The following guest article was written by long-time Denver Stiffs reader and comment moderator, Mancar. The views expressed are his own. DenverStiffs.com's own Jeff Morton has written about this topic before in his excellent piece titled "Sometimes you have to sit to make a stand." More recently, our own Mike Olson wrote about "the NBA as an agent for change."
Money and entertainment. That is all sports are, right? Contracts, sponsorships, winning and losing, and shoe deals and living the high life is what we know of sports. When players go against this mold they seem to be upsetting a fragile establishment within sports.