Honoring Sports Heroes While They’re Still with Us

Fred, Art, Mark and Laura Snoke can’t wrap their heads around the high salaries of college athletic personnel after the raise UCLA athletic director Martin Jarmond received after a so-so sports year. Why are non-athletic department educators expected to survive on substantially less? With the passing of baseball elder statesman Rocky Colavito, the long-awaited HoF induction of Dave Parker, and multiple cancer diagnoses of other players, how long is too long to wait to honor sports legends? And will Deion Sanders make team rebuilding a family affair?