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Sporting Heroes As Role Models, Richard C. Crepeau
Sporting Heroes As Role Models, Richard C. Crepeau
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Charles Barkley has been in our face now for several weeks with a commercial for one of those tiresome shoe companies in which he announces: "I am not a role model. I am not paid to be a role model... parents should be role models...I am paid to wreak havoc on a basketball court. Just because I can dunk a basketball doesn't mean I should raise your kids."