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Pilots and athletes: the 'adventure' factor

By John Helyar
ESPN.com

Thursday, October 12, 2006

Had he played a different game, Cory Lidle might not have been in the plane that crashed into a high-rise in New York City on Wednesday. In some professional sports, athletes are barred from being pilots. The NBA's uniform player contract, for example, expressly forbids "operating an aircraft." But in other sports, by contrast, athletes routinely double as pilots. Tony Stewart, Matt Kenseth and Greg Biffle all fly themselves around the Nextel Cup circuit. In either event, the very qualities th ...

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