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REPORTING FROM: ADIDAS TRACK AND FIELD CLASSIC IN LOS ANGELES

By Luke Cyphers

Monday, May 19, 2008

The whole O.J. Mayo mess, and its exposure of the NCAAšs zombie amateurism rules, feels just a little bit foreign to America's track and field athletes9even one just a week removed from finals. When Bianca Knight, one of the country's top young sprinters, wanted to turn professional, she didn't have to wait until she was 20, or until she was two years removed from high school, or for the moon to be at apogee and the planets to be aligned during a Year of the Rat. She just did it when she thou ...

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