Woman gets banned from NCAA tennis for posing nude for Playboy.
Truthseeker
http://sports.yahoo.com/ten/news/ap/20000910/ap-suspendedathlete.html
"September 10, 2000
HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (AP) -- A University of Alabama-Huntsville
tennis player has been declared ineligible by the NCAA because she
was paid for posing nude.
Roseleena Blair, a 19-year-old sophomore from Honolulu, did the
photo shoot in June for ``Sexy Girls In Sports,'' a Playboy
publication.
``This is very unfortunate,'' Alabama-Huntsville athletic director Jim
Harris said. ``She just made a simple error in judgment. When I
talked to her she didn't have an idea what she did was a violation of
an NCAA rule.''
Blair was suspended as soon as school officials learned of the photo
shoot, Harris said.
Blair said she had done some modeling in the past, but this was the
first time she had modeled nude. She refused to comment further.
Harris said Blair will participate in an educational workshop for
student-athletes on rules and regulations next week. Harris said the
school will seek to have Blair reinstated before the spring semester."
Give me a break. I can't believe this puritanical American bullshit. Only in
America, the nation of Conservative Christian Fundamentalists.
So... are there any pictures of Roseleena Blair anywhere on the internet? :)
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Donal Fagan
unknown@unknown says...
"A University of Alabama-Huntsville tennis player
has been declared ineligible by the NCAA because she
was paid for posing nude."
>Give me a break. I can't believe this puritanical
>American bullshit. Only in America, the nation of
>Conservative Christian Fundamentalists.
This isn't necessarily puritanism. She wouldn't
have been in the shoot if she wasn't an athlete.
NCAA players are not supposed to profit from being
an athlete. Of course, many do have jobs and perks
arranged for them.
If she had a part-time job as a stripper or lap
dancer, with no reference to her athletic pursuits,
I would think that the NCAA wouldn't have a case.
Raptor
>
> Give me a break. I can't believe this puritanical American bullshit. Only in
> America, the nation of Conservative Christian Fundamentalists.
NCAA rules can be very strict. I've never dug into them myself, but
I've heard that it's illegal to even hold a part-time job under certain
circumstances. There are many who think the rules should be relaxed to
discourage early exits from college to professional sports.
Of course, the state in question being Alabama (the Bible Belt), it's
certainly possible that it was the nature of the work that got the girl
tossed off the team.
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Only in
> > America, the nation of Conservative Christian Fundamentalists.
>
> NCAA rules can be very strict. I've never dug into them myself, but
> I've heard that it's illegal to even hold a part-time job under certain
> circumstances. There are many who think the rules should be relaxed to
> discourage early exits from college to professional sports.
>
> Of course, the state in question being Alabama (the Bible Belt), it's
> certainly possible that it was the nature of the work that got the girl
> tossed off the team.
yeah ... it maybe an unfair bias, but I have the impression that those
rules are violated and/or skirted pretty routinely ... certainly, using
one's status as an amateur to make money while still an amateur is
questionable; but ALL those athletes are hoping to cash in eventually, so
it's a bit hypocritical
personally, I've always thought that if the NFL, NBA, etc. are gonna use
the athletics programs of public institutions as farm team programs, they
ought to cover the cost of training those athletes ... it's ridiculous to
me that higher education institutions have any phys ed activities that are
not intramurals ... libraries get their budgets cut, but football teams
get new stadiums ... absurd ... and I know that alums cough up the bucks
for better libraries when the home team does well, but how about ending
the public subsidy of pro sports farm teams, and using subsidies from the
NFL et al. to pay for those libraries???
plus, I've seen full scholarship college athletes who have no business
being in college getting free tutoring, which they almost have to have
shoved down their throats, while classmates who are working their asses
off just to be in school have to pay through the nose for tutoring
assistance ... I've seen this up close and personal, and it sucks ... tell
me that getting free tutoring isn't a form of obtaining financial benefit
from being an "amateur" athlete