From: Los Angeles Times
Football players are smart, in their own way
July 11, 2011
Los Angeles Times:
Christian Tupou is a student-athlete. He plays football, and more specifically he plays defensive tackle.
The combination of these simple traits traps USC’s Tupou in a series of stereotypes that thrust him to the bottom of the intellectual scale at a top-tier university.
But listening to Tupou talk and watching him show his football skills muddies the water. The starting redshirt senior has boatloads of athletic intelligence in addition to school smarts.
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