“I think track is still one of the most exciting participant sports, but we haven't been able to capitalize on that excitement through television and the print media.”
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There are almost no sports within which mortal accidents are not a reality.
Movies, TV, sports, come and go, but what you stand for is what people remember. Mandela, Martin Luther King, John Kennedy are people who really stood for something and were willing to die for it. You don't see a whole lot of that any more.
We should reach out to people to try to go after the fans the way other sports do. Because we can't just depend on the fact that it is a great game.
I think it is that parents just don't kick their kids out the door as much as they used to. I think the demise of sandlot sports has had a lot to do with it.