Staff Reporter, Wall Street Journal
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Which Way, L.A.?
NFL's Myron Rolle Chooses Scholarship over Sponsorship After star quarterback Michel Vick's prison term for dog fighting , the National Football League is overdue for image enhancement. So, consider Michael Rolle , who in less than three years at Florida State, earned a 3.75 grade-point average and All-America honors as a defensive back. In delaying entry into the NFL to spend a year as a Rhodes scholar at Oxford, it's estimated he gave up $8 million. But he's already embarked on "a one-man marketing experiment" according to Lee Hawkins of the Wall Street Journal .
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NFL's Myron Rolle Chooses Scholarship over Sponsorship After star quarterback Michel Vick's prison term for dog fighting , the National Football League is overdue for image enhancement. So, consider Michael Rolle , who in less than three years at Florida State, earned a 3.75 grade-point average and All-America honors as a defensive back. In delaying entry into the NFL to spend a year as a Rhodes scholar at Oxford, it's estimated he gave up $8 million. But he's already embarked on "a one-man marketing experiment" according to Lee Hawkins of the Wall Street Journal .
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