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The Cost of a Free Ride – Ask Brandon Jacobs
April 30, 2012 The late Steve Fredericks, a sports talk legend in Philadelphia, once told me that when an athlete gives a reporter his cell phone number, he has that reporter in his pocket. A former hockey player and broadcaster told me some players would play the reporters by cuddling up to them to get positive stories and also avoid negative ones. Since sports began, athletes have been using people for jobs, sex, and in Brandon Jacobs' case, a free ride.
