SPORTS MAIL.

Byline: The Register-Guard

Quit your griping

LaMichael James was a scholarship football player for three years. He got an education, food, housing plus whatever else. These amounted to thousands of dollars. He got exposure to the NFL, which will probably be worth millions of dollars because he played football for the University of Oregon. Then why is he complaining about the sale of his jersey, which the university owns, for $700? Hey, La Mike, quit the gripe and stop to "smell the roses"!

RICHARD HILL

Cottage Grove

Go Beaver wrestlers

I would like to congratulate the Oregon State wrestling team on a great season before too much time passes. The Beaver wrestlers won a Pac-12 title, placed 10th at the NCAAs and had the Pac-12 coach of the year in Jim Zalesky. They had three all-Americans with Clayton Jack placing fourth, Mike Mangrum placing fifth and Scott Sakaguchi placing seventh. Great job Beaver wrestling team! I am rooting for OSU to win an NCAA title so that the University of Oregon will have even more incentive to do the right thing and reinstate wrestling. I am still holding out hope that this will happen someday. Until then I'll be cheering for OSU wrestling.

KEVIN LIST

Eugene

Think about the future

Note to University of Oregon athletes: perhaps the reason you're bored is because you don't read "books".

Why don't you guys try to emulate the real athletes at your school (the cross country and track and field teams) and use your paid-by-the-public five or six years of college to actually learn something that will help you in your after-sports life? After all, on a good year, maybe three or four of you will be drafted by a pro team, and only one in 10 of those drafted will be paid to play games for more than three or four years.

You guys aren't always going to be 21 and "special". Give some thought to what you will be doing when you're 35.

JAMIE SELKO

Eugene

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