Archive for July 20th, 2008

Ty Willingham on the ESPYs (Updated with video)

Sunday, July 20th, 2008

Constable Echelon

Remember those Mike Krzyzewski American Express commercials that served primarily to promote Duke basketball to recruits? Plenty of ACC rivals and general Duke haters decried the ads as an unfair recruiting advantage given to a celebrity coach. Sunday night on the ESPYs UW received a similar side benefit when Ty Willingham was featured in the human interest piece on John Carlos and Tommie Smith’s fist raising protest from the 1968 Mexico City Olympics.

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