Nice link, nice story. I can’t believe 20 people comment on Saddam but no one has commented on a football post. I’ll give it the old college try.

Remember Ted Williams? Writers just fall all over themselves praising him for interrupting his pro career to serve as a Marine during Korea. And Ted had a nice-paying job to come back to.

Yet hundreds of talented Mormon college athletes do the equivalent of that every year, with no guarantee of coming home with their health and talent intact. It’s nice the ESPN writer figured out these athlete-missionaries generally give up more than they get. We wish them the best–in the field and on the field.