Pro Football Player Spends the Offseason in Front of a College Classroom

Hank Baskett, a wide receiver for the National Football League’s Philadelphia Eagles, is spending his offseason teaching a sociology course at Clovis Community College in New Mexico. Baskett, who holds a degree in business management from the University of New Mexico, is teaching an elective called Sociology of Sport. Topics that will be covered are the business of sports, violence in sports, and the role parents play in the lives of student athletes.

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