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Re:How and Why Athletes Go Broke (2009) by majormajor on Friday February 09, 2018 @03:52PM (#16343730)
Seems pretty anecdotal. Hockey tends to get less press in general than baseball, so I know of a lot more broke white baseball players than broke white hockey players. There's some broke white golfers out there too, that's another money-requiring sport.

Any broke Formula 1 race drivers or tennis players? That's where you'd really look for athletes coming from wealthy families, I think.

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Re:How and Why Athletes Go Broke (2009) by brewdad on Friday February 09, 2018 @10:00PM (#16345602)
Anecdotally, I majored in economics at a large public school with a (at the time) national championship caliber hockey team. All of the players on that team that made it to the NHL attended the same classes I did. Most did come from privileged backgrounds but at least one grew up in the projects of Toronto. The coach strongly encouraged his players to take at least a few classes that would give them some financial grounding.
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Re:How and Why Athletes Go Broke (2009) by Kluny on Friday February 09, 2018 @04:55PM (#16344182)
In Canada it's different - our sports press is all hockey, all the time. Granted I don't pay much attention to it, but if any sports news makes it to my news feed, it probably is going to be about atheletes going bankrupt.
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