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Message: [QUOTE="MD#12Fan, post: 4510428, member: 8636"] These are World-Class Athletes, not porcelain dolls. Choices and courses of action are made and taken everyday at UConn with the best interest of these athletes as priority. Please pay attention. At a time of such great inspiration for what this team is achieving under the circumstances, you are shutting things down. Why? These 7 players are having the absolute time of their lives. This year will be forever etched in their collective memories. The bonds they are cementing each moment of this season will be everlasting. This is basketball. A contact sport to be sure. A sport with rules and a code of ethics. A sport that has been deemed safe to play without padding. Accidents happen, injuries happen, players are put on the shelf, players return, everything proceeds from there. This is not the Roman Colloseum with lions and gladiators. This isn't Rollerball. Or Hunger Games. Or even football. I am into this team. It's a great story. I am also sad (empathetic like a fellow poster reminded me of the other day) for the pain and missed opportunities of the injured players but.... Talking about army recruiting slogans yesterday, who wouldn't go to war with these young women . [/QUOTE]