Football

NYT commemorates 25th anniversary of '90 draft 

To commemorate the 25th anniversary of the 1990 NFL draft, The New York Times last week examined the lives of those men selected in the first round of the ’90 draft. It revealed that former Arizona All-Pac-10 linebacker Chris Singleton attempted to kill himself last year and that he had declared bankruptcy and gone through a divorce. The newspaper further reported that Arizona’s dominating defensive end of the 1990 draft, Anthony Smith, has been in jail in Los Angeles since 2011 on a murder charge. He is awaiting a new trail. Singleton, who was a superior player and, in my opinion, one of the most stand-up UA football players I’ve ever encountered, has since turned his life around. He is remarried and lives in Phoenix. 


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