Dallas Mavericks basketball players undergo $5,000 physicals twice a year: a group wants all high school athletes to do similarly extensive physicals. “Mavs undergo stress tests, echocardiograms, stress echoes, body scans, the works . . .
. . . Putting aside moral and ethical issues, it just makes good business sense at the pro level. Fortune 500 companies submit their top-level executives to extensive physicals, and they don’t make any more than most of these athletes.”






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