Lack of loyalty in sports doesn't take sides

0 Comments | USA TODAY, July, 2004 | by Larry Weisman

Looking for loyalty in sports today?

Try the Hall of Fame, where it molders with the other relics of bygone times. Or the deepest corners of the imagination, where the concept was conjured, nurtured and thought to be almost real.

Ricky Williams quits a week before training camp, leaving the Miami Dolphins without their best offensive player. Eddie George sweats blood for the Tennessee Titans for eight years and is released when he won't take a pay cut. Carlos Boozer leads the Cleveland Cavaliers to believe he will sign a new contract and then does -- with the Utah Jazz. Roger Clemens announces his retirement, accepts the lovely parting gifts that come during his farewell tour with the New York Yankees, then joins the Houston Astros.

Loyalty. In sports? Where...