Cheney softball puts the student with the athlete

Short column this time around, and for good reason. This Crunch Time is designed to highlight one of the good aspects of amateur sports.

We call them student-athletes, not athletic-students. There’s a reason for that — namely the student part comes first and is most important.

I think we forget that sometimes. We focus on the athlete when it comes to high school and college sports. After all, it’s that part of their role that gets the limelight — most times for the good, every now and then the not-so-good.

But for the most part, it’s getting an education that is these individuals’ primary focu...