re: Iowa Gazette: Iowa, LSU Come from Very Different..

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Playa is beach in Spanish. How does this fit here at all? Doesn't.

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That is exactly how I read the comment. I thought, "We don't have Florida beaches down here." Then I slowly figured out that the upper Midwesterner was attempting a slang of "player," meaning one who can play.

The writer may be picking up on the fact that our young people tend to work harder to hone their skills. They do realize that every player on LSU's roster has worked and trained their butts off to be good, don't they?

Our Southern so called "gifted athletes" receive their "gifts" by putting in thousands of hours of hard physical and mental work. Do they not understand this?