Scholar

Myron Rolle isn’t like most former football players. He isn’t like most people. It tends to be that way for the former Rhodes Scholar who played at Florida State and … Continue reading

As scores of college football players anxiously await their fates between now and next week’s three-day NFL draft, former Florida State safety Myron Rolle bides his time in anticipation of … Continue reading

When Myron Rolle was trying to make a decision — go to the NFL and play professional football or go to Oxford and be a Rhodes Scholar? — he heard … Continue reading

As many of you know, I was released by the Tennessee Titans at the beginning of this football season. I thoroughly enjoyed my year spent with the team and the … Continue reading

OTL: Great Expectations

Neurosurgeon…..NFL First Rounder……’The future of Black America’……..this 23 year-old Rhodes Scholar is expected to be all things to all people.

Rolle a Rhodes Scholar, future NFL player … and man smashing stereotypes.

Myron Rolle put off an NFL career to spend a year as a Rhodes scholar. But his year at Oxford University is doubling as a one-man marketing experiment – can his career as a pitchman start a year before his career as a player?

Sports Illustrated will announce its choice for Sportsman of the Year on Nov. 30. Here’s one of the nominations for that honor by an SI writer. Tell us what you think.