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Old Mon May 02, 2005, 06:32am
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Originally posted by Jimgolf
There are sweatbands designed to be worn around the bicep. These first came out a few years ago, and were made popular when Ben Wallace started getting attention.

Why does everyone assume these are wristbands pulled up? Regular wristbands are not elastic enough to be pulled over an athlete's bicep, except maybe Reggie Miller.
If this is the case, then there is absolutely no rule support to make high schooler's take them off, or pull them down.

I took an unofficial poll this weekend. Although, approximatly 40% of the starting line-ups for the teams that I saw this weekend wore wristbands. I found only two players(Reggie and Mike Miller) who wore them on their wrists. That speaks to what I was talking about in my earlier post concerning a widely accepted practice. It is not nearly this bad in the NCAA level, yet. However, I think high schooler's tend to try to emulate the pros, rather than the college kids.
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