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SAN JOSE, Calif. Jeremy Lin Hawks Jersey . -- San Jose States womens basketball program was placed on probation for one year and fined $5,000 because a former coach conducted impermissible offseason activities and allowed an ineligible player to practice.The NCAA announced the penalties Wednesday and issued a one-year show-cause order for former coach Tim La Kose that places restrictions on his ability to be hired by another school. La Kose resigned in 2013 soon after San Jose State learned of the violations.The NCAA determined that La Kose conducted offseason practices that violated rules and allowed a student who was not academically qualified to practice during her year in residence. La Kose told investigators he was unaware the unidentified player practiced even though he had invited her to do so and watched some of the sessions. Spud Webb Jersey . That gave fans outside Joe Louis Arena another chance to ask for autographs from the 19-year-old whose stardom in the NHL has arrived earlier than most expected. Jeremy Lin Jersey . JOHNS, N. https://www.thehawkslockerroom.com/Pete-...Edition-Jersey/ . LOUIS -- The New Orleans Saints looked like a team playing out the string. In his story for Tuesday, ESPN.com writer Bill Barnwell set out to find the best American athlete for every year since 1912, awarding the Best American Athlete Championship Belt to the person who won the year.The results? Babe Ruth held the title as best American athlete for 10 years, while Tiger Woods came away with six titles, Michael Jordan had five-and-a-half, and Muhammad Ali had four. Check out the criteria and results here.Heres your chance to weigh in: Who is the most accomplished American athlete ever?For the record, here are Barnwells thoughts on the topic:Michael Phelps is the greatest American athlete of all time. Hes the greatest Olympian of all time and its not particularly close: Phelps has 23 gold medals and nobody else has more than nine. The idea that the number of events in swimming inflates Phelps statistics doesnt really hold much muster. If it were that easy, why havent any swimmers before or after Phelps come close to matching Phelps totals? Ian Thorpe, the best swimmer in the world in the era immediately preceding Phelps, won five golds. Mattt Biondi ended up with eight. Chandler Parsons jersey. . Jenny Thompson, the most decorated Olympic female swimmer in history, also won eight. Spitz won nine. He might have won more had he kept swimming after the 1972 Olympics, but he didnt.If Phelps was narrowly ahead of the competition -- if he had 10 or 11 gold medals -- maybe the inflation case would hold up. But 23 to nine is a landslide. Nobody has won four gold medals in a single Olympics more than once. Phelps has done it four times. Nobody won eight medals in a boycott-free Olympics before Phelps. He did it twice, both in these 2004 Olympics and again in 2008. To the extent that we can compare athletes across different sports, Phelps has dominated swimming in a way that no other American athlete has dominated his or her sport at the highest level over a longer period of time. And if youre not picking Phelps because its impossible to make those kinds of comparisons, you cant pick anybody else. ' ' '