ATHLETES

A growing number of athletes using their hair as self-expression and to develop a unique and marketable persona. In a curious reversal of roles, it's the super macho men of sports who are primping and preening far more than the lady jocks. It's impossible to watch a sporting event these days without seeing male athletes with dreadlocks, Afros, cornrows, braids, ponytails, spikes, sweaty Tarzan tresses or shaggy skater boyz 'dos.