So far this year of 2008 we have seen alot in the world of sports.
We have seen a woman win her first Indy Car race. Finaly a door knocked down proving gender is not an issue in race car driving, that winning just comes down to team work and good driving skills.
On the college side of off season football we have seen players arrested, suspended and by LSU coach Les Miles kicked off teams for actions that digrace the athlete and his school.
The most notable to me, the player from the Florida Gators using a dead womans credit card. The way the story reads, he had to have been at the scene of her wreck and stolen the credit card off her dead body or from her purse.
When are todays college athletes going to learn, the rules apply to them like they do everyone else? Why cant they see what they throw away with these criminal actions.
I salute the Bob Stoops and Les Miles of the world, they put their own reputation, that of their school and the team above prima donna football players that can harm the the school bringing down the wrath of the NCAA. They have kicked off starters for infractions that violate only NCAA rules to criminal actions.
Barry Bonds troubles dont seem to go away. Now we have a crooked pro basketball ref becoming a celebrity while making accusations against the NBA.
Judging from the officiating during these play offs, the ref does have credibilty. would the NBA do as he suggests, making the playoffs run longer, generating more dollars at the gate and on tv, in todays world of sports it seems so.
Sports should be a bastion for honest athletic competition not what in many cases what it has become today.
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