The Politics of Sports

What's going on with sports today. We currently live in what I like to call the dark era
Of sports. An era in which we hear more about steroids, ejections, sex scandels and dog-
Fighting, the any homerun, 3 pointer, or touchdown. What I don't understand is the "punish-
Ment" that these players receive. We already know that athletes and celbrities already get
The best of the law (although sports memoribilia companies enslave women to make their
Products But nt one talks about that) some of the punishment for players is insane.
I would first like To touch football.

As we all know, Michael Vick, former qb of the atlanta falcons was convicted of criminal
Charges of dogfighting and received almost 2 years in jail. Not only that, he name has
Been tarnished by the media and his credibility has been a facade of what it was when he
Was scoring touchdowns. He allowed someone who didn't have his best inteeest in mind,
Affect his future.

Now, let's talk about Donte Stallworth, WR of the Cleveland Browns. This man consumes
Alochol to the point where he bac is above the legal limit, drives and kills a person.
In comparison to vick, the ball was in his court, he couldve done other methods to prevent
The death. Vick did the dogfighting for money, stallworth was just drunk. He struck and
Killed a man...KILLED!! His sentence...30 days, house arrest and an indefinite suspension.
Stallworth was also spared of the media thrashing of his name....

Does anyone see what is wrong here??? You would kill a man and get a lesser sentence than
A man who contributed in dogfighting. Nonthelkess if each man wasn't famous they wouldve
Had more stricter sentwnces. However I think the NFL shouldve not be lenient to the
Stallworth incident. He killed a man, and inevitably will still play in the NFL, but no
One really knew the timeline of when or if Vick was coming back.this is one instance
Where politics do play a role in sport.

I'm going to make this a series of blogs...stay tuned for my part 2 of this, when I talk
About the steroid era in baseball..