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Athletes getting
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standard in the courts

he story jumps out at you
from the newspaper: “Star
Athlete caught with drugs!”

Or “All-Star admits to beating
wife!” Let's consider these two
headlines without the professional
athlete quality. They would be
buried somewhere near the end of
the news séction, to be read and
forgotten along with the rest of
the minor crime stories we are
bombarded with daily. However, it
seems that the media is obsessed
with the trivial misdemeanors of
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We probably wouldn't even make
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above, we would probably be
buried as a blurb on the last page
of the news section. Then, when
said athlete is convicted and given
a “slap on the wrist,’ various”
special interest groups complain
about the “double standard” of
the sentences “ordinary” people
and professional athletes receive.

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First, athletes are ordinary people.
If you cut them do they not bleed?
Second, what about the double
standard of coverage these athletes
get compared to “ordinary”
people? No wonder the

judges\ juries in these cases give
such light sentences, anybody
angered by their favorite star being
put behind bars could find the
people who made the sentence
decision and make their lives...
unpleasant. Take, for example, the
OJ Simpson case. How could the
jury not find OJ not guilty? Most
of them probably realized
(correctly) that if they found Mr.
Simpson guilty, anyone who
“disagreed” with their decision
could find each one of them and
“voice their displeasure.”

If the public wants to complain
about the “double standard” of
the sentences that athletes receive,
they must also look at their desire
for the sensationalist journalism
that splashes athletes’ trials on the
front page of the sports, instead
of quietly reporting the arrest and
the sentencing without the tabloid
coverage.

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