[7thson]

What I am very tired of hearing are the sports writers that excuse this behavior and say you cannot deprive these young men from making a living. No one is depriving them from making a living. You want to play ball - either start your own league or go play in Europe. You want to fight - be a boxer! If someone embezzles money from a bank, goes to prison for a few years, and comes out, do you think any bank will hire him? Yet, no one is depriving him of making a living. There are many ways to make a living. Getting back to B-Ball, these fine upstanding athletes, how many of them graduated from college. Don't they have a degree? Can't they make a living on what they majored in?

Ahh, but that's the dirty little secret. Most of us know that the majority of these athletes - black or white - are about as smart as a rock! You can hear it when they speak, how they act, how they treat others!

This crap did not happen years ago and sports such as basketball, football, and baseball have always been a poor mans sport. Not to many millionaires are playing these games as kids. Mostly because it is a way for someone with special abilities to break away and from the poverty they come from - whether it is the coal mines, the cotten fields, the steel mills, the factories, the ghetto. Yet, players did not act like thise for the most part. Now, with million dollar salaries, we expect better. Yet, they still act like punks and gangsters.

[JesseJane]

Now, with million dollar salaries, we expect better.

I expect people to act civilized, and shunned when they don't. That goes in politics too... look at the screaming political pundits on CrossFire etc. Our society has lowered the bar so far, its time to jerk it back.

Example of Lawrence O'Donnell losing his mind and screaming LIAR over and over at John O'Neil recently. THAT should've been grounds for termination on the spot. The lack of decent ADULT behavior on 'Court Shows' seemed to spiral out of control back in the OJ days.. We've allowed this to continue... and now it's time to put a stop to it.

Sports is probably the most obvious place that a zero tolerance plan would be effective at changing behaviors right down the line.

Sports have rules to deal with infractions. That's it. You don't need someone to make a movie about it. You don't need to flap you gums to the media after the game. Especially if you can not effectively speak the English language. That TOO is something teams should consider. THIS GUY IS A GRADUATE OF WHAT COLLEGE?? Please, fire the professors and tear up the degree. What a sham.