Sport is that child we raised with money but not love, who we allowed to grow up amid privilege but no values except to win at all costs. The child has grown up, out of control, in a culture of cheating: of steroids and illegal taping, of embarrassing conduct off the field.
Now add to that a potential racial divide over punishment, with Jones unceremoniously carted away, with Bonds up next, and with Clemens, a bigger-than-life Texan with some bigger-than-life friends, hoping to emerge unscathed by the law.
Earl Ward, an African-American who is one of Brian McNamee’s lawyers, directly addressed the issue of color Thursday, noting that “several people of color have been caught up in the steroids scandal” and that if Clemens is left uninvestigated, “it would send the entirely wrong message to African-Americans.” Ward is a paid adversary of Clemens, of course, but what he is saying, many others are thinking.
One of them seemed to be Cummings. “I don’t want kids to think that because of their circumstances, if they do something wrong they’ll get punished and someone else will not be punished because of where they live or how they look,” he said. “That’s not the message we want to send to our children.”
This was an important week for sportsmanship and, hopefully, justice. Let’s not have an ending where the home run king strikes out but the power pitcher never even has to take the mound.
What was refreshing about the Giants winning was you had a coach who was a few months ago was on the verge of being fired. He took his team on the road and one against the odds.
You had a quarterback who was the little brother playing in the shadows of his older brother. he didn't have the drop dead beauty model for a g/f.
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