OhaR MHAF MH fe rtAe by Gene Siudut Lance Arms ex-Tour de Fra all-around sna lic relations ca what is left of Armstrong, mitted to usin enhancing dru ing and a whi park full of recently appeal clusive intervi Winfrey where most of his ma the contrition on an elk. Or as my say, "He wasn' sorry he got ca Armstrong i in the disturb of so-called ro celebrities who the theory tha screw up and ness than it is thing in the firs Knowing we nation, people take advantage but I am drawi can forgive, b forget. Most ii need to stop rc people after del ior, just becau ted it. Whether the: steroid-user A celebrity amat Kim Kardashia New York G Spitzer, too mi given the ability run afoul of so tions and get brave or courage sorry after they It's time we c a cheater. I dor strong is' sorr tween him and do care that he for his accuser- and litigiously. I don't care used steroids a cheated and he more than me I've ever met co To put this imagine if a mi his wife, -but h did it for a little think everything: cool? Of course Oh, how I days of recreate in sports. There when the bigge. that Darryl St Dwight Gooder cocaine. It's act that those two as they were co the only perform Enhancing Performance strong,' shamed enhances is the ability to talk that can be nan since winner and non-stop for hours. come a nation t] ike, is on a pub- Today, a coke scandal cheating becai impaign to save would probably be welcomed else is doing-it. his name. with the joy of a father wel- If I rememi who finally ad- coming his newborn child, one of the first g performance- This is because people can learned was to igs, blood dop-- understand and forgive some- something beca ole amusement one wanting to be high or else was doing bad. behavior, drunk. They can't identify it's very difficult ared in an ex- with cheaters, an adult, I know ew with Oprah How does the sports world That's not he admitted to overcome this? Simple. No tol- speeding on the lfeasances with erance. the flow of-traff of a lion dining If someone gets caught ing the rules. or admits to using a perfor- more out of mother would mance enhancing drug, he or We have estab t sorry, he was she should be banned from ties for speeding ught." the sport, without pay. Case the risk versus is just another closed. In the extremely un- It's OK to speech )ingly long line likely event that someone ticket doesn't re )le models and took a drug that contained a pended license. have adopted banned substance unknow- it did? Would g At it's better to ingly; an independent arbitra- flow of traffic be ask for forgive- tor could conduct the investi- that point? to do the right gation, and act accordingly. Our professi st place.. At least the punishment fits earn our hard-e. are a forgiving the crime in that instance. If a A-Rod's ability like Armstrong man got caught cheating at a or Lance Armst of our nature, casino, do you think he'd be to ride a, bike ng the line. We allowed back in or banned? If meaningless in t )ut we cannot an employee got caught steal- events of most importantly, we ing from the company, would It's time we stop] rewarding these he be slapped on the wrist or their bad behave plorable behav- fired? the honest played se they admit- To show how backwards they deserve. Major League Baseball is, Pete Now, we just y are admitted- Rose, the all-time hits leader, some honest pla lex Rodriguez, is- banned from baseball for Contact Gene :eur-porn star betting on the, sport when he lagacetanewspal an or shamed .was a manager. He can't get governor Eliot in the Hall of Fame and can't any people are perform any baseball-related y to knowingly duties. city's conven- His nickname was Charlie rewarded as Hustle because of how fero- eous for saying ciously he played the game, "" are caught. but baseball, worried about calledd a cheater its image, could not stand for n't care if Arm- a gambler tarnishing the in-: y. That's be- tegrity of the sport. I his maker. I Well, what about the cheat- made life hell ers? Barry Bonds, Mark McG- s both publicly wire and a whole generation of players were reported steroid if A-Rod only users, but they are still eligi- little. He still ble for the Hall of Fame. still gets paid These players take the risk and everyone because the punishments are mbined. minimal and the rewards are . in perspective, massive. A player can use an cheated on steroids, inflate his stats, get (5 e said he only a big contract, get caught while. Do you cheating and never be held g would still be accountable financially for his it wouldn't. decision. long for the Not to say this is just a ional drug use baseball issue or a cycling re was a time issue. The other sports just st scandal was haven't been outed yet. To rawberry and think that there hasn't been n were using a major steroid scandal in ually a miracle football in recent memory is were as good almost scary. Same goes for )nsidering that hockey, basketball, swimming mance cocaine and almost any other sport In Context By Doris Weatherford (continued from page 15) 400,000 petition signatures against slavery. Moreover, they charged a penny per signature and thus had enough money to main- tain a New York headquarters. Given that women's organiza- tions still were seen as radi- cally new even church-spon- scored missionary societies were controversial this was an important step on the way to -full equality for both blacks and women. 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