"Good Morning,
I just read your article in the Albuquerque Journal entitled: "Lawbreaking Athletes Get Unfair Breaks." You are so correct. However no one seems to put blame on the owners of the clubs that continue to employ these thugs and criminals. If the owners immediately fired these criminals and no other club picked them up, they would be broke in no time. Then they would become ordinary criminals who could not afford fancy lawyers and therefore would probably serve due time. So, the owners need to share a big part of this problem. Owners care only about winning-at any cost."

" very overdue and perceptive article. Thanks!

Now, how about pursuing this topic further? The problems with athletes behavior, their expectations of special treatment and their assumption of privilege, begin very early in their lives. Professional basketball scouts are building resumes of 6th grade players, football scouts are watching junior highschool players and some highschools "recruit" athletes with inducements and special treatment.

An analysis and critique of this emphasis on athletics instead of education in schools and our society is overdue.

Thanks again for an excellent article."

"I agree completely with your comments, if anything, you were too kind to these creeps. Stallworth is just the latest and most visible athlete to buy his way out of legal difficulties. The news is full of college football players abusing or raping their dates or worse yet, uninvolved women. What usually happens is that the alumnis either pressure the police/district attorneys and/or pay the victim off to keep their beloved athlete on the playing field. Pretty nauseating and even worse that a so called institute of higher learning would tolerate this sickening behavior. The colleges and universities tolerance of the laughable educational performance of their athletic team members is bad enough but pales to insignificant when compared to their acceptance of criminal behavior.

I am amazed when blue collar workers go to see baseball games, pay for the outrageous parking fees, ticket prices, programs and food only to see someone like Alex Rodriguez making $300K for a double header, maybe 5-6X what they do in a year and they're comfortable with it all. I bet they think some board certified doctor with 4 yrs of college, 4 yrs of med school and 4-6 yrs of followon training charges too much for an office visit.

This nonsense is certainly not limited to athletes. In addition to Chappaquiddick, where it is obvious that the Kennedy money bought off the victim's family, Teddy has been involved in more than one incident in the past where he laid his blubbery carcass on top of some unwilling Washington DC waitress. He escaped sexual assault charges on several occasions, probably again, applying the salve of money to the victim.

In Hollywood, we have the sickening spectacle of judges letting celebrities off with pathetically mild judgments that would have you or I in serious difficulty. Robert Downey Jr. comes to mind. He's been into so many rehab sessions that he should have been thrown in prison long ago yet when he gets out of his comfortable treatment facility, the sycophants in Hollywood welcome him home with open arms and another lucrative contract. Wonder if the judges ask for his autograph after the exceptionally lenient sentencing? "