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Sports can be medicine, but they can also devastate someone’s life. On one hand, sports can motivate society to change, to learn to evolve and grow. Then, there is the other hand where sports cause some to believe they are so powerful over others they become seduced into thinking nothing can happen to them for crossing the line.

It happens in professional, college and high school sports. It happens in Little League sports. We see the scandals in the papers and ask how did this happen. . . . the University of North Carolina’s academic scandal, the point shaving scandal in men’s college basketball during the 1970s (BCU), the betting on professional baseball by Pete Rose, receiving improper gifts (Marcus Camby – UMASS), the rampant performance enhancement drugs scandals in the NFL, tennis and the Olympics.

But these scandals are not just caused by the players. Scandals are also created by the administrators of sports organizations, universities, sports agencies, coaches and owners. Just take a look at Jim Irsay (alcohol), Michigan State University regarding Larry Nassar (sexual assault on over a hundred female athletes), The Ohio State University regarding ex-coach Zach Smith (football – domestic violence) and ex-coach William Bohonyi (diving – sexual assault), Jerry Jones (stance against anthem protest), Donald Sterling (NBA-racist rant), FIFA (collusion/racketeering), U.S. Soccer (equal pay), U.S. Olympic Committee (child endangerment), Brian Z. France, the CEO of NASCAR (drugs), both the NFL and NHL (concussion/CTE dangers) and the list goes on. Then, there are sports agents infractions like Lloyd Lake, Tank Black and Terry Watson for improper gifts and handling of affairs.

Society seems to be amazed that these things are going on, but where is society when it comes to the checks and balances of our sports organizations? If we place such a high value on these programs and organizations, then shouldn’t we be making sure those organizations are holding our values and are acting in an ethical manner? Instead, it is as though we are absorb into our individual religions of sport and lay down the tithes undeserving to programs, clubs and leagues who mock what we say we truly believe.

We say we believe in keeping children safe, but we are not making sure our college students and youth are protected by pedophiles, rapists and bad coaches. We become disgusted by athletes who use P.E.D.s to provide us the entertainment we seek every Saturday and Sunday, but merely tap on the wrist owners and sports administrators who are caught using drugs. A good chunk of us become angry at athletes using their God-given platform (talent is God-given) to help us evolve, but say little to nothing when athletes are blacklisted (Eric Reid and Colin Kaepernick) by owners or owners have the audacity to enslave athletes’ freedoms of protest and speech.

In a female examination by male doctor in gynecology, there is always a female nurse attending as well. So, why don’t we do that in sports? Why aren’t there female coaches as well as male coaches for both male and female programs to prevent sexual assaults or pressure by coaches? Why aren’t there mandatory alcohol and drug testing and courses for athletes, coaches and administrators at all levels administered more frequently? Or, maybe we should stop stressing drug enforcement of athletes so athletes like Maria Sharapova and Ryan Lochte are penalized for insane reasons.

Sports is medicine, but sometimes medicine goes bad and you have to go the pharmacy to pick up a fresh prescription. Maybe, it is time to get a fresh prescription for how we handle the scandals in sports. Or, better yet, maybe it is time for us to step in before there is a scandal in sports . . . maybe we can help each other get and stay healthy.


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The Seattle Seahawks offered Colin Kaepernick a chance to workout as an application for the backup quarterback position. But as quickly as the opportunity was offered, it was rescinded.

On talk radio a week ago, I heard a lady say it was poorly planned publicity stunt in which those making the offer from the Seahawks did not realize how the hoopla would play out. On that same station, an ESPN affiliate, a gentleman opined that the Seahawks simply made a mistake with the coaching staff feeling Kaepernick could be the missing backup piece while the administration shut down the offer in fear of the possible backlash of picking up Kaepernick.

However, the two most interesting opinions surrounded the collusion case Kaepernick has against the National Football League. The first one, opined by a second gentleman, felt it was a strategy to show there isn’t collusion amongst the League owners to blackball Colin. To him, it was a merely a tactic for the NFL to win the case against them. The fourth and final gentleman felt that the rescinded offer to workout was proof that collusion was happening.

Both of those arguments are quite plausible, and it is the combination of those last two opinions that seem very interesting. Offering a chance to workout would have been a great way to say, “look the Seattle Seahawks are not colluding with any other teams to keep Kaepernick out of the League.” But once Colin accepted the offer to workout, Seattle took back its offer to let him tryout. Score one for Kaepernick, and zero for the Seahawks. The fact that the Seahawks took back that offer makes them like they are playing games . . . smart juries and judges don’t like games when it comes to business. It smells like a scam, or in other words, a way to manipulate public opinion and further harm the target.

And Seattle should have known that was not the way to go about this after the Baltimore Ravens rescinded their offer to make Colin their quarterback this past season. The Seahawks could argue that there was a legitimate fear of backlash for hiring Kaepernick over his stance of kneeling for the national anthem after further consideration. But there is two problems wrong with that argument: (1) Kaepernick did not confirm or deny his current anthem stance, and (2) the Ravens made the same argument after extending an offer to hire him as their quarterback before rescinding that offer.

The fear of backlash appears to be a legitimate argument until one realizes it just doesn’t hold up under scrutiny. First, where was the team’s fear of backlash about drafting a young man who pleaded guilty of disorderly conduct despite a vigorous protest of the arresting police officers for domestic violence charges against Frank Clark. Furthermore, NFL teams have press agents who well equipped, or at least shoud be, to handle these types of situations.

So, maybe . . . just maybe the fourth gentleman’s opinion is on point. Perhaps, the rescinded offer is proof amongst everything else that has happened over the past year that teams within the National Football League have colluded to blackball, or blacklist, Kaepernick from its ranks. According to Black’s Law Dictionary, collusion is the deceitful agreement or compact between two or more persons, for the one party to bring an action against another for some evil purpose, as to defraud a third party of his right. In Kaepernick’s situation, that evil purpose is blackballing or blacklisting which is a form of retaliation against a party for exercising their legal rights.

Kaepernick has been overlooked by too many teams needing a qualified quarterback who subsequently select another quarterback lacking the skills–on and off the field–that Colin possesses. But that and the addition of other athletes who began this fight with Kaepernick will be taken up next week . . . .

Source: USA Breaking News