Friday, August 26, 2005

We're taking bets that once a thief always a thief...

Being a UCONN basketball fan I am greatly disappointed in the actions of Marcus Williams and A.J. Price. They will be punished for their actions and deservedly so. This article by Doug Gottlieb of ESPN.com really hit home with me. These are kids who made a real bad mistake. They may or may not recover from it, but we need to give them the opportunity. Hopefully we don't have assholes like Jim Delaney of the Big Ten to bring them down 9 years later if they atone for their mistakes. Read the article and tell me what you think. (If you do not have ESPN Insider please feel free to use my username and password and read it. I will be changing the password in one week. USERNAME: GregoryMadrid - PASSWORD: julianne)

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

I agree that everyone deserves a chance to start fresh and to be forgiven, as long as those in question use the mistakes to grow and learn and change.

“Try and fix what you have done, find out why you did it, and learn to never do it again.”

It is sad that very few people can do this-to admit they were wrong, to take action and change, and most importantly, to forgive themselves. I think that is why we see very little compassion in the public these days…if they can’t embrace their own errors, they can’t accept someone else’s.

I liked that the author’s advice was to “Never forget any of it” but didn’t like that he ended it with “…because they won’t either.” Especially because he made a point of saying earlier that the mistakes he made, made him the person he was today. THAT is the only reason why you should never forget.

death commish said...

Stupid jerks...there goes any hope of another championship.

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