The recently concluded
Roger Clemens trial ought give all Americans pause to consider what’s gone so wrong with sports in the United States. And I’m not talking about steroids. Whether a professional athlete is using entirely legal means to grow his body to an insanely unhealthy weight and compete in the National Football League, or is taking growth-enhancing drugs to accomplish the same end result is truthfully of very minor significance. That is, to anyone other than headline-seeking members of Congress or advertising-seeking news media.
Who really cares what a professional athlete voluntarily chooses to do to his body anyway?
To me, the real significance of the Roger Clemens trial is not the alleged crime itself, but rather the incredibly widespread fascination over whether yet another sports idol was about to be publicly disgraced.
