Former world class sprinter Marion Jones is returning to the sports world after serving time for lying about using performance enhancing drugs to the feds. Reports say she has signed to play with the WNBA's Tulsa Shock this coming season. When did the Shock leave Detroit? Anyway she, according to reports, will make $35,000 to play.
As someone who loves track & even field I used to be a big Marion Jones fan. But I knew a long time before her eventual downfall that there was something seriously wrong in Marionville when she married former shot putter C.J. Hunter. And I was right because not soon after that C.J. was busted for using performance enhancing drugs. Things didn't go much better when she dated former sprinter Tim Montgomery. He also was investigated for using performance enhancing drugs and later jailed for check fraud and dealing heroin.
So when Marion finally fessed up I wasn't that surprised.
Anyway, I believe in second chances. So I'm hoping Marion has a lot of success playing in the WNBA. She was one of the best basketball players in the nation during her college days at North Carolina. She's 34 so she could have five or six years in the WNBA. I wish her luck.
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I also wish her well,her experience should be a reminder to us all that the rules are the rules,unless you have a "privilege card".
Which entitles you to make mistakes in this life.
No matter how much things have changed in this country for black folks,things remain the same if you are playing societys game.
We need a game plan with rules that are ours.
That my friend will require a lot of re-education.
Imagine a world class athlete having to do six months in JAIL, like a criminal! Unbelievable!
Did all the many other baseball/football et al., athletes go to jail too???
Performance enhancing drugs hurt noone but the athlete. Which I'm not by any means condoning that any person inflict damage on their body, but, America loooooves, praises and rewards the fastest, strongest, bestest, so doesn't that sorta encourage the athlete to try anything for success?
I think so.
@BigMac
True. I think Marion reached a level where she thought she could get away with a few things. Unfortunately I think she also was deluded into thinking that by the people, men, around her.
@cactusrose
Yep, that was pretty harsh. So far she's the only athlete who has gone to jail because of performance enhancing drugs. What's up with that?
And I totally agree about the pressure to perform. I can't even imagine what it must be like to always feel the need to go faster and faster.
Well, she didn't go to jail for taking steroids - the charge was that she lied while under oath.
(But so did Mark McGuire before his tearful mea culpa.)
As for Marion - that's my girl.
I don't care what she's done - that's my girl.
Good luck to her - maybe I'll even watch a WNBA game or two.
@UBJ
Yeah, I said in my piece that Marion went to jail for lying. But she was lying about taking performance enhancing drugs.
Mark McGuire makes me sick. Even his brother hates him.
I think she'll do well in the WNBA. I don't have cable so I can't see most of the games, unfortunately.
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