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Michigan’s Juwan Howard lucky he avoided harsher punishment; players caught in between

Moussa Diabate turned 20 a month ago. The Michigan basketball freshman forward is old enough to drive a car but not rent one. He can vote but he can’t buy a beer. He can buy a lottery ticket but can’t enter a casino in Las Vegas.

In other words, the state doesn’t trust that Diabate is ready to (fully) gamble, to drink, and corporate America doesn’t trust him to sign a contract with Avis. Which means that parts of the state and parts of society don’t consider him an adult, which is good, because he is not.