A shortstop for the Colorado Rockies is charged with grabbing his wife by the throat and shoving her into a hotel’s sliding-glass door. A forward for the Atlanta Hawks faces drug charges after a car in which he is a passenger leads police on a high-speed chase. A lineman for the Jets hits 143 miles an hour while driving his marijuana-scented Bentley on a Missouri highway, a loaded gun and a 12-year-old child aboard.
In the rarefied world of professional sports, the dispensing of justice in a manner both fair to the employee and protective of a game’s integrity remains an ongoing challenge.