But, there has to be a better way to figure this out and clean up the sports world without turning it into a witch hunt. Can’t it be accomplished more quietly by the sports regulators behind the scenes so it’s not the first story we hear about everyday?
Four days since Kentucky Derby weekend culminated there should be stories all over the sports media regarding two major things from that race.
First, the media coverage should be giving Eight Belles the respect she deserves.
We should be hearing about what a great race she ran—about how a real underdog took on some of the sport’s fastest and strongest, and nearly pulled it off. And maybe we should even be hearing about how her jockey, Gabriel Saez, perhaps rode her too hard and should have pulled up prior to the finish of the race.
And then we should be hearing about how amazing Big Brown looked in his race. They should be talking about how he looked stronger and faster than all the other horses out there, and proved it as they came down the stretch.
Stories should be popping up regarding, arguably, the most legitimate contender we now have to win the triple-crown for the first time since Affirmed did it in 1978.
And while I know that will be a hot topic of discussion as we approach the May 17th Preakness, we should hear about it now as well. And not just because Big Brown won the Kentucky Derby like other horses every year, but because of how dominant he looked in doing so.
But instead, we revert back to the media’s favorite subject—performance enhancing drugs. We seem to do this so often when major events in sports history are taking place.
In the end, I know I want to see the sports world cleaned up so that I can have confidence that the records and accomplishments that I witness are real and deserved.
But I also know that in the meantime I don’t want to miss out on a decade of enjoying those stories as the witch hunts take place.
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