Lies, Myths, and Tom Cable: When Are Allegations Considered the Truth?

In the media age, almost anyone can accuse anyone of anything. Politicians can be accused of bribery, lawyers of falsifying information, and even the guy at the local burger joint for spitting on your food.

But only in this odd mindset does the world like to accuse someone, take it for granted, and then expect the accused to be guilty, without a judge and jury.

Welcome to Tom Cable's world, thanks to ESPN.

Tom, if you remember far enough back, had been told the DA in Napa would not press charges regarding an incident from back in August. By the DA, there was different stories given both to the police, to the media and then to the DA himself.

Wasn't too much of a stretch to see what was going on as Randy Hanson wanted both to be back with the team and when he couldn't, he wanted Cable to pay for it.

Now, in comes the basket of dirty laundry.

ESPN's Outside the Lines decided to parade Tom's past loves in a show, trying to commit character assassination against him. The first case, that he acknowledged stemmed from the mid to late 80's, resulting from his learning of her infidelity. Sandy Cable denied this, but at the same time she has the same problem that he has. It's a classic game of he said-she said.

After all, was anyone else in the room? ESPN, was Chris Berman giving a play by play?

No, Sandy's only defense is the same one that Tom has. Convincing other groups what happened. Now, it seems Sandy and Marie Lutz, another woman claiming Tom has a violent past has found a group to attack him with.

Enter the NOW. The National Organization for Women, who are calling for Tom to be suspended for his actions.

The question I have is on what grounds? In the divorce that Glenda Cable has, she claimed he was "physically and verbally abusive". Then, during the ESPN segment, she stated, "Tom was never violent to me or the children."

From reading on the case of Marie Lutz, it sounds like Marie was looking for a fight or at least trying to cause trouble, due to her showing up at the early hours one morning and starting to pound on the door. If a person came to my door at 5:00 A.M. and started to cause a ruckus, throwing them out would be a good solution to the whole matter.

In this day and age, groups like the NOW like to crucify for any altercation, no matter the case, no matter how long ago it was. They are on a witch hunt, spurred on by allegations that are not proven in any court in the country.

And we have ESPN to thank for all of this.