Re: slight nitpick
While I agree that media scrutiny is a factor in athletes' notoriety, there is lots of evidence that their habits are MUCH worse than ours.
Hardly any good poker players -- and almost no professionals -- do drugs because of the knowledge that they prevent people from playing well. Yet there are drug scandals involving top athletes nearly every month.
Wilt Chamberlain bragged in his book that he had had sex with over 20,000 women, and Magic Johnson said publicly that he "accomodated" over 500 women. Kobe's defense lawyer will almost certainly claim, "It wasn't Kobe's fault. She wanted him because he's a basketball star. Poor Kobe couldn't resist her." How many top poker players have had sex with 600 or 20,000 women? How many have been tried for rape?
To the best of my knowledge, none.
Regards,
Al
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