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To: fresc who wrote (7675)	1/17/2006 12:30:48 PM
From: Lino...	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 37540

My Point was Sports really does little to hide kids from Booze/ pot. I don't think I ever suggested sports would hide drugs from kids or hide kids from drugs. What I did suggest that sports offers an alternate choice. As drug use is portrayed as "cool" and the kids that choose them priorize a "good time" over responsibility, it is impossible, from a responsible parent's perspective, to not embrace sports as a preferable means of attracting their child's attention. I have a bitch with organized and professional sports that I don't mind bringing to the forefront. When professional sports players (whom can be described as role models) use drugs, the sports associations that govern their activities should immediately and irrevocably cancel their contract and ban them from the game as a penalty. Grant Fuhr should never have played goal after being caught using coke..Darryl Strawberry is an embarrassment. Ross Butthead the skateboarder should have been banned, not defended by cretien and Glen Clarke. Drunk driving players should get the ban as well. At this time, drug use and drunk driving both kill kids and both are illegal. If, as some say, drugs should be legal because users say so, then should drunk driving be made legal because drunks say so?