| I don't doubt that pro sports have issues these days, but I'd imagine that the biggest change from days past is simply the overabundance of news coverage on sports and athletes. With ESPN, ESPN2, ESPN News, ESPN.com, 50 different sports blogs, Fox Sports, CNNSI.com, and who knows how many other sports news outlets are out there, anything even remotely controversial will get huge coverage. As a result, if you stack each sport on top of the other, and list their problems like you did, you paint a picture of a pretty bleak landscape. But in reality, it's not much different than it's ever been, it's just all force fed to us in such a way that makes us believe it's a massive problem |