Money Talks
In today's society athletes are admired so much that people sometimes forget that they too are human. They eat just like everyone else, they sleep just like everyone else, and they get punished for breaking the law just like everyone else, or do they? Mike Tyson, Leon Smith, and Dennis Rodman are three professional athletes, all very much in the public's eye, and they have all broken the law, but since they are all making a considerable amount of money for many key people in sports, they have all been given punishments that do not fit their crimes. Mike Tyson has a laundry list of atrocious acts that he has committed during his professional career. The first reported on the list was in 1992, when he was accused of raping 18-year old Miss Black America contestant Desiree Washington in Indianapolis. He was then found guilty by a jury and sentenced to serve time in prison. After serving only three of his six year sentence, Tyson was released and came back into the boxing ring. Just two years later, in 1997, during a Wo
Tyson is not the only athlete to receive this star treatment. Mike Tyson, Leon Smith, and Dennis Rodman are just three of the many athletes that receive this type of special treatment. Finally, Rodman was fined two thousand dollars after pleading guilty to drunk driving charges on December 22nd, 1999. Also a problem child in the NBA is Dennis Rodman, whose situation is similar to that of Leon Smith's. Smith skipped college to go straight into the NBA, where he is having many problems. National Professional leagues are overly lenient towards their star athletes, which results in negative role models for kids and other people thinking that they can get away with the same things as the athletes. Finally, Tyson returned to jail in 1999 for assaulting two motorists during a traffic dispute in 1998. ------------------------------------------------------------------------**Bibliography**. After going to a psychiatric ward, Smith was later traded to another basketball team, but continued to play the game all the same. rld Boxing Association championship fight against Evander Holyfield, Tyson bit off part of Holyfield's ear. Once again, Tyson still hasn't faced normal consequences, because he makes so much money for so many people. Another Rodman incident was when he was arrested in Newport Beach for disorderly conduct on August 21st, 1999. Rodman was only placed behind bars for a few hours before he was released. For this deed, Tyson was only fined approximately 500,000 dollars, and lost the match. Finally, a warrant was issued for his arrest because he broke bail by leav!ing Illinois, supposedly to seek psychiatric care in Texas.
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