Next week, a trial is scheduled to begin that could determine the fate of drug testing in professional sports. Although not as sexy as last year's A-Rod confessions, this case is far more important.

While we can change hockey, if we want to, we will have more difficulty changing people. If we are attracted to sports violence and willing to pay for it, someone will be willing to sell it to us.

The NCAAs are the only truly pan-American sporting event, an Olympics of sport where every region of the country has local heroes in action. The play has been uniformly exceptional.

While enjoying the plaudits of the crowd, star athletes begin to believe they are special. Athletes should not get away with what otherwise would be criminal or civil offenses.