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		<title>T.O. in Vick&#8217;s corner</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Jul 2009 09:19:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christiaan DeFranco</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Aside from running a dogfighting ring and personally killing dogs, Michael Vick hasn&#8217;t had any character issues, Terrell Owens says. Therefore, he deserves a second chance. Hmm&#8230; Can you count the number of things wrong with that statement? Unfortunately, T.O. isn&#8217;t the only one who thinks Vick &#8220;deserves&#8221; a second chance. But Michael Vick already got [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Aside from running a dogfighting ring and personally killing dogs, Michael Vick hasn&#8217;t had any character issues, Terrell Owens <a href="http://www.buffalonews.com/home/story/745189.html" target="_blank">says</a>. Therefore, he deserves a second chance.</p>
<p>Hmm&#8230; Can you count the number of things wrong with that statement?</p>
<p><img class="alignright size-full wp-image-1164" title="Terrell Owens" src="http://www.thephillysportsjournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/Terrell-Owens.jpg" alt="Terrell Owens" width="238" height="174" />Unfortunately, T.O. isn&#8217;t the only one who thinks Vick &#8220;deserves&#8221; a second chance. But Michael Vick already got a second chance — he&#8217;s not in prison anymore.</p>
<p>He got a second chance at making something of his life, a second chance at freedom. It doesn&#8217;t mean he simply gets to pick up where he left off in the NFL.</p>
<p>Owens says Vick has &#8220;suffered enough,&#8221; as if we should feel sorry for him, and that there are guys around the league who &#8220;have done far worse things&#8221; than Vick did and they&#8217;ve gotten second chances.</p>
<p>Really? Who?</p>
<p>There have been plenty of guys who&#8217;ve committed crimes, even crimes that have resulted in people&#8217;s deaths. But how many of those guys had the depraved <em>intent</em> that Michael Vick had when he derived pleasure from murdering dogs? What Vick did was irresponsible but it was no accident. It was how he got his kicks.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.thephillysportsjournal.com/2007/08/27/going-deep-plain-old-mike/" target="_blank">Here</a> are my thoughts on Vick, which I laid out when he pled guilty. Maybe T.O. just doesn&#8217;t want to be the only outcast stuck in Buffalo.</p>
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		<title>Unsettling departure</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Jul 2009 07:09:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christiaan DeFranco</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Imagine the humiliation and anger his wife must feel, not to mention what his four sons must be feeling. The most striking thing about Steve McNair&#8217;s death, besides the fact he was shot multiple times, including in the head, was that he was with a woman who wasn&#8217;t his wife of 12 years. It&#8217;s as if he died [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img class="alignright size-full wp-image-717" title="Ravens McNair Retires Football" src="http://www.thephillysportsjournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/McNairSideline3.jpg" alt="Ravens McNair Retires Football" width="202" height="207" />Imagine the humiliation and anger his wife must feel, not to mention what his four sons must be feeling.</p>
<p>The most striking thing about Steve McNair&#8217;s <a href="http://www.tennessean.com/article/20090705/NEWS03/90705014" target="_blank">death</a>, besides the fact he was shot multiple times, including in the head, was that he was with a woman who wasn&#8217;t his wife of 12 years. It&#8217;s as if he died caught in the act.</p>
<p>I would never judge his marriage, and he certainly wasn&#8217;t the first famous name to screw around (or non-famous name). Perhaps he and his wife even had some sort of agreement — after all, she must have known about his condo in downtown Nashville. Maybe she suffered in silence, choosing to quietly look the other way. Or maybe their marriage was on the rocks. But for a husband and father to go out the way he did, and now the publicity, it adds a sense of contradiction to the pain and shock his family and his fans are going through.</p>
<p>By all accounts, it sounds like a murder-suicide. He and his 20-year-old girlfriend possibly got into a late-night drunken argument, and then she shot him to death and took her own life. Police have stopped short of such a pronouncement, and there has been no word yet about forensics, such as gunpowder residue on the girl&#8217;s hands. Whatever happened, it wouldn&#8217;t have happened if Steve had been home with his family that night.</p>
<p>To greater or lesser degrees, everyone&#8217;s life has its dark alleyways. McNair died in his.</p>
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