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August 24, 2007
Errol Louis denounces jock spousal abuse, but where's JKidd?
Atlantic Yards Report
Daily News columnist Errol Louis on Thursday took up the case of Michael Vick, the quarterback with an unsavory appetite for dogfighting. In a column headlined It's a dog and pony show: While Vick gets ripped for animal cruelty, the jocks who beat their wives get a pass, Louis made a quite reasonable point:
The same sports execs falling over themselves to sever Vick from the sport have been downright lenient when it comes to other offenders.
His examples:
- Michael Pittman of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, a fourth domestic-violence arrest.
- Lionel Gates of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, charged with beating a pregnant woman.
- Lamar Thomas, formerly of the Miami Dolphins, put his pregnant fiancée's head through a window.
- Brett Myers of the Philadelphia Phillies allegedly dragged his wife around by the hair publicly.
- Bobby Chouinard of the Colorado Rockies, doing a year in jail after putting a loaded pistol to his wife's head.
What about JKidd?
I wondered if Louis would cite an example closer to home: New Jersey Nets point guard Jason Kidd, whose wife Joumana, in a recent divorce filing, accused him of serial adultery and regular physical abuse--front-page news in Louis's own newspaper.
Posted by lumi at August 24, 2007 7:52 AM