Racism in Sports

A couple days ago, John Rawlings, from Sportingnews.com wrote an article titled, "Does race color discussion of bad athletes?" where he highlights that black athletes get noticed more when they do something bad in the media than white athletes. He goes on to mention that Rick Ankiel for the beloved St. Louis Cardinals was shipped human growth hormones and the media found out, but no one really made a huge deal about it. People did however make a huge deal out of Barry Bonds taking steroids. Rawlings says that's because the color of his race. OK, I will agree that it might be a factor but another factor was that he was in the race for the home run record i believe when it started, and the fact that his stats jumped up out of nowhere. Rick Ankiel is a no name player compared to Bonds. He is insufficient to the sporting world because he really was not very important at the time of the accusations. But it's not just baseball that Rawlings touches, he talks about football with the whole Micheal Vick shenanigans. Even if you do not follow football at all you most likely know who Micheal Vick is. So many different news stations covered his dog fighting case. But i truthfully do not think that race is the biggest factor in this story or even a good factor. He was hurting innocent dogs and being a huge dog lover myself i only wanted justice because he was hurting such amazing animals. He was getting all that media coverage because he was a huge celebrity in football doing something unbelievable with his money. But I guess its all how you look at it?