Athletes really need to give us a break..

I am not one of these sports junkies that believe in conspiracy theories or one of those guys who point the finger at anyone who can do something better than I can. I believe firmly that just because someone has done P.E.D.'s, it doesn't make them super man or woman just because they took the drugs. They still have perform and sometimes the drugs don't make that much of a difference. My question and my blog today is why do these guys lie after they have been caught or why do athletes go through this period of denial. Are they trying to sample public opinion and see who has their back or who is against them? Are they hoping to stay on the front and back page of the newspaper so society does not forget them? Is what they are involved in so laden with trouble that it keeps them from telling as to protect themselves and their families from violence? Pete Rose lied for twenty years before admitting he bet on baseball. He went to jail and maintained while he was in jail that he was innocent of betting on baseball. Marion Jones denied ever meeting Victor Conte and then Conte supplies ESPN with a photo of him and Jones that he has in his office. She also denied using drugs. Mark McGwire lied for years about steroid use. Now we have Floyd Landis who went to arbitration, went to court, went to all media outlets and proclaimed his innocence. Yesterday he all of sudden is a singing like a canary. Do they all miss the attention? Winning the Tour de France is a huge deal. Pete Rose is one the 15 greatest players ever to play the game of baseball and he did not want to get banned from the game so he lied. Mark McGwire has hit 583 home runs which is in the top 10 in that category and that would have put him in the Hall of Fame. Marion Jones won Olympic Medals and was clearly one of the greatest 10 women sprinters in Track and Field History. It is easy to say you got caught, now come clean. We know that there has to be more to the entire saga than people are letting on. Plus nowadays people are keeping DNA samples around just in case they have to testify and save their own ass. Monica Lewinsky kept President Clinton's sperm on a dress. Roger Clemens is up a creek because his trainer has kept his DNA to cover his ass in Clemens HGH case. What is going to happen next. O.J. is going to admit to killing Nicole and Ron on his deathbed. Robert Blake is too. Still waiting for someone to admit that they killed Kennedy...