Derrick
Rose now joins Patrick Kane as a Chicago athlete accused of rape. A woman this week filed a civil suit seeking
damages for an alleged incident in 2013.
The
temptation here is to throw up your hands and shout, What’s wrong with
athletes? The answer is, Nothing,
really. Powerful people have always behaved
badly. What better example than the
Kennedys—Joe, JFK, Bobby, Ted….And nobody did it better than the Gilded Age
robber barons. A good example of that
would be millionaire Harry K. Thaw shooting architect Stanford White to death in
1906 for an old affair with a woman who would become Thaw’s wife. Thaw was found not guilty by reason of
insanity and sentenced to life in a mental institution. He got out, thanks to his high-priced legal
talent, in 1915. A subsequent kidnapping
and assault led to another incarceration, but not forever. Thaw spent the last 23 years of his life a
free man.
The moral of the
story? Be as impressed by what
millionaires Paul Konerko, Frank Thomas and Derek Jeter haven’t done as for
their career stats show they did.
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