Well here you go – a few of ESPN.com’s featured headlines:

Pacman accused of punching woman at nightclub
Congress asks if Tejada lied in ‘05
WVU to investigate missing files

My greatest fear is that our games, our hobbies, our passions will become media-saturated soap operas. Maybe it’s my refusal to accept this world in which we live, where the media paints our world and culture as negative. But when I go to ESPN.com, I don’t want to see these stories. I understand that the folks at the Associated Press and other media outlets have a job to report the news, but I’d rather not see it. I want to believe that our games are pure and that our athletes are role models. I want to be uplifted by success stories. I want to be told the untold story, one that takes creativity and heart to create.

If I wanted to watch ‘Days of Our Lives,’ I would … but not in some weird sports version. If I wanted to hear about people’s faults all day long, I’d turn the television to CNN. That’s why I thought we were fans in the first place – because sports, at the most grassroots level, are supposed to be pure.

Pure does not equate to woman-beating or lying.