It seems that we hear story after story about professional athletes being where they shouldn’t, doing what they shouldn’t, saying what they shouldn’t, and just a whole litany of ’shouldn’ts’ that grows, seemingly, daily. Are they always at fault?… I don’t think so, but a good number put themselves in situations that, unfortunately, breeds confusion and accusations. What’s you take on this one?…

Pittsburgh Steelers’ quarterback Ben Roethlisberger is involved in a civil lawsuit, where a 31-year-old woman alleges that the quarterback raped her in a hotel penthouse in July 2008. Now, I don’t even question why this is coming up a year later, because often times rape victims will wait years later to come forward. Now, Roethlisberger isn’t married, so there isn’t the question of why he was where he was (well, maybe, maybe not!). Anyway, my question is if these similar topics resurface time after time, why would (yet another) athlete put themselves in that predicament? A predicament to be judged, exposed, accused, and just downright inconvenienced, if they’re innocent…

Roethlisberger is denying the accusations and wants to focus on football and the upcoming season… But, why? Why and how did we get to this point? The plea is that athletes learn from other incidents and not put themselves in questionable situations where an accusation can even arise. Stay around those who have as much to lose as you and find someone to be accountable to… I don’t think this is rocket science.

And so the rape saga continues…