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Poor decisions lead to trouble

By Dick Vitale
ESPN.com

Wednesday, August 6, 2008

Lately, when picking up the sports section of the newspaper, Brett Favre and Manny Ramirez have dominated the headlines. Unfortunately those two soap operas are not the only subjects dominating the sports news. What crushes me is the lack of accountability and responsibility of student-athletes. Recently there have been several troubling stories. You pick up the paper and there are concerns about people representing the sport of college basketball. West Virginia's Joe Mazzulla and Cameron Th ...

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