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What message should we take from NHL's suspension of words?

By Damien Cox
Special to ESPN.com

Wednesday, December 3, 2008

When pitcher John Rocker made the fateful decision to share his idiosyncratic and repulsive worldview with a larger audience, many recoiled in disgust. Many others said, "Amen, brother." When Steve Nash, a Canadian, chose to offer a dissension against U.S. military action in Iraq by wearing a T-shirt that read "No War. Shoot For Peace" to the NBA All-Star Game, some applauded his anti-war stance. Others told him to mind his own business. When Sean Avery decided this week to slag his ex in the ...

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