Do you think that Ricky Williams should be banned for life?
339007
Fargodakota got it totally right. If I got a positive drug test at my laboratory, I'd be out on my ass. Plus most people would go to jail after their 4th violation, not get a slap on the wrist. Pro athletes are coddled like babies so much that they have no idea what life is like in the real world. Ricky Williams is a perfect example. He's a joke.
553001
They should be banned for life!!
1017599
Just for spite, they'll probably elect him in the year after he dies.\nHe's "banned for life."\nIt don't say nothin about after he's dead.\n\nHe should have been in a long time ago.\nHow do you make the all-century team and not the Hall of Fame?
43004
No. Sometimes there are exceptions to rules, and I believe this should be one of them. Even though nobody was hurt, Davis saw someone threaten his wife, so should he be fined a quarter million for helping his family? I don't think so. Stern needs to step up and keep Davis on the court. No matter what the rules say about players entering the stands, you cannot fine someone for protecting their family.
638689
Yes! They should be banned and any records they have set during their career should be erased.
231867
hmmm  no he should definitely not be banned... hell he has more  experience than most people  now !  though I do think some one should stick a sign on his back stating " don't let this happen to you ! "...lol....
723245
Yes of course it should all be taken away if he had the agent contacts (I think he did).  It doesn't matter if he is the best ever to play the game, he shouldn't get a free ride past the rules and ethics.  Think if it was somebody else from the same team that sat on the bench all year you wouldn't think twice about taken away all his games and his national title.  Just because he is a super star he shouldn't be able to get out of this.
735919
I hope somebody knocks his a$$ out. I mean these are just kids he's coaching. I'd like to see him do that in the NBA. That old fart would be in a coma if he pulled that in the pros. Just look at what happened to Carlesimo. nuff said.
913043
He's an incredible athlete.\n\nHowever, he accepted an 8-year ban from the sport in August, in conjunction with positive testing, along with cooperating with doping authorities.  His coach, Trevor Graham is under investigation for a broad doping consipracy.\n\nWhere there's smoke there's fire.\n\nHe's obviously not clean sadly.  One wonders how much of what he did was clean.  Sometimes athletes use banned substances just to heal faster.  Still, if it's banned, it's banned.
422093
1.  Ricky Williams screwed himself up, and was punished.  Barry Bonds screwed up the game of baseball and was not punished (yet).\n2.  Pot makes you worse at sports and wastes talent, which is a personal tragedy for which we have sympathy.  Steroids (etc) make you better at the game and enhances talent, creating a social tragedy for those people who follow the rules, and those are the people who deserve our sympathy.\n3.  Ricky Williams is a dope, but basically a good-intentioned one.  Barry Bonds is a smart, savvy jerk.\n4.  Ricky Williams used pot to manage anxiety that at one point caused him to conduct media interviews while wearing a helmet.  While we may not agree with his choice of medicine, we understand that he was attempting to manage a psychological problem.  Barry Bonds was a megalomaniac who used drugs to enhance his own legacy as a player, and soothe his wounded ego after seeing other players (who were also juicing) receive more media attention than he did.\n\nNeed I go on?
125
He deserves the punishment he's been given.  Let him sit it out this year (and still get paid a ridculous sum of money) and maybe that will set him straight.\n\nGreat player, I agree, but calling your teammates out on a regular basis isn't cool.  The Eagles did what was right.
413783
Why should I feel sorry for him?  He's the one associating with known steroid users.  If he wants the media to leave him alone, then he should retire.  I'm sick of him whining.  I couldn't imagine how much baseball ratings would decline if he broke the record.
989789
Yes thank you for saying that! I agree so much, that coach is such a blatant racist.  How can he get away with saying such idiotic things and the country and team still support him.  I guess it takes a racist to know a racist.  I like to see him come to the U.S. and say something so stupid, he would be eaten alive!
35845
i think they should put him in prision. Because he is just a bad influence on or off the field.and is to dangerous of a player and he has not played alot of games because he was in jail to many times.
1037712
Yes he should be banned.  Although technically he was not cheating, we was breaking the law.  In case some of you forgot, steroids are ILLEGAL! Bonds is my favorite all-time player, but if he has been found to use steriods he broke the law and should be punished for it.  Rose broke the law and the rules of baseball and paid the price for doing so. I hope that it comes out that he did not use, but all indications point to that he did use and that is unfortunate because I think he was well on his way to becoming the best player in baseball history without using steriods.  Too bad.
638226
absolutely not. he was sticking up for a teammate like players do all the time. he unfortunately took things a little too far and injured another player. it could've happened to anyone! would you like to be shunned for life if u made a mistake?
1139201
He is innocent until proven guilty, and his wife was the one to bail him out, so who knows what's going on there.\n\nHe should keep playing until he is (IF he is) declared guilty. It would be horrible (and pretty un-American) to kill the guys career on an allegation. If he is found guilty, he should be banned; he would be a felon, and a pretty big dirtbag as well.