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Updated: Saturday, November 21, 2009 7:35 p.m.

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Sports as usual:sex, scandal and March Madness

Staff Columnist
Published Thursday, March 27, 2008

My governor resigned over spring break after The New York Times revealed that he had slept with a prostitute. Within days, his replacement admitted to affairs and cocaine use. Although the scandal shocked the political world and dominated the news for a week, I remembered that political scandals are rarely as scandalous as those in the sports world.

We’re amazed when we find out that politicians can take off their suits and break some laws after hours. It helps when, like Gov. Spitzer, they are known for cracking down on moral and legal misfits, or when they are the president of...

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