There are countless NFL starters who have been convicted of crimes - then they come back. It has nothing to do with the sport itself but with the social environment that comes with it. If you're a great athlete in America, you're exposed to a lifestyle unlike any other, except possibly what movie or music stars experience, and it's ripe for illicit behavior. This kind of conduct makes it all the more difficult for other women who are abused by these guys - it makes it so much easier for skilled defense lawyers to point to any woman as a groupie. You cite devastating accounts of gang rapes and other horrors.
Juries have a hard time convicting celebrities.
Seventy-five percent of athletes arrested for such rapes are acquitted. Your book may expose you to charges of racial bias. When you look at the numbers of black American men in the NFL and the NBA, it is an overwhelming majority. So, it's inevitable that the majority of perpetrators are going to be black men. At the same time, the majority of the men who are not perpetrating these crimes in this population are also black men.