A group of private anti-racism groups is considering launching a consumer boycott of Major League Baseball to protest the low numbers of minorities in management positions in baseball. The boycott would continue until major league baseball makes major changes to address this problem. This boycott is morally right and needed. A professional hockey player who is guilty of dangerous and intentional high sticking that leads to an opponent's loss of an eye should be prosecuted and possibly face jail time for assault. This would send a good message that athletes are not above the law and the increasingly violent conduct of athletes will not be tolerated in our communities.
Athletes assume certain risks when they play sports.
It is unfair and unwise to try to apply normal criminal laws about assault to conduct that occurs in the course of a game. Concordia should institute and extensive drug testing program for its athletes, testing for both performance enhancing drugs and recreational drugs. This would send a message that makes clear that our athletes are good role models and they are not cheating. It may also save the lives of some of our athletes by discouraging them from using dangerous drugs. An extensive Concordia program of drug testing its athletes would be an invasion of our athletes' privacy and a waste of money because there is not much of a problem.