psugrowler asked this question on 2/28/2000:

Why are so many pro athletes committing heinous violent crime today?

sunhm gave this response on 3/31/2000:

Ive read some pretty great comment from the other experts but i believe you cant put it down to a set od predetermined factors. As with anything that goes wrong in society, people are quick to use the nature or nuture debate, in a way to explain why the person (athlete)commited the action at hand. Yet there are some many variables, such as a drug and alcohol problem, which is a none factor effecting people in the public eye. Further more society can be to blame aswell because when a pro athlette is performing he is the king of the hill, yet when he is in a slump there is so much pressure put on them to perform for the public that it becomes just to much to bare and we return to the matter at hand, they end up doing something stupid.

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