Marion Jones

29 February 2008

l be in the rest of your life.  This is a similar situation of what happened to Olympic runner Marion JonesMarion Jones.  There were accusations of her taking steroids and she even went to Congress also and told them that she did not take any steroids.  On a slow process, she went through the stages of denial to acceptance.  She went from denial to anger to bargaining then to depression which finally pushed her towards acceptance of what she did.  She looked inside herself and felt what she did was wrong.  She looked in her heart and felt she needed to come clean to release the stress and the strife these accusations were causing her.   She looked inside herself and saw the only path to righteousness was to come clean.  She is now serving her time in prison to help relinquish her soul. 

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11 January 2008

sioned it: as an indictment of our legal system, highlighting the disparity between punishments for Marion Jones and Scooter Libby. However, between conceiving of the idea this morning and gathering my thoughts to begin writing, I heard ESPN’s J.A. Adande tackle this very issue on the Steve Mason show. I was frustrated that I was beaten to the punch, but honored that the well-spoken and thoughtful J.A. shared my sentiment. Kudos, Mr. Adande for a very articulate, heart-felt breakdown of why

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