It feels like the bad guys are winning. Every day there’s a new piece of salacious, perverted, inappropriate and criminal sports news to report.

Thursday, Lawrence Taylor, one of the greatest football players of all time, took the handcuffed perp walk into a criminal courtroom to face arraignment on charges that he had sex with a battered, 16-year-old runaway girl forced into prostitution.

It seems as if we can’t make it a week without some sort of gross sports scandal.

L.T. knocked a nameless Virginia lacrosse player accused of murdering his former girlfriend out of the headlines. The Virginia lacrosse player momentarily overshadowed Miami general manager Jeff Ireland’s “is-your-mama-a-prostitute?” gaffe. Ireland provided some cover for Pittsburgh quarterback Ben Roethlisberger, who recently avoided prosecution from sexual-assault charges.

And Big Ben was about the only thing stealing any spotlight from recovering sex addict Tiger Woods.

I’m good at writing about scandal. I know its temptations firsthand. I’m unafraid to address it in its rawest form.

But I’m growing tired. I feel like a participant in a scam.

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