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If you're a professional athlete, why the heck would you ever get within 200 yards of a nightclub? Those things are trouble magnets rivaled only by the worst slums and ghettos. Just seeing the headlines gives the impression that dudes get injured or killed at them on a regular basis, and who knows what goes on that doesn't get reported or discovered. Can't these fools think of any better ways to entertain themselves, especially with all that money, than going to nightclubs? How often do we hear of players either getting wasted and starting something or somehow getting caught up in some part of the myraid of crazy bleep that goes down regularly at those places? Geez.

I guess they're not paid athletes because of their superior reasoning skills and maturity levels. As some guy recently said (rightly) about Robert Horry, you can take the player out of the ghetto but you can't take the ghetto out of the player. No matter how successful a guy gets, he'll senselessly return to his roots until someone helps him by teaching him something different. Sad but true -- for all of us really, but it's especially obvious in the pro sports ranks.