Marquette University Law School Marquette Law Scholarly Commons Faculty Publications Faculty Scholarship 1-1-2001 Athletes in Trouble with the Law: Journalistic Accounts for the Resentful Fan David Ray Papke Marquette University Law School,
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[email protected]. ATHLETES IN TROUBLE WITH THE LAW: JOURNALISTIC ACCOUNTS FOR THE RESENTFUL FAN DAVID RAY PAPKE* Sports have evolved in the course of American history from local folk games to highly organized commercial enterprises in which team owners, players, broadcasters, and marketers of sports products can liter- ally earn millions.1 The increasingly sophisticated dissemination of sports news has been an important part of the evolution of sports. How- ever, in recent decades sports news has somewhat curiously come to in- clude frequent reports of athletes alleged to have committed crimes. The print media, in particular, have grown eager to describe not only what athletes accomplish on the playing courts, but also their predica- ments in the courts of law.