Marion Jones Joins WNBA in Attempt to Remain Irrelevant

Usually, when an elite athlete is disgraced and humiliated the way Marion Jones was when she was stripped of her 5 Sydney Olympic medals, they go into hiding to avoid all the negative media scrutiny.

That’s exactly what Marion Jones did today when she signed a contract to play for some team in the WNBA. (honestly if I mentioned the team, would you even know they had existed before?)

Marion Jones was a star point guard at UNC in the late 90s, leading the Tar Heels to a National Championship in 1997. At 34, Jones hopes to revitalize her hoop game, and try to put her Olympic embarrassment behind her by moving into obscurity in a league kept afloat by Coors Light beer sales at Laker games.

Posted by Charles Drengberg on 03/11/2010. Filed under NCAA Women's Volleyball,WNBA,Women's Sports. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0. You can leave a response or trackback to this entry