Jerry Sandusky, Lance Armstrong and our soccer park

First, this week, Tuesday, in fact, Jerry Sandusky was finally sentenced for sexually exploiting and abusing young men at Penn State:

Jerry Sandusky sentenced to at least 30 years

BELLEFONTE, Pa. -- Jerry Sandusky has been sentenced to at least 30 years in prison in the child sexual abuse scandal that brought shame to Penn State and led to coach Joe Paterno's downfall.

The sentence means the 68-year-old former Penn State assistant coach will be in prison at least until he's nearly 100 years old.

Judge John Cleland issued the sentence Tuesday, three months after a jury convicted Sandusky on 45 counts of child sexual abuse.

Here's the problem, here's the really odd thing, however, in spite of the testimony of the young men he sexually assaulted and betrayed:

Sandusky maintains his innocence and plans to appeal, a process his lawyer has said will probably begin in the coming weeks.

This is all followed rather closely this week--a mere two days later--with the release of the government's report on Lance Armstrong and his alleged doping to win his cycling races:

Armstrong led doping, agency says

Sophisticated program is detailed in 202-page report against the cycling great. Attorney calls it a hatchet job.

The U.S. Anti-Doping Agency on Wednesday released details of its investigation of Lance Armstrong, calling it the most sophisticated doping program in recent sports history.

It said Armstrong played a key role by doping, supplying doping products and demanding that his top teammates dope so he could be successful.

Here's the tough part, for Mr. Armstrong:

A 202-page account of the agency’s case against Armstrong included sworn testimony from 26 people, including nearly a dozen former teammates on Armstrong’s U.S. Postal Service and Discovery Channel squads who said they saw Armstrong doping to help him win every one of his record seven Tour de France titles.

26 people say you did it?

That seems pretty conclusive.

If I'm Lance Armstrong, I'm thinking that's some lousy company to be in.

As for Kansas City, we were wise to have only named it the "Livestrong Sporting Park", weren't we, instead the Armstrong Soccer Stadium or some such?

Links: http://www.kansascity.com/2012/10/09/3858809/jerry-sandusky-sentenced-to-at.html#storylink=misearch

http://www.kansascity.com/2012/10/11/3861904/armstrong-led-doping-agency-says.html

http://www.goal.com/en-us/news/1110/major-league-soccer/2012/10/11/3442618/sporting-kansas-city-will-not-change-name-of-livestrong-sporting-