Pro football has been in the news with Ray Rice, as well as other football players, with their domestic violence episodes.

Maybe it is time for the contracts of all professional sports athletes to include a paragraph something to the effect: If you are convicted of domestic violence, or test positive for use of self-enhancing drugs, you will be suspended from participation in any professional sport for 24 months. You will forfeit any awards received during the time of abuse, and all pay during the period of suspension. A second offense relating to any of these actions will result in permanent banishment from all pro sports for life.

That hopefully would put some integrity back into sports.

Kids need to see role models in sports figures, vs. the wrong message that a few sports figures are sending. Setting records and the treatment of others needs to be done honorably. Maybe this will put a stop to the people like Lance Armstrong, Alex Rodrigues’ and Ray Rice’s etc. from seeking glory the dishonest way or abusing others around them.

The attorneys can work out the legalese, but you get the idea.

Larry Brickman, Bellevue