The Gladiators Must Perform

By Bob Wallace   The other morning I tuned in to SportsCenter and noticed that there were four major stories about violence or violent acts occurring in football, hockey, basketball, and baseball. Each sport had a particular instance of behavior which could probably be classified as criminal, or at least senseless and unnecessarily violent.   In the NFL, the story focused on the New Orleans Saints “bounty-gate” scandal, combined with Commissioner Roger Goodell’s unbending attack