Okay, maybe, not redemption, but at least liberation. A handful of athletes have paid their debts to society and are back in the saddle:

Michigan running back Kevin Grady has served a one-game suspension for absolutely plowed driving and will play in Michigan’s game against Miami of Ohio this weekend. Grady was arrested on July 2nd and charged with drunken driving after registering a blood-alcohol level of 0.281 percent, almost three-and-a-half time the state’s legal limit. Grady is reportedly still hung over.

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Disgraced Olympic champion Marion Jones has been released after serving a six-month sentence for lying to prosecutors about the steroid use that helped her win five medals at the 2000 Sydney Olympics. There’s no word yet on whether the tears she was squirting at her sentencing have been replaced with tattoos of tears representing the people she had to put down while on the inside. But don’t blame Marion for that. There’s only two options when you get locked up, and Marion ain’t nobody’s b:tch.

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Fenuki Tupou has served his one-game suspension for taking $100 and a free meal from LLM Sports Management representative Tim Norling. Tupou turned himself in for the violation last week. Norling sent an e-mail to the Associated Press disputing Toupou’s claims, insisting no money had ever been given to Tupou, and randomly stating that “at the end of the meal the player got into a late model Escalade and drove away.” Norling’s counterclaims suffer from both the absurdity of a guy making up a self-incriminating story and turning himself in to face certain punishment and from the unnecessary reliance upon an Escalade aspersion. Norling seems to have missed out on the Clemson defensive coordinator’s use of Escalade allegations a couple of weeks ago; or perhaps he just hadn’t noticed that It didn’t work out too well for the Tigers.

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