Does Marion Jones wants to be a professional basketball player?”
SAN ANTONIO — Five months ago, Marion Jones gave birth to her third child, Eva-Marie. Fifteen months ago, Jones was getting out of a Texas prison after a six-month stay for lying to federal investigators. Just over two years ago, she stood before the public and, teary-eyed, admitted to cheating her fans, friends, family, sport and country by using steroids before the 2000 Summer Olympics. Amazingly, Jones — who went from the most famous omen’s track star to the most infamous — looked on Monday during a three-hour workout of agility drills, weightlifting and playing basketball in a church gym here as if she had never been through whatever discomfort there may be in childbirth, or, more to the point, through what was her own personal hell as a confessor. “This is a second chance for me,” Jones, now 34, told me in explaining her still youthful appearance highlighted by her trademark bright smile.
From suntimes.com: Marion Jones wants to be a professional basketball player Marion Jones, the disgraced track star who admitted to using steroids before winning three gold medals at the 2000 Summer Olympics, is eyeing a comeback as a professional basketball player. Jones spent six months in jail for lying to federal agents in an investigation that involved the BALCO drug ring. She’s been training with San Antonio Silver Stars assistant coaches Sandy Brondello and Olaf Lange in hopes of regaining the form that helped her lead North Carolina to the 1996 NCAA championship. That, coincidentally, was the last time Jones played organized ball — although she was drafted by the Phoenix Mercury in 2003. At 34 and away from the game for so long, it’s tough to say exactly what type of impact she would have if an WNBA team took a chance on her. Kevin Blackistone provides a human touch to the story over at AOL, chronicling Jones’ ongoing quest for
