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It hasn’t been a good month for athletes and the women who meet them. In fact, it hasn’t been a good couple of decades. Gang rapes on campus now seem to be reported as often as keg parties. High-profile professionals face allegations of assaulting their wives faster than they cash seven-figure checks. Warren Moon. Bobby Cox. Sugar Ray Leonard. John Daly. Darryl Strawberry. The band plays on. Some charges are valid, some are not. But enough settlements have been paid, enough sentences have been served, to suggest the abuse of alcohol and drugs belongs second on the list of sports ills, right under the abuse of women.