Today, I came across the story of Eric Frimpong, star UC Santa Barbara soccer player, and (wrongly) convicted sex offender.

I've linked the original ESPN article, but aside from this YouTube video, and a handful of blogs, I can't find the story mentioned on any major news network. Therefore, here's the short version: Frimpong was indicted, tried, and convicted in 2008 of raping a UCSB freshman, despite the complete absence of any physical evidence linking him to the crime. To make matters more difficult, his accuser admits she cannot remember many details of the attack, as she had been drinking much of the evening (her blood alcohol level registered at 0.2), except that her attacker had "big lips" and an "island accent." It would be easy for me to preach on the dangers of sex and alcohol and the re-victimization of assaulted women by blaming the liquor, but I won't do that. I'm not qualified to talk about that, and I don't want to. Yet.

That brings me to the question, what happens with this now? A dialogue on the case seems inevitable, but what should we talk about? Race, sex, or the sometimes haphazard collision of both? Where do we start? How do we advocate for justice for both Eric and the assaulted woman?

Help me out here, guys.

Clinton Portis wrote a candid piece in ESPN magazine on the precautions many NFL pros are taking since Sean Taylor's murder. 

God Bless the Taylor family and the legacy of Sean Taylor.