To some, Michael Vick probably seemed genuinely contrite in the press conference that followed his guilty plea today. Don't believe a word of it -- he's just trying to get out of jail.

As much as I despise the mob-like self-righteous outcry that highly publicized scandals usually create, in Vick's case consider me firmly on the bandwagon. I have a 9-month-old rescue dog named Ginger, and she's the sweetest creature I've ever laid eyes on. She's also a pit bull. When my fiancée and I found her, she was four months old, and one of her ears was sliced in half -- apparently, some asshole was trying to make her more "fight ready" but then wimped out. (And, for the record, she's never tried to bite another dog's throat out.) We like to think that her old battle scar adds character.

Unlike Vick's dogs, who will most likely be put down because all they've been trained to do is kill. Ginger's one of the lucky ones. When Vick gets sentenced on Dec. 10, I'm keeping my fingers crossed that he gets at least a few months in the clink.

On Monday Night Raw, the supposedly "dead" Vince McMahon, owner and CEO of WWE, shared sobering news of the death of wrestling superstar Chris Benoit and of Benoit's family. By Tuesday night, though, the facts had come forward that the demise of Benoit and his family was at the hand of Benoit himself.

So on Tuesday night, after remembering Chris Benoit as a hero just 24 hours earlier, McMahon cannot distance himself from Benoit quickly enough. And who could blame him? Early reports suggest that the "Canadian Crippler" murdered his wife and son over a two-day period before hanging himself. Now, there are obvious reasons why Mr. McMahon, and the WWE by extension, cannot discuss Chris Benoit any further (reasons such as a police investigation), but to make such a show of actively distancing wrestling from Benoit is about seven different kinds of shady. The outrage sparked by the Benoit tragedy has pointed the spotlight squarely on the lifestyle of professional wrestlers: over the last twenty years, pro wrestling has accounted for more premature deaths among athletes than virtually all the other major sports combined. A brutal travel schedule and heavy steroid abuse are but two of the reasons for the rampant physical and psychological breakdowns. Pro wrestling's lack of accountability is another.

The saddest part of all is that the big wrestling machine will just keep chugging along, as is clearly exemplified by John Cena -- a man not fit to carry The Rock's jock -- sprinting into the ring in front of a sell-out crowd without any fear of reprisal. And that is the real tragedy.

From an eventful weekend in sports that included Nadal beating Federer, the return of Roger Clemens, and America snoozing through game 2 of the NBA Finals, it was Montreal that produced one of the shock highlights of the year.

Overshadowing the groundbreaking achievement of international sensation Lewis Hamilton, the first black man in history to win a Formula 1 race (a superstar making huge waves globally, known only to precious few in the US), was this terrifying wreck suffered by Polish driver Robert Kubica. Amazingly, Kubica sustained only minor injuries. As morbid as this video is, it is definitely worth viewing -- if only for the first person POV shot of the driver immediately trailing Kubica, who had no choice but to whiz through the twisted steel carnage.