Regardless of what circumstances led to Jaguars cornerback Aaron Colvin’s four-game suspension by the NFL for using performance-enhancing drugs, he did the best thing by owning up to his mistake.
Too many athletes in sports try to plead ignorance, insist they’re being railroaded or give a nebulous explanation for a positive test. Anything that involves deflecting blame elsewhere is always a bad move, as people like Marion Jones, Floyd Landis and Lance Armstrong painfully discovered.
Colvin got it right by breaking the news on Twitter with a statement apologizing for his transgression, then adding “I will not let this define me and I will overcome this.