From the Buffalo News:

If you never heard of Buffalo Bills rookie offensive tackle Demetrius Bell, you’ll be rooting for him when I tell you his story. Bell is the son of [Karl] Malone, but the Mailman had no role in Bell’s success except passing along athletic genes. The two have had very little contact during Bell’s life. His mother, Gloria Bell, reportedly was only 13 years old and Malone a college sophomore at Louisiana Tech when Demetrius was born. Malone might have served jail time had her family asked the district attorney to file criminal charges. Bell didn’t even know Malone was his father until after graduating from high school. When they finally met, Malone told the 18-year-old Bell it was too late to be his father, and that Bell would have to “earn his money on his own.”

First of all, no one welcomes this news more than Roger Clemens who's probably saying "13 years old? Now THAT'S sick." Second, I don't know who the Buffalo News, the Salt Lake District Attorney's office or Demetrius Bell think they are, getting all judgemental here. Does everyone need to be reminded who we're talking about? This is Karl freaking Malone. What... are there law against a pro athlete impregnating a 13 year old girl? Since when? If you're going to hold athletes to Age of Consent laws, where will our society be? The ability to bone any female you want is part of their rights as ballplayers. It's called the "Double Standard" and it's right there in the Constitution if Demetrius would just take the time to read it. When they build a statue of you, it means you can boink anyone, regardless of what it says on their birth certificate. It's part of the incentive for these guys to enter the thankless world of professional sports in the first place. What would happen if guys like Malone and Clemens were required to stick only with adult women? Who would give us thousands of hours of competitive entertainment? Lesser mortals that's who. That's a world I for one don't want to live in. Rock on, Mailman. (Thanks to J. Fitz for the story)