The Steve Smith situation is a sticky one in Carolina. In some ways, a team should look at an injury like Smith’s broken arm - suffered in a flag football game - the way it would a skiing accident, the result of a physical risk taken outside the team’s work. But the Panthers are choosing not to come down on Smith for something that just as easily could have happened on their own grounds as a result of his trademark competitiveness. Have to wonder if Carolina uses it as an example, despite the lack of punishment. Source: Boston Globe
