Marion Jones is going to be separated from her pursuits of personal life, liberties and happiness for six months - an action which is the equal and just reward for crimes she committed against the United States government and against the sport of athletics.

I didn't revel in her demise when the news reached my computer yesterday, this despite having chased down leads and uncovered truths for five years which have become part of the case of The United States of America vs Marion Lois Jones. Her sentencing left me neither happy nor sad; there is an indifference I feel which is difficult to articulate, but the best way I can describe how I felt was that this won't be the end of the story for Marion Jones in this matter.

 Jones skated by with the minimum sentence federal judge, Kenneth Karas felt necessary to send a message to celebrities and sports stars alike; namely, don't lie and don't cheat.  Her having pled guilty in this case automatically disqualifies her from taking the Fifth Amendment in Trevor Graham's upcoming trial, and leaves her wide open for further trouble because she has still not come completely clean in this case.

Jones risks further questions she'll be forced to answer under oath, and risks even greater humiliation as she is forced to divulge information which she has kept under lock and key thus far into her game - some 11 years after she began playing with fire.

Karas didn't buy her story of being duped by Graham, and stated during his 20-minute sentencing lecture to her that she should have been keenly aware of improvements in her times and practices - especially for an event which is measured in fractions.

Jones has been involved with steroids since her return to the sport in 1997. Trevor Graham's indictment points Jones in that direction, and her own words of marked improvements after small adjustments to her training demonstrate not that Graham was a great technician, but that she found a formula for success which would transform her into a two-time, USA champion in an implausibly short amount of time.

Jones having been sentenced to prison yesterday isn't worth informing you about, as you have plenty of major and minor news channels from which to draw your headlines. There are no shortage of sensationalised catch-words to reel you in.

Yesterday, I stated that Jones would damn Karas if he handed her a sentence rather than a pardon.