DOHA, Qatar -- Everyone makes bad choices. In sports, doping is a very bad choice indeed.

If and when the authorities catch up to you, what then? How do you respond?

Perhaps it would prove illustrative to compare and contrast the fortunes of two of the central track and field figures from the BALCO doping scandal.

There's Marion Jones.

And then there's Dwain Chambers.

Jones has done time in federal custody. She has given back her Olympic medals. Her track career is done, and now comes the news that she has just signed a contract to play basketball for the WNBA's Tulsa Shock.

So apparently we now know, when the rhetorical question is asked about how far the mighty fall, where they fall to.

Tulsa.

As a publicity move, kudos to the Shock. Marion Jones arguably just became the most famous person in the entire metropolitan Tulsa area.

If it's abundantly clear the Shock is using Jones, what does she get out of this deal? Adulation -- which she always did seem to enjoy? Attention -- and the rush of being back, sort of, in the spotlight?

Is this a legitimate career move -- or will it ultimately prove to evoke the freak-show element so common to so many minor-league sports promotions? Is the world really clamoring for 34-year-old point guards who haven't played in 15 years?