Today we learned that a fourth Michigan State University football player is under investigation for sexual assault. It’s a separate charge from the ongoing investigation of his three teammates.

Thirteen students at a Texas high school were arrested this week for sexually assaulting their teammates. On Monday a Midwestern State University cornerback was jailed for a sexual assault. At least three football players at Hamilton High School in Chandler, Arizona were arrested this week for sexually assaulting other players.

You know how to search Google News. I’ll just let you peruse the rest of the listings on your own.

But don’t tell me that there’s not a rape and violence culture that goes along with football. Because I Googled “sexual assault” with about 20 other sports and professions, and not one other search yielded multiple results in one single week.

But you know what, let’s pretend football is not unique. Let’s address the rape culture that exists in sports altogether.

A study was released last summer (right after Brock Turner was given a short sentence for his “20 minutes of action”) regarding undergraduate males and sexual coercion.

According to the study, which appeared in the journal Violence Against Women, 54 percent of male student-athletes said they coerced a partner into having sex. Of those who admitted to verbally or physically forcing a partner to have sex, many believed in statements like, “Women should worry less about their rights and more about becoming good wives and mothers” and “Women often allege rape to get back at men.”

Where does this leave me as a “good wife and mother”?

Tonight, it leaves me wondering why we continue to laud a sport that glorifies and rewards violence on the field…and continues to claim that its violent nature doesn’t affect players off the field.

And I’ll keep wondering, I suppose.