When I was searching for my first apartment in BROOKLYN many many years ago, my roommate and I were met at the door of a two-bedroom in WILLIAMSBURG by the youngish owner, who lived across the street. He didn't ask for identification. There was no application. We chatted for maybe 10 minutes, after which he said "You look like good people" and offered us the apartment. His meaning was unmistakable, because he knew almost nothing else about us. He meant we were white. This is the privilege I get to live with every day. I can scream about it and complain about it and join protest rallies about it and write about it and I still get to live with it. OSCAR PISTORIUS is white, male and an extraordinarily gifted athlete -- exactly the kind of good person for whom "long-term imprisonment will not serve justice," in the eyes of SOUTH AFRICAN JUDGE THOKOZILE MATILDA MASIPA. The judge happened to be sentencing PISTORIUS on WEDNESDAY for murdering his girlfriend by shooting her in the head. But never mind, because the former OLYMPIC sprinter "has punished himself and will punish himself for the rest of his life," the way good people everywhere do. PISTORIUS' sentence -- for, reminder, murder -- is six years. If the number six sounds familiar, that's the number of months that white male swimmer BROCK TURNER was sentenced in CALIFORNIA for sexually assaulting an unconscious woman. A longer sentence, the judge in his case said, "would have a severe impact on him." That's pretty much the definition of what prison is supposed to do. But not for everybody, apparently. This is the privilege some of us live with every day. This has never been OK, and it still isn't... In other sports crime news, while his rival CRISTIANO RONALDO was sending PORTUGAL to the finals of EURO 2016 with a beautiful header against WALES, LIONEL MESSI was facing a fine of €1.7 million (and a suspended prison sentence) after being convicted of tax fraud in SPAIN... DWYANE WADE taking his talents out of SOUTH BEACH... BILL SIMMONS on the mainstreaming of UFC... RIP LOU FONTINATO.