As expected, Oprah did not go all James Frey on Marion Jones on Wednesday, instead asking the disgraced Olympic track star mostly softball questions. Jones, who is set to serve six months for lying to federal investigators about steroid use and her involvement in a money-laundering scheme, sat for her first interview since being sentenced on Jan. 11.Jones, who has two young children, had hoped for probation given the humiliation she has suffered since admitting her guilt in October. But U.S. District Court judge Kenneth M. Karas refused to let her off the hook, telling her "people live with their choices and the choice not to play by the rules has been compounded by the choice to break the law."Jones won five medals at the 2000 Summer Olympics (all of which she's given back to the International Olympic Committee), and claims that was the year she began using steroids. Her performances dating back to 1997 and 1998 seem to indicate that might not be the whole truth. It's unfortunate t...
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