Michael Vick - Do we really care?

Just turn on Sports Center or look on sports web sites and one of the top stories is former Atlanta Falcon quarterback and convicted felon Michael Vick being released from federal prison and going back to his home, where he is under house arrest for the last part of his sentence for dog fighting.
Why do we care? Why do we want that to be the first story we see? Does it matter that he got out of prison? Do we really want to know what he is going to do his first day at home? (That actually was one of the questions the ESPN reporter on site at Vick's home reported on). Who cares? I know I don't care but am I the only one?
It is said that news reporters only report on what the public wants to hear. If people did not want to hear about the MLB player who is cheating on his wife, then they would not report about it. If people were not interested about the NBA player who is caught with a concealed weapon then nothing would be on Sports Center about it. But most people don't want to hear about that stuff, they want to know about actually sporting events, what is going on the field, not off of it. But all we get is non-stop coverage of off the field problems.
Do we really need to know or even care what time Michael Vick got out of prison and if he was going to fly home or drive? But at the top of each hour, that was what was being reported. Instead I want to see highlights of the Nuggets-Lakers game one Western Conference Final and here insight from the game. But what, lets first go to Virginia and find out what Michael Vick is going to eat this morning at his house.
Michael Vick committed a crime and he is getting more air time and print now then when he was with the Falcons. News outlets need to start covering what is one the field and not off the field because we don't want to hear about it.
The next time I want to hear Michael Vick's name is when he is actually playing on an NFL football team and not what is job is going to be for the next two months and what size of ankle bracelet he has to wear.