Sports in general

I have become slightly disillusioned and I guess maybe less tolerant lately of sports in general. I think maybe it is due to several factors. I am in the camp of banning Gilbert Arenas forever from NBA, this due to his inability to actually show any intelligence and maturity, dispite being given lots of opportunities to do so. This latest fiasco with the weapon in the locker room just exemplifies the need to go extreme and ban him for good. People including him will argue against such extreme measures for the "reason" that he was asked by people close to him to take weapons out of home and bring them in to arena, for whatever reason, that is all well and good. BUT and this is a huge BUT, that does not excuse away his attrociously bad judgement in bringing them out in what he calls a bad attempt at a joke or all his lack of remorse or good judgement since the incident occurred and came to light, trying to joke about incident with reporters and pretending to gun down teammates in huddle. Why should league waste their time and keep him around?!? He is no rolemodel, which unfortunately for Chuck Barkley and every other pro athlete is, no matter if they want to be or not. That comes with the territory, you want to be an athlete, make obscene amounts of money have the fame, then expect to be scrutinized and watched on what you do by those around you and sadly often imitated. Hmmm.

On role models, do we realize, each and everyone of us are a role model for someone? Yes, it is a huge responsibility, but equally an incredible opportunity also. Embrace and accept it, for that is life, and then go and be the person God has called you to be, both before Him and all those around you.

I have become less tolerant of foolish behavior, including overhyping of sporting events by the media and excusing of bad behavior by them as long as you are rich and famous and make an impact in both their lives and ultimately their wallets. Tiger, Gilbert Arenas, Michael Jordan, Brett Favre all do horrible things toward those around them and people they work with and the media excuses it and we the public just accept this action as "just the way it is," why is that? We the public can make a huge difference by calling these people and their actions into question, yes one person can make a difference, it's through that one person that others become aware and begin to change alongside them and before long it is millions of people changing and not accepting status quo. hmmm, just something to think about