"Are professional athletes that crucial to the world?" This post is targeted to all professional athletes. When you decided to become athletes you were told that it requires a life long commitment. You must eat, breathe, and sleep the sport you chose to pursue a career in. It only requires hard work, discipline(Which alot have regular problems with), and respect for the community you represent as well as the consumers(Fans) of your product. If someone wants to be a lawyer, doctor, or maybe a college professor, it requires tens of thousands of dollars, 4+ years of schooling, and a similar dedication to their respected fields of career choice. Most professional athletes are simply blessed with a natural ability, size, strength, or speed in most cases. You really are not much more than a circus act. I, the consumer, pay anywhere from let's say... $20-$200 for a ticket to go watch you play a game that children can understand and play. I go to the Zoo to see animals for similar reasons. Also because of the animals size, shape, or ability to do something that entertains me. You are in a profession that is a form of entertainment, nothing more. I feel, as a consumer of your product, that you are extremely unappreciative, disrespectful, and flat out arrogant as a whole. Can you build a house for a family to live in? Can you perform surgery to save someone's life? Can you do anything pertinent for the human race? Get over yourselves, behave like a mature adult, and live as if you have more purpose than to play a child's game in front of people in large masses. I understand that your bodies go thru tremendous strain over the course of your careers, but it's the same for a man or woman that works building homes, teaching people, flying an airplane, or transplanting organs. I know not everyone has some of the abilities, talents, or physical attributes that you do, that is all the more reason to appreciate the opportunity you have instead of treating it like you do. When is it enough money? When is it enough fame? All I see with the behavior exhibited most of the time is that it is too much of both. Sometimes it is a shame that such gifted individuals have such little respect for the communities they live in and represent as athletes.

R.I.P. Beano Cook, 1931-2012. He was a college football genius, greatly loved by ESPN and fans across the country.

The Yankees win in dramatic fashion. Typical Yankee Stadium action, 12 innings, pinch-hit homerun, and a win in the bottom half. Great, the Yankees did what a $200 million dollar payroll should do... WIN! Across the country in California there was a game of baseball as well, one equally as dramatic! In Oakland the Athletics trailed the Tigers 3-1 going into the bottom of the 9th, and came back to pull out the victory forcing Game 5! San Francisco also forced a Game 5 with Cincinatti, oh America's past-time is looking good right now!! In light of the "Outfield Fly Rule".... St. Louis is looking as sharp as ever, without LaRussa and Pujols. Hard to pick a winner right now, I am happy to see that MLB Umpires aren't consistently as bad as the replacement refs in the NFL a couple weeks ago. HOORAY FOR BASEBALL!! Game 5's, and potential Game 5's, I'm lovin' it!