| It's not easy being a famous sports legend, especially if | | | | cycles even trumps stories far more crucial to the |
| you let your guard down and find out the hard way | | | | well-being of a nation and a world in extreme chaos |
| that your money will not hush up any mistresses or | | | | and peril. That seems ridiculous and unfair. But |
| buy you happiness. How the mighty have fallen. They | | | | unfortunately, that's just how it goes. You become the |
| so often do. Once the pinnacle of success and family | | | | lead story on all channels and on all tickers |
| life, this A-Lister has been flipped upside down by his | | | | simultaneously, all the time. |
| Adam-and-Eve thirst for lust. Just because you are | | | | I suppose that when you signed on to be who you are |
| mega rich and famous, and can woo any starlet you | | | | in the celebrity sports world, you signed up for the |
| choose, it will come back to haunt you sooner or later. | | | | consequences, too. Your privacy went out the window |
| And man, has it ever. Then, the cover-up begins as | | | | the day you began your quest to become the best at |
| fawning agents try valiantly to spin your every | | | | your sport, which without a doubt, you have |
| dalliance. If only it had just been steroids. | | | | accomplished. You've made your game so popular to |
| I'm sure it is very difficult to be at the top of your | | | | so many of your fans that they also avidly play the |
| game, with a fierce competitiveness that will not allow | | | | same game every chance they get. A lot of their zeal |
| you to suffer even one defeat easily after a | | | | for the game you play is because of you. You are the |
| seemingly endless stream of wins. But, when you lose | | | | most successful and elite spokesman, not only for |
| the biggest match of your life on the home front, | | | | your game, but maybe of all time (apologies to Michael |
| there's rarely a chance to overcome that kind of loss. | | | | Jordon). They buy your shoes, your equipment, and |
| There's nothing to avenge. Your game will most likely | | | | lots of other unrelated items that you pitch. But, you're |
| be altered forever. The saddest part may be that your | | | | fair game to the media now because of the frenzy |
| family will pay a price that is impossible to estimate. | | | | you have caused, both for the good things you have |
| I can't pretend to know what it's like to be in a position | | | | done, and now, for your bad example of how to be a |
| like this. How on Earth do you cope when every | | | | role model to the masses. Extremely unfair? Maybe. |
| camera, every reporter, every news outlet, and every | | | | But, whether you like it or not, it comes with the |
| tabloid is stalking each moment of your entire waking | | | | territory and the company you keep. |
| existence? This over-sensationalism of our news | | | | |
