The Kind-Hearted Smart Aleck

The NFL's image has been significantly marred in recent weeks due to a number of cases surrounding domestic violence. While the league's commissioner Roger Goodell has attempted to take a few steps in the right direction on this front, the league still has a long way to go. Fortunately for Roger Goodell, whose image has gone from bad to downright sickening during this time, he has stand-up players like Seattle Seahawks quarterback Russell Wilson to aid him on the matter. While I'm fairly neutral when it comes to teams in the NFL, or any sport for that matter, it's difficult not to like and pull for Russell Wilson, who came into this league as an undersized quarterback, wasn't given much of a chance to be an elite-caliber quarterback in this league, has led his team to a Super Bowl victory in his short time there, and continues to showcase that he's a good, decent human being away from the field as well. Wilson continued that do-good trend when he recently in...

I'm all for donating to good causes and doing all we can to find potential cures for a number of debilitating and/or deadly illnesses, however, I also don't think it makes a whole lot of sense to risk many people's lives in a Jacka*s - type of stunt in order to do so. Of course, I'm referring to the Ice Bucket (Water) Challenge, where willing participants have to either donate money to the ALS cause (or other causes) within a certain duration of time or have a bucket of ice cold water dumped over their head. Many people have decided to both donate and have the bucket of water dumped on them, and to the cause's credit, it has raised over $15 million for ALS research. However, while rare, at least one fatality has been linked to this challenge, and former neonatal pediatrician Dr. Stephen Wealthall hopes it comes to a halt before anyone else dies. On July 7th of this year, Willis Tepania (40) died after going into cardiac arrest after having water poured over hi...