The Kind-Hearted Smart Aleck

I read an ESPN article this morning, entitled, "Kobe Bryant sets mark for misses." When first reading the headline, I thought to myself, "Wow, did Kobe have the worst game of his career or something? Here I thought things couldn't get any worse for the Lakers." But, no, that wasn't the case. In the Lakers 107-102 loss to the Memphis Grizzlies, Bryant scored 28 points, collected 7 rebounds, had 6 assists, and 4 steals. No, the headline was with regard to Bryant's career. In his 10-26 shooting night, Kobe Bryant eclipsed John Havlicek atop the leaderboard for most missed shots over a career, which is now at 13,421. Since this is Bryant's 19th season, he's collected: Five championship rings, one MVP award, two Finals MVP awards, he's been a member of the All-NBA team 15 times (1st, 2nd, or 3rd team), has been a member of the All-Defensive team 11 times (1st or 2nd team), has been named Player of the Week on 33 occasions and Player of the Month...

As has been well chronicled in the past week, former Green Bay Packers' quarterback, Brett Favre, had some interesting things to say about current Packers' quarterback Aaron Rodgers. When he spoke on Atlanta's 790 The Zone last Tuesday (October 4th), he made the following comments: "I'm going to be honest, I was not surprised. The biggest surprise to me would be that he didn't do it sooner." (referring to Rodgers winning a Super Bowl) "He's (Rodgers) very bright and he got a chance to watch and see successful teams do it right. And so he just kind of fell into a good situation. On top of that, he's a good player. I don't think there's any pressure on him now, the talent around him is even better than when I was there." "Aaron had a chance...even though the last couple years it's seemed like he's almost a rookie, he's been around a while. And I'd like to think that he watched, he learned, and then when he...