That sports personalities over-romanticize their role and impact on the world is NOT a great secret. Players address their "role model" status on the daily, coaches are honored as philosophers and league officials project morality-syndromes on league policy. But, the Mitch Albomization of sports needs to end. Now. Take a look at Rick Reilly doing his best Mitch Albom impression:
Then, watch some of this:
I can't help thinking about the size of Albom's ears and all his talk about listening. I am not sure he hears anything at all, not even his own neatly packaged aphorisms for the people who don't like thinking.
So, Rick Reilly publishes a book about John Wooden on how to make love last. He'll give us a bunch of answers. People will scramble their lives trying to adhere to the opinions like dogma. And, in the end, nothing will have changed; these two guys line their pockets with the crocodile tears of someone else's stories.
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