Athletes Who Inspire

I chuckle to myself each time I hear about an NBA player wanting $50M per season…sorry, but Dwayne Wade, Lebron James and Kobe combined shouldn’t earn that much…just my opinion…and on a daily basis, I wonder why more people aren’t inspired by ‘handicapped’ athletes- and when I say handicapped, I don’t mean mentally (as in ego-run-wild) – I mean physically…in a perfect world, Ego Games wouldn’t exist during NBA lock-outs, neither would temper tantrums…why aren’t we paying more attention to those athletes that truly inspire…athletes without limbs are competing at astonishing levels without millions of dollars or one-fifth of the media recognition they deserve. Recently, I was told that I’m missing the ‘Athlebrity’ mark by not giving props to any Kardashian married to an athlete. I have thus far refused-and will continue to refuse-writing about someone just because of their last name. That’s not me. Blind hero worship is for the dogs. If you get paid to attend a charity event, you don’t fall under the ‘sincerity umbrella’ for me. Apparently I shouldn’t be so altruistic in this business…I should ignore athletes like French fencing athlete Delphine Bernard (L) fighting with Hungarian Veronika Juhasz during the 2011 World Wheelchair Fencing Championships in Catania.

Or maybe I should overlook athletes like Kyle Maynard? Stud is a motivational speaker and MMA fighter who recently joined the mighty-mighty-fine team at AccesSurf for a surf session.

Seriously, if you are looking for gossip about how Lamar Odom sleeps in a separate home from his wife, you are on the wrong blog. Maybe, just maybe, if a Kardashian were as altruistic as some, we’d have a better world…until then, I press onward, altruistically.

As always, thanks for reading~
delinda@athlebrities.com