An e-mail from a friend of a friend that I find wonderful...
We can frame this question in a different way: shall we prefer Michael Jordan or his elder brother, Sgt. Major James Jordan, who recently had his thirty-year mandatory retirement waived so he could serve with his troops in Iraq. Jordan is a supreme basketball player, to be sure, but also an adulterer, a gambler, and a postmodern self-marketer to the hilt. I, for one, prefer the anonymous, self-sacrificing, morally meaningful heroism of the elder Jordan.
It would be a fine thing if kids rooted for the likes Sgt. Major Jordan instead of spoiled punks like Latrell Sprewell and Ron Artest.
http://www.cnn.com/2004/US/11/29/jordans.brother.ap/
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