Its that time of the year; the Lakers are playing the Cavaliers and once again we bring up the age old topic, who is better? Lebron or Kobe? are we done comparing Kobe to MJ? is Lebron the next MJ? Through all the hoop-la tommorow, the focus will undoubtetly be on Kobe and Lebron who will little if all will be guarding eachother except for some rare fast break situations where quick matchups occur...

I have been an athlete my entire life. I have played all the sports available to me, except for hockey, only because it takes a lot of commitment to learn how to ice skate and shoot a puck which is not as easy as it seems. The concept of working my ass off was one that was always at the top of my mind. No matter what you do, not matter what the goal is, if you don’t work hard enough, you won...