Kevin Garnett - What a Guy

Kevin Garnett, a basketball player with the Minnesota Timberwolves won the J. Walter Kennedy Citizenship Award this year. It is awarded to honors an NBA player or coach for outstanding service and dedication to the community. He donated over $1.2 million dollars towards building 24 homes in the Katrina hit areas of last year. He has a foundation, 4XL that helps open computer labs to youth centers and schools in Minnesota. Many times we generalize professional athletes (especially Basketball Players) as maybe selfish or not in touch with the real world. Garnett has been a classy and honorable player from the beginning doing much of his charitable work under the radar. When it comes to basketball he had many chances to leave the Timberwolves for teams that have a better chance to win a Championship but never did. He stayed loyal with a mildly successful team for over 10 years (he entered the league when he was a teenager and has been nothing but an All Star since then).


I guess I should mention he is my favorite player :) Well if you watch this guy plays you will understand. He plays with incredible intensity, grit, and pumps up his teammates and the crowd with his energy. He is also the ultimate team player. Never takes a lot of shots, has great passing ability for a big guy, and he is an amazing defender against bigger bodies than his. MVP in the 2003-04 Season, Perennial All-Star, and much more.

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Tigers can't win the World Series!!!

Don't you hate it when a team comes out of no where and win it all. Sure its fun in the beginning when they make it to the playoffs, and the Cinderella story continues with them winning one series at most, but doesn't it start to suck as a viewer when you know there are better teams out there that lost because of it being a five game series (luck plays a much bigger role than if it was a seven game series). Like yeah cool, young pitching staff makes it to the playoffs, but don't beat out the Yankees (even though I hate the dreaded Yankees). Let Oakland take care of them in the second round. And you know what's worse, the fact that next year Detroit will be no where to be seen, please refer to exhibit A - the Florida Marlins in 1997, exhibit B - Arizona in 2001 (the one year the Yankees should have won it to break the sadness of 9/11), exhibit C - Florida Again in 2003, and finally last year champs the White Sox. What do they have in common, these guys won and that was it, they didn't make it again the playoffs. There are teams that deserve these championships, the Red Sox, Yankees, Cardinals, Minnesota, Oakland, teams that consistently make it there. Its fun when a team kinda creeps out of nowhere but it sucks when you know they don't deserve to go all the way. Its cooler when a team makes the playoffs, struggles for a bit then makes it eventually, its sweet, its deserving, its rewarding. I don't know that's what I think. All I gotta say is GO METS GO!!! Love that orange and blue Uniforms.

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