Why sports figures are failing as role models

by Stephen Fortier

To set the tone for this article I will start by saying that sports figures are failing as role models because they are not groomed to be role models. They are groomed to hit 400 foot home runs, to rush for 2000 yards in a...read more

by Paul Erland

At what point, exactly, in our sports history as a nation did athletes come to be expected to be "role models?" It couldn't have been during the 1920s and 30s, when Babe Ruth was king. Everyone loved Ruth, but did every...read more

by BT Cassidy

It's important to understand why sports people were role models in the first place. Typically, twenty years ago, on a Saturday afternoon, most of us spent time engaged in some sport or another. Some of us played footbal...read more

by Bruce Bostwick

A question that comes to mind is how in the world do these sports icons fail miserably at being role models. Well, looking at the situation itself, it's probably because of picking the wrong people to look up to and it's ...read more

by Islandbrze

We are failing our star athletes by giving them such huge salaries and no guidance on how to deal with the celebrity status they will soon be experiencing, thus leading to their failures as role models. All young, new p...read more

by Joshua Kopp

Charles Barkley said it best, "I don't want to be your child's role model." and nor should he. Why exactly do we as people put athletes up on a pedestal? Yes, they do compete to be the best in their chosen field on a ...read more

by Michael Fazio

Normally around my birthday (Yesterday, the 10th) I'm just thinking baseball and maybe the NHL Playoffs. I'm worrying about how the Cubs and Brewers are doing, as well as my fantasy teams (I still can't believe I dropped ...read more

by Bob Schmidt

Many athletes fail as role models because they are immature, spoiled brats. They have achieved great success based upon one thing only, performance in their given sport. It is not really their fault, they are the prod...read more

by John Graham

Sports figures appear to be failing as role models because it is only in recent years that the media has elevated them to universal icons. Moreover now sports figures are earning so far in excess of their societal value th...read more

by Ron Hughes

Young people need someone to look up to. By virtue of their achievements and their celebrity, accomplished athletes have long been considered natural candidates for the position. Once upon a time, these athletes accepted a...read more

by David Andrews

Professional sports people are not bad role models, at least not any worse than any other occupation that is constantly under media scrutiny. Why all the pressure on athletes to be fantastic people and humanitarians. Surel...read more

by Ryan Werner

The age old question many Americans love to ask is should athletes be role models? The simple answer is that they have no obligation other than to perform to their highest capability for their respective teams. It is our r...read more

by Edward Dalton

Most of those who believe that people who are to be admired because he or she has the ability to excel to the professional level of a sport are they themselves sitting the stage for disappointment to make its arrival. ...read more

by Marceline Perry

Sports figures failing as role models. First, people have to understand that sports figures or not, role models or not, they're still human. They still make mistakes. No jersey on our back, bat in our hand, or football hel...read more

by Ted Sherman

Those jocks aren't failing as role models. Most today just don't give a damn when someone else decides stars should act like a positive role model. Why should they? If you are taken from a childhood of poverty and obscu...read more

by Ray Hobson

Do we go to the races and send scowling messages to the dogs for being dogs. Are we infuriated that horses do not break free from their harnesses, and hurl their slave-driving jockeys twenty feet into the air. Surely, th...read more

by Alex Dones

Whether athletes like it or not they are role models to thousands if not millions of kids throughout America. Unfortunately many of them don't act it and our society as a whole suffers. We see it all to often. Guys getting...read more

by Ron Robbins

The reason why sports figures often fail as role models is because they're human as everyone else is. And even more, it takes a lot of hard work and effort to become a sports celebrity. Often you have more seclusion from ...read more

by Achilles Windsor

I don't think that it is truly fair for people to say that sports figures are failing as a whole. However, when an athlete makes a major decision for the negative in his life, we all see it in the newspapers, telev...read more