Have to agree with Dogg and Michelle on this post.

My son was in the same grade as a now infamous hockey player. My son's high school experience and now I believe even the rest of his life will be coloured by the assinine behaviour of a "sports hero". In the tenth grade my son sat in front of this "hero" in math class. The "hero" was such an asshole as to still be doing wet willies in the ears of his classmates including my son. Within a couple of months, this "hero" signed a multi million dollar contract with an NHL team. How do you suppose that makes the rest of his peers feel? The ones he bullied. The ones he made fun of. Yeah, they wonder about their value to society.

I've only ever been able to afford to take my two sons to one hockey game and one basketball game and yet the lingering taste in my mouth is of people who are immature and who abuse those around them. But it is these same people who society chooses to reward with massive salaries.

As for charity contributions, this person has given a grand total of $10,000 to a new arena campaign. This tells me that trickle-down doesn't work and probably is a distant myth.

Jerks, precisely.