Adding my tribute: What Kobe did for me

Kobe Bryant treated me with class, respect and professionalism.  

I want to add this rather small experience to the many tributes to Kobe Bryant. 

As many know, I spent several years working as a sportswriter, and during that time I spent a decade covering the Utah Jazz and the NBA. As part of my job, I had occasion to interview a number of athletes, including Kobe. 

Tell me I'm wrong, bro: Gervais calls out Hollywood, and man, was it deviously awkward

Ricky Gervais

Even at their best, neither Bruce Lee nor Chuck Norris ever eviscerated anyone quite like Ricky Gervais did. 

Bruce and Chuck were masters of martial arts. 

Gervais was simply the master of ceremony at Sunday's Golden Globes awards. 

The British actor/comedian, never a popular guy in Hollywood anyway (he's seen as too mean-spirited, I guess), stood in front of the A-list crowd and attacked its hypocrisy with the surgical precision of a Kung Fu master ripping a man's heart out of his chest, then showing it to him before he dies (like Bruce Lee himself). 

There are a few things we all can learn from a guy like Taysom Hill

Taysom Hill

I'm just going to admit it: I love me some Taysom Hill.

Now, I am a proud University of Utah alumnus, so it may seem strange to some that I'm writing about my devotion to an ex-BYU quarterback, but I don't care one bit. The truth is, rivalry be damned, I really liked this guy when he was playing for the Cougars, largely because I appreciated the way he played the game (and, let's face it, he never seemed like the type of guy who'd come unglued and start screaming about how he hated everything about the U of U).

Even back then he had a certain charisma that was undeniable.