I was impressed to read about the latest twist from the story of the Honey Badger, former LSU cornerback, Tyrann Mathieu. Mathieu is an incredible football talent that has had trouble with substance abuse, among other things. His university, or the coaching staff, anyway, finally had enough and kicked him off the team, a fairly shocking thing to do considering how much of a blow to the team it will be.
Most people expected Mathieu to transfer to another school, possibly McNeese State, and play football elsewhere. The part of the story that I am impressed with is that he is, reportedly, considering staying at LSU, paying his own way through school this year, to get his life on track and prove to the football team, especially, I assume, Les Miles, that he is worthy of another shot:
http://espn.go.com/college-football/story/_/id/8264350/tyrann-mathieu-interest-staying-lsu-sources-say
You don't hear stories like this much in sports. You hear stories of things going wrong, sure. But you do not generally hearing athletes saying they messed up and then trying to do something about it.
Charles Barkley was correct when he said that athletes are not role models. But, nonetheless, kids, and even adults, look up to them. So when you hear of something like this, you want to applaud and pat Mathieu on the back.
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