Heroics

My sympathies go out to the family of Jane Tomlinson. For someone to be told they had six months to live due to cancer, yet survive another seven years AND do all she did to raise funds and awareness for cancer charities... now that's inspirational, and way, way more heroic than kicking a ball around, and getting paid millions to nurse a stream of minor ailments insultingly referred to as "injuries".

Not in the same league, but still more deserving of hero status than soccer players, or doped-up "musicians", is Steve Irwin - can it really be a year already?