You may have seen yesterday that former Pittsburgh Steelers running back Baron Batch is set to be arrested after he was identified vandalizing public property via graffiti, an act that he cited as artistic expression while acknowledging that he “broke the rules”.
That was, to be sure, not a terribly smart nor ethical decision on his behalf—nobody has the right to deface public property, which belongs to all, no matter what sense of artistic they might assign to the act—but aside from this little run-in, Batch is actually a good example of an athlete going on to find his “life’s work”, which I consider to be an important and underpublicized aspect of the game.