Kobe Bryant, Call Of Duty and Social Responsibility Among Athletes

An ESPN.com headline yesterday directed me to a story about Kobe Bryant and the video game “Call of Duty: Black Ops,” but from a decidedly different point of view.

Interviewed for the piece was Todd Walker, a youth football coach in northern California who also happens to work at a funeral home. In the context of an urban gun culture that claims the lives of far too many young people, Walker argued it’s irresponsible for Bryant to actively promote a game that Walker believes glorifies gunplay.

And with that, I had to ask myself: Just how socially responsible should we expect our athletes, and by extension entertainment celebr...

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