Men only: What Bryant teaches us about ‘manning’ up

By the time Bryant was winning three BB championships in a row, Kenyan dudes had moved on to being obsessed with the EPL (Shutterstock)

I will not pretend that I was ever a basketball fan -- ever.

Five-foot-sixers seldom are. I knew the name ‘Kobe Bryant’ the way you do that of Tiger Woods or Roger Federer, never mind that you have never held a golf club or tennis racket in your hand, or are interested in either sport. But because, like Bryant, these guys have been around, and world famous, for this entire century.