So, I'm nowhere near a sports fan - I'm only looking forward to this week's Stupid Super Bowl because I hear the commercials are going to be funny and my mom is serving good food - but I saw this article this morning that I thought was cool and thought I'd share.

From Sportsillustratred.com MIAMI (AP) -- Shaquille O'Neal put his police skills to use early Sunday. O'Neal, the Miami Heat's All-Star center and a reserve officer with the Miami Beach Police Department, followed a driver who allegedly crashed into his Cadillac Escalade and tried to flee the scene, the team said.

O'Neal and bodyguard Jerome Crawford followed the driver for about five minutes. When the driver, identified by The Miami Herald as 18-year-old Emmnueo Cibrin of Tampa, stopped near a gas station, O'Neal approached the car and summoned a nearby police officer....O'Neal was sworn in as a reserve officer in 2005. He has long said he intends to pursue a career in law enforcement when he retires from basketball.

I think a great deal of what we do in our lives is working towards our goals, our dreams. Though our goals may change and dreams may fade away, we still find ourselves working toward them. Sure, life throws us curve-balls - we all know that by now, but we still look back to where we came from. Whether O'Neal is just a generally decent guy (and probably extraordinarily tall) or was in the right place at the right time, I like to think that somewhere inside him is the little boy who just wanted to be a cop when he grew up.

I hope that I can help my children preserve that moment - these years - when they really can decide to be anything they want to be.