It seems there comes a time, for those in the public eye, where one runs the risk of maxing out their public persona to the point where they become a caraceture of themselves. Am I saying Shaun White has done that with this Rolling Stone cover? No, I am just saying he is getting pretty damn close: American flag pants, pissing gasoline on a snowboard fire, shirtless with a gold medal. The guy is awesome, no doubt: women want to be with him and men want to be him. But really, I get it. Shaun White is the man, there is no sense beating me over the head with this.

I'll let this go, right after this quote: "I think about what people will think in the future when they see my face too... I don't know what I want them to think of, but I definitely wouldn't want it to be snowboarding, because there's so much more to me than that." Man, I love that last line. Check it out in all its glory: http://www.rollingstone.com/rockdaily/index.php/2010/03/03/shaun-whites-big-air-and-big-hair-the-new-issue-of-rolling-stone/