"It's a great job, a fun job and a well-paid job, but it is a very stressful job," Bucks coach George Karl said. "We live in a world of losing and frustration and confusion and anger and intensity that most people don't live in."

We can agree with Karl to a point.

Despite its ability to bestow fame, glamour and riches on those gifted or dedicated enough to perform at that level, professional sports can often be a cold, hard and often brutal career path. The pressure is enormous. Instead of being conducted in the privacy of a boss' office, performance evaluations are done in the most public way possible, before thousands of people with replays at 10, 11 and midnight.

Generally speaking, mistakes go largely unnoticed in the corporate world; mistakes by athletes are made manifest each morning in the newspaper's box score.