The past week has shown us how sport stars should conduct themselves - and how they should not. Showing us the right path is humble tennis champion Ash Barty.
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On the flipside, we have another tennis player Nick Kyrgios, whose on-court histrionics continue to baffle and annoy us. Why, we ask, does someone with so much talent insist on behaving so poorly?
And we have Israel Folau, the cashed up, code-swapping evangelist who soared the heights of incredulity by, first, breaching his employment contract by publishing offensive anti-gay material on social media and, second, appealing for funds from the public to take his battle with Rugby Australia to court.
One can dismiss Kyrgios as an immature little boy, prone to tantrums when it doesn't go his way. It's annoying but the only people it's hurting are Kyrgios and the fans who pay good money to watch him perform.
Not so, Folau. His actions, in these supposedly more enlightened times, are likely to cause deep psychological harm among those he has chosen to target.
And you can forget the old freedom of speech argument. Voicing your opinion in a small group of like minded people is very different to publishing, which is what posting your unfiltered thoughts to social media technically is.
The act of publishing carries the same responsibilities whether it's on a social media platform like Instagram, Twitter or Facebook or in a printed newspaper. There is no shortage of court cases to demonstrate that fact.
If Folau wants to test the law, he is most welcome to. If he thinks legislation is required to change workplace regulations, he is free to fight that battle. But, for heaven's sake, he should bankroll that process himself and not try to exploit the goodwill of his fans via GoFundMe.
The fundraising website closed down his appeal - and for good reason. Like Rugby Australia, it recognised Folau's pronouncements on homosexuality were discriminatory and not in line with its own values.
The public backlash against Folau's push for public help to fight his legal battle was entirely predictable.
Someone with such a handsome property portfolio, whose earnings from the various forms of football he's played are stratospheric is in a different league from the ordinary folk trying to pay for cancer treatment or dealing with other misfortunes.
