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NormWhat Is A Sporting Mind?
August 21st 2006 12:46
Two weeks ago I was flicking through the channels, when I landed on ESPN. Instead of a baseball, football or one of the usual sports they cover, they were showing a match from the American league of lacrosse. Now lacrosse is a game I have never seen, but in the end I was amazed that I watched the entire match.
It was a great game, with the lead changing between the two sides constantly, and the action on the field aplenty. After watching the game and scanning through the guide to see if there was another programmed to be on, I realised that I suffer from a ‘sporting mind’.
See a sporting mind is not just following a few different codes of sport, or even being extremely knowledgeable on one specific game, but rather being so obsessed with anything that resembles a competition. AFL, NRL, international cricket tests, Australian A-League, American gridiron football, NBA, English Premiership League, Major League Baseball, Olympic Games, Commonwealth Games, it doesn’t need much to have the sport-mind’s blood begin to race.
A sporting mind is not only following any forms of sport, but just loving the competition or even the idea of sport in general. If it involves two sides and ball and you have to watch it, then you might have a ‘sporting mind’. If you know how many days are left in the AFL season (42), how long until the first Ashes Test starts in Brisbane (95 days), or when the Beijing Olympics will start (1 year, 11 months and 20 days), then you might have a sporting mind.
Sporting minds are out there, and if you look closely they are everyone. They are the people who will automatically go to the sports section of any bookstore. They are the people who feel content walking through any sports clothing store all day just to look at the new jumpers and jerseys. They are the people at the bar who will not look away from the television in the corner that would be tuned onto whatever golf, rugby or boxing match happens to be on. If you look closely, you can see that these people are everywhere.
But this is a condition that someone should embrace, should love. This blog is to celebrate all the sport-minders out there. Whatever code, whatever form, whatever country, this is the section where no sport is vilified. The big issues, the recent news and all the controversy that ultimately unravels from any sporting event will be reviewed, and in the end probably talked about into the ground. But at least all us sport-minds will be at rest.
Until next time, sports fans.
It was a great game, with the lead changing between the two sides constantly, and the action on the field aplenty. After watching the game and scanning through the guide to see if there was another programmed to be on, I realised that I suffer from a ‘sporting mind’.
See a sporting mind is not just following a few different codes of sport, or even being extremely knowledgeable on one specific game, but rather being so obsessed with anything that resembles a competition. AFL, NRL, international cricket tests, Australian A-League, American gridiron football, NBA, English Premiership League, Major League Baseball, Olympic Games, Commonwealth Games, it doesn’t need much to have the sport-mind’s blood begin to race.
A sporting mind is not only following any forms of sport, but just loving the competition or even the idea of sport in general. If it involves two sides and ball and you have to watch it, then you might have a ‘sporting mind’. If you know how many days are left in the AFL season (42), how long until the first Ashes Test starts in Brisbane (95 days), or when the Beijing Olympics will start (1 year, 11 months and 20 days), then you might have a sporting mind.
Sporting minds are out there, and if you look closely they are everyone. They are the people who will automatically go to the sports section of any bookstore. They are the people who feel content walking through any sports clothing store all day just to look at the new jumpers and jerseys. They are the people at the bar who will not look away from the television in the corner that would be tuned onto whatever golf, rugby or boxing match happens to be on. If you look closely, you can see that these people are everywhere.
But this is a condition that someone should embrace, should love. This blog is to celebrate all the sport-minders out there. Whatever code, whatever form, whatever country, this is the section where no sport is vilified. The big issues, the recent news and all the controversy that ultimately unravels from any sporting event will be reviewed, and in the end probably talked about into the ground. But at least all us sport-minds will be at rest.
Until next time, sports fans.
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