We didn’t grow up idolizing Susan Richard Nelson. We didn’t check the newspaper to see what DeMaurice Smith was up to every day. We didn’t have posters of Billy Hunter on our bedroom walls. And we didn’t see Roger Goodell or David Stern in a single segment of Top-10 Plays.
I discovered a new sport last week: cycling.
I’m not going to lie and say I’d never heard of the Tour de France before, but it’s never been a focus of mine until now. On top of facing a bit of a gap in my schedule with the new soccer season in Europe still a month away and U.S. college sports mostly winding down for the summer, I’d been disheartened by the continual failure of British teams or athletes in general (compare, for example, the success of Spanish tennis players to their homegrown counterparts at Wimbledon). Still, cycling managed to catch my attention, at least for a few days.
That’s right, your favorite team’s first-round pick depends on which ping-pong balls are randomly chosen in a highly official, secretive process. Hey, if it works for other lotteries, why not the NBA?
This weekend the NBA actually got me interested
For a league predicated on inhuman athleticism, Griffin takes it to a new level. But he shouldn’t be the Rookie of the Year
Former Stanford basketball star Landry Fields ’10, who was selected in the second round of this year’s NBA Draft, was named the starting shooting guard for the New York Knicks by head coach Mike D’Antoni earlier today.
I would be lying out of my teeth if I told you that I’ve been remotely following Major League Baseball this year. I just learned that the Braves are winning the NL Wild Card race, and I recognized less than half of the starters in the Red Sox lineup three nights ago…
Jeremy Lin’s basketball career began just a few miles away from Stanford in a Palo Alto YMCA gym. Now Lin’s star is rising as a new signee to the Golden State Warriors–but he hasn’t made it yet, he says…