I am not quite sure that in this rambling, rather incoherent and unorganized post that I will come close to giving a good reason why I started a sports blog. While I have other priorities, sports has always been a passion for me. I grew up 15 minutes from The Palace Arena and practiced the helmets colliding in the opening montage of Monday Night Football before I think I could talk. I learned to read because I would watch Sportscenter and learn the names of the teams and the players. Growing up, sports was not an outlet, it was just a part of life. My spring semester of my senior year was the first season since I could remember as being free of any obligations of being on some sort of a team (I did run my first half-marathon that semester, so maybe that doesn’t count).

Now, at 27, my glory days are over and I am reflecting on how sports has impacted me. It gave me friends, an identity, and kept me out of many situations that others found themselves in when they had too much free time. I suppose I choose to start a sports blog for the simple fact that, it is my way of giving back. Not to mention the homework tat it is! Do I expect anyone to read this? No, not really. Do I hope that they do? Sure. Would I love to be a part-time blogger as a side to my “normal” job? Of course. But if that never comes, and if this blog ends up consisting of 10 posts, that will be okay too.

Sports mean a lot to me, they have helped me be who I am, so I hope that in some way, we (that is if anyone reads this) can go through life together enjoying sports, agreeing and disagreeing, but all the while acknowledging that sports is something special when it is shared.