Day 2: The Sports Page

If the Seminoles, Dolphins or Braves are in the headlines, I would probably read some of the story.  Traditionally, I just skip through the Sports section in search of something more interesting, like the obituaries or what kind of paint is on sale at Home Depot.  Today I have read, for the first time, the entire Sports section.  I have to admit that I learned something.  First of all, people in sports have names like "Tank" and "Dalton" and "Jimbo."  Apparently, that helps, so if you want your kid to be a sport's star, perhaps a name that sounds like he/she could mow down a lineman would be of assistance.  Maybe just add an "O" to an ordinary name.  If only I would have gone by Karen-o, perhaps I would have been a better tennis player.  There are quite a few headlines that have a life/death quality to them..."uphill battle,""continues comeback," and "Manuel, not Ponder, Saves 'Noles."  We all have been there when the game is on the line and truly, it does seem like a life or death situation.  Damn "wide right."  Damn Joe Montana beating Marino in the Superbowl.  Whatever.  There are a few things in the Sports section that nobody in the south really cares about.  Hockey, for instance.  Thank God it is not the season right now, as I would have had to have read more useless crap. One other thing that I never noticed before that there is a ginormous list of injured people from various teams.  Seem to be quite a few people collecting paychecks from the sidelines.  Nowhere else, but sports!  Gotta love it (or hate it).