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The Sports Chick
The Sports Chick is a new column that
details the life and times of sports, through the eyes of a woman.
What can we say....girls rule.
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October 15, 2007
Pre Season Basketball
By
The Sports Chick
It’s
almost that time again. Basketball time. My absolute favorite
sport out there. The crowd cheering, whistles blowing, coaches
yelling, players just playing the game...it gives me goose bumps
just thinking about it. What an exhilarating feeling.
As
football season dwindles down, I can smell the anticipation of hoops
in the air. What is the 2007-2008 season going to hold for the
county teams? What huge upsets are we going to get the privilege of
witnessing? I can’t wait to find out.
Getting
to see some great b-ball games unfold in front of me and some great
rivalries battle it out is such an exciting site to my eyes. It’s a
rush that I live for. I just love high school basketball.
So, get your stand seats
dusted off, your cheering voices warmed up and go out and support
your team because it’s nearly 5-on-5 time!
October 6, 2007
Post Season Baseball
By
The Sports Chick
I’ve always known baseball to be America’s pastime. Well, to me,
it’s more than that. It’s a way of life. I absolutely love watching
the major leaguers battle it out on the diamond.
Right now, its playoff time and I could not be any happier! There’s
just something about this time in October and Major League Baseball.
I guess it’s the excitement, the hope that my team will take it all.
I get an adrenaline rush when a hard line drive just sneaks through
the tiny hole between the short-stop and third baseman or when an
outfielder flies through the air to attempt to catch a mile high
ball only then to smack right into the wall catching it or not. How
exciting is that?
To add to the excitement, there is nothing better than seeing a team
like the underdog Cleveland Indians beat the infamous New York
Yankees. Oh, how great it is! How great it is. Go Indians! Just FYI
they are leading their series 2-0! However, I want The Cubs to take
it all. They are my team and have been ever since I can remember.
Besides the Indians, I’ve been watching the rest of the divisional
series too and they have all been great. The Rockies, The Red Sox
and The Diamondbacks are all leading their respective series’ 2-0.
What a great start to what hopefully will end up being a great World
Series. I love baseball.
My pick is the Cubs versus the Indians for the final 7 games. Even
though the Cubs are down 2 games right now, I still hold hope (and
cheer) that they’ll come back. I am a true fan.
September 29, 2007
Youth Football Coaches
By
The Sports Chick
As a fan of football in general, I watch and go to a lot of games.
Whether it‘s the pros, college, high school or youth, I am usually
there or watching. Football is a big part of my life and I don’t
even have any of my own kids playing. I am at all of the youth games
because I go to support my nephews, ages ranging from 7 to 14. As I
sit there and watch, I cannot help but to also watch the coaches.
I can understand professional football coaches, college coaches and
even, in some circumstances, high school coaches getting upset to
the point of screaming and yelling and even some throwing tantrums
on television or throwing clipboards because their players aren’t
doing what they were told or even what they were taught. But to have
that in youth football is ridiculous to me.
There are coaches that are screaming so loud that I, along with
other fans, can hear them all the way up in the stands. On the Home
and Visiting sides, I might add. You also have coaches throwing
their clipboards because their son(s) screwed up at least according
to them, screwed up. I have seen it all. And all of this because the
kids may not be in their correct spot, they may not know that they
were even supposed to be on the field at that time or they just may
not understand the play at all. They are just little KIDS who are
still learning the whole concept of football and for an ADULT to act
that way towards them and in front of them is not right. Not right
at all.
I have coached before. I coached third grade basketball and I
coached first year t-ball this past summer so I know how frustrating
it is for the coaches. I felt that too at times, however, they are
just little kids. Give them a break. Let them have fun and play the
game just to play the game not just to win for you.
September 21, 2007
What Happened to True Fan
Support
By
The Sports Chick
When I was in high school I played basketball and softball. We
weren’t very good at times, but we tried hard and gave 110% every
single game.
I can recall an early morning away basketball playoff game in which
we were down by a lot at halftime. In our halftime talk, our coach
decided to give us some inspiration to finish the game strong. He
told us to go back out onto the court with our head held high and
look up in the stands and the people we seen were our "true" fans.
The fans that followed us day or night, home or away, win or lose.
He told us to finish the game for them and to say thank you to them
for staying and supporting our team even though we lost BADLY and to
also thank them for not giving up on us as so many others had that
year.
That has stuck with me all these years. Looking up into the stands
to see maybe 7 people total on our side was astonishing to me. I
truly understood then what our coach was talking about. The "true"
fan support that I witnessed that early morning has had me thinking
about where it has gone.
In some recent sporting events that I have attended in where we have
been on the losing end, I have noticed that by halftime most of the
self-proclaimed "true sports fans" were gone and the ones that were
left are the ones that are always left...parents of players, other
coaches, coaches’ wives and their kids. I think that is sad.
Sad because those players (and coaches, I might add) on that team
work hard each and every day to go out in front of you and give it
their all in the sport that they love. So, why can’t you so-called
"true" fans stay a little while longer and support YOUR home team
whether they are winning or losing. And especially when they are
losing and they need fan support the most.
So, I beg you to think about this the next time you get up to leave
early what if it were YOUR son/daughter on that field or court and
YOUR son/daughter looked up in the stands only to see that everyone
has left early? How do you think that would make them feel? My guess
is, not very good!
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