Since I gave up on pro sports long ago, back when tickets were still affordable and politics stayed outside the gates, I use it now as a means to find humor. The stories that involve hypocrisy are typical.
Most of us knew it was coming – the end of the 2020 football season. Some parents, grandparents, friends, coaches, much less the players are still hopeful that it won’t end, that things will miraculously resume to some semblance of normalcy when school is set to begin next month, but given the spread of this new (novel) coronavirus, and new reports that it is attacking the young more than originally thought, that hope seems like a dream at best.
Selena Vargas has always liked to run. But she wasn't aware of the joys, connections, and friendships that organized sports could bring her.
College football fans in the Valley, especially those who follow the richest teams – UT-Austin and Texas A&M – are like few I’ve ever seen. Those two teams, and others across the Lone Star State, have passionate fans that date back decades, a century. People in their 60s still go crazy about “their team.” Can’t beat that. I used to follow the Wisconsin Badgers, but even those fans don’t compare to Texas’s fans in my book, pardon the gambling pun.
Followers of the NBA already know that the league is currently trying to finish its season inside a bubble. Meaning, a quarantine bubble. Here’s how it is supposed to work, according to its entry at Wikipedia.org:
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