Time for a question.

Quick, name your favorite sports team. Be specific. (Nebraska Cornhuskers is not specific enough, Nebraska Cornhuskers Women's Water Polo is.)

Tough enough? How about this one? Name your least favorite. Again Specific

Why Do We Care?

Why should you care about sports? Marissa always asks me why, or for that matter how, can I possibly care so much about sports, especially those involving teams that I have absolutely no vested interest in. Why is it that I can sit down and watch Monmouth College play Bryn Mawr in Lacrosse but I cannot sit through five minutes of Desperate Houswives. Moreover, how is it that at the end of the match I find myself cheering a last second goal and jumping up and down like a buffoon? I would hope that somewhere out there this is someone else like me who is so entrapped by Sports that they act the same way, but on a much simpler level, why do any of us watch any sporting event?

One argument is the idea of Bragging Rights. Another angle is the human interest stories about rough childhoods, lost family and friends, and return from all manner of injury. Yet another: entertainment. The list can go on and on for days.

So what do I think? They are all right. We all have our reasons for watching Sports, each of us has his or her own. Whether your reason is so you can carry on the Watercooler Conversation Monday, to entertain yourself, or just becuase you cant tear yourself away, keep watching, listening and reading. People like me need jobs.

First Post

Sport has an uncanny ability to unite an entire nation, even world, in a way that almost no other medium can. Nations come together as one to support a single team or athlete. Wars are postponed in lieu of athletic competition. For a few moments, every quarrel halts, every hatred ceases for one reason. What other medium has as profound an impact as Sport? The immediate argument is Religion, but while Sport halts wars, religion is at the very center of many. So why is it that sport transcends? That is what I hope to tell you through this Blog, assuming of course that I can find the answer myself. This Blog will serve not as a recount of sporting events, but as an examination of the human relationship with the intangibly-concrete idea that is Sport.