The bad stuff is easy. You read it almost every day to hear it in radio and television talking heads to discuss.
However, if the sport is a microcosm of society - this is - there are a lot of good things, too. And, as we celebrate Thanksgiving, here are some things to thank the record did not do anything this year, the World Series or the Super Bowl:
Battle of the coaches. Indianapolis Colts coach Chuck Pagano called his health problems, he came to the locker room room after the victory against the Miami Heat in a couple of weeks ago, and the first time to solve his team unexpectedly hospitalized just as his first season as head coach to start. , Pagano leukemia, an insidious disease, it is difficult to beat, no matter how hard you try to fight. A moving speech, you must pay attention to fully understand, Pagano vowed to dance, his daughter's wedding, held more than one Super Bowl trophy before he did the fighting. "This is already defeated. Pagano said," it has to beat his team.
Drug BUSTERS: It would have been very easy to Travis - Tygart and his researchers in the United States Anti-Doping Agency nail Lance Armstrong (Lance Armstrong), to give up easily. Federal prosecutors have been, if they are unable to establish a For Armstrong, it is difficult to imagine doing any-Doping Agency. Tygart pressure on the eventual establishment of a divided case, to create a facade of Armstrong, detailing the extensive and systematic doping programs, organized sports level not seen before. Yes, he won the American sports hero, and damage to his charitable work, but Tygart also sends out a message, a fair and competitive environment is very important. Sports, because it is a cleaner, better place.
BROOKLYN REBORN: No, the Dodgers did not come back. But, suddenly, Brooklyn is a sports city, to a new dollar, $ 100 million arena and Russian billionaire, his basketball team stopped. The New York Islanders will be moved in 2015, assuming, of course, solve then, NHL work stoppage.
British Invasion: Bradley Wiggins became the first Englishman to win the Tour de France, while Murray become the first British men's tennis requirements, in 76 years when he won the U.S. Open . Perennial loser, there is a spectacular sport in the UK, summer country will never forget, including the London Olympics, exceeded expectations at every turn.
VIN SCULLY: he is a national treasure, but Los Angeles would like to ask him for yourself. Time in the past 60 years, Scully has broadcast Dodgers, gave him a gift, the new Dodge owners announced he will be back at least one year at the age of 85, to call the game, because he always in solo announcer booth. In the interests of full disclosure, I was one in LA's children who go to sleep in my pillow at night with a transistor radio, listening to Vinnie.
RORY time: Over the years, golf fans waiting for the opponents of the great Tiger Woods to every David - Duval who came to be disappointed. McIlroy is the anti-Tiger, access and ground distance the incredible Northern Ireland batting, inner joy, Tiger Woods will never have the town of Hollywood superstar. McIlroy grateful, as his faithful partner with tennis star Wozniacki, has his own reason.
Boxing: Even if you do not like the sport, you will like the story. Jonathan Bank lessons he knows Emanuel steward boxing, so that when the housekeeper died a few weeks ago, the bank took over the coaching heavyweight champion Wladimir Klitschko. He Klitschko for his victory in Germany, Mariusz Wach corner, and then fly to Detroit memorial service butler. A few days later, he was reviving his career in Atlantic City, where he and a shocking knockout win Saturday night Seth Mitchell. This can put his title shot against, you guessed it: Klitschko, who he trained. Only in boxing. "All I can think of is that I am grateful 谢伊曼纽尔 housekeeper," Banks said.
Labor PEACE: OK, non-Hodgkin's lymphoma in the locked mode, and another lost season, the outlook is a gut check around the hockey fans. But in the NFL over the next decade will not lose a game, NBA has a new long-term transactions only worry about the owners and players in baseball, the new contract number zero. Of course, there are decent referee in the NFL again on the pitch, even if they occur vowed times.
Concussion: good things are happening in a silent epidemic of sports concussion blow. Brain analysis of hundreds of millions of dollars into research and awareness of the CTR can be life-saving head, NFL stadium's dangerous everywhere from a children's soccer field. Unfortunately, it was too late to pay their head against their lives every day hundreds of thousands of former players - NFL refused to own things.
BCS: the death of our long national nightmare is about to end. Bowl Championship Series, for all intents and purposes, is dead, killed 16-year-old fan revolt. This will replace four teams in the playoffs in 2014, although not perfect, will help to legalize the National Championship. At the same time, a possible Notre Dame Alabama championship game this season may be one of the biggest ever.
Opportunities: 40 years ago this summer, the U.S. Congress passed and President Nixon signed a bill, the bill changed the sport forever. Title IX has opened a women doing exercise, once unimaginable opportunities, and this is a gift, and will continue to for generations. Article IX of less than 30,000 female students to participate in sports in colleges and universities, a number now has increased nearly six-fold. About three million girls participated in high school sports today, 10 times to play sports in 1972. Women may never make a major breakthrough in professional sports, but now dedicated to female sports resources means that the dream of your daughter and granddaughter to do the things they do not before the movement.
Sports EXTRA: You pay for it more than you understand, every cable or satellite TV bill, because. The Yankees spend your money, so do the Knicks. There are so many new sports networks have sprung up, each want their own stock, the bill would continue the resistance until the customer finally pie. You ever get free price a lot, but the bargain, it really is. The diversity of sports on TV is amazing, more so generations grow up, ESPN, when watching sporting events means that a number of football games and baseball game Saturday week - and to get into the open channel to see it.
We live in a world sports fans options than ever greater. We can see the basketball on the deck of aircraft carriers, the hockey old infield of the baseball field, soccer fields and the NFL in London. Rather than parked in front of the TV, we can feed our seemingly insatiable sports fixed in laptops, tablet PCs, and even smart phones. If that was not enough, than ever before are more likely to have a little something riding on the game, whether it is paid in the form of a bet or a dream team.
However, there is nothing like a Saturday morning spent watching the kids play football, Thanksgiving at my house, street football game, and the relatives of all ages. Even the amazing technology of the times, there is room for a pickup basketball game at the local playground, tossing the ball in the grass in the park.
So, enjoy the turkey and the NFL on TV as well. Pumpkin pie save space, there is a game feast your eyes.
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