What Game are We Playing? An Introduction

This Blog is officially underway, on its way, and under construction.

Here is where its going. Interests of mine include:

• Sports media: From ESPN's Around the Horn and PTI, to talk radio, to HBO's Real Sports what's good, what's crap, who knows there stuff, and who is full of hot air?
• Golf. The greatest of games.
• I grew up playing soccer, baseball, and basketball. I even played two of these sports in college. Today, I love to surf, ski, and play golf. I also play some squash and practice yoga and I love the outdoors. I believe that not enough people make the transition to these lifelong sports and activities.
  
• Things I read and Watch and listen to: I prefer si.com although I wish I read more of ESPN's The Sports Guy as he is certainly an inspiration, NY Times Sports Section, Espn's PTI and Around the Horn, WFAN Radio, ESPN Radio, and I've read tons of sports books like many by John Feinstein (though I don't care for them any longer), The Best American Sports Writing series, etc. I love Outside Magazine, Golf Digest, and the Cloudeveil and Patagonia catalogs.
• Travel. I won't list the places I've been...yet. But surfing and skiing and golfing are great ways to see the world.
  
• Indeed, I am a hoops junky. I would gladly watch Argentina vs Spain in a quarterfinal at the World Basketball Championships. I watch the NIT, and I am passionate about Division III basketball. The great site d3hoops.com and my frequent posts in the NESCAC room also inspired this Blog.
• A sampler of people who have inspired me are: MLK, Hemingway, Springsteen, Dean Smith, Tiger, Obama, Kelly Slater and a whole host of surfers, Dick Vitale, Hubie Brown, Frank Deford, Jim Nantz, Christopher "Mad Dog" Russo, Brandon Tierney, Steven A. Smith, Jim Rome, Don Imus (I'm a fan of his...perhaps a future post?), the whole WFAN cast, Scott Van Pelt, Herm Edwards--"You play to win the game!," and many coaches and players sure to appear in future blog entries.
  

I hope to Blog using lists like "The Top 10 people I want to write a letter to," and "My Top 10 sports tv personalities and why, etc." Alas, knowing that much of this has been done before, the mainstream sports stuff will be on a macro level (I don't care if the Giants are playing Cover-2 or if they're zone blitzing), but there will be lots of exposure to fringe stuff including Golf and the Golf Courses being played by the pros and by me and you (I love golf course design), Buddy Trips--surf, ski, golf, and much more including plenty of rants.

We'll see how this goes.

"I only know how to play two ways, and that's reckless and abandon."
-Magic Johnson