Sports

I like sports. I'm not one of those guys that watches football all weekend, but I like sports.

Hockey is the only sport I follow even sorta well. My wife and I had season tickets to the Buffalo Sabres in the eighties. She used to be a big hockey fan, but the after the strikes by the players (the first one) that was it for her.

We also watch tennis, especially the US Open and Wimbledon. Great stuff.

And it got us to talking. One of the cool things about tennis is that two people (or four) are facing each other skill to skill. mano y mano. Rare thing when you think about it. We tried to think of another individual sport that had that dynamic. Boxing, Fencing and wrestling?, not exactly 'big' sports.

You could say golf, but really your beating a score, not a person - same with bowling. Races are all about time - skiiing, that oval skating. So they are races, not exactly sport.

Anything with judges is a contest. (not a sport) Snowboarding, ice skating, surfing - again the judges wield too much influence to make it a sport. How many times have you watched figure skating where the team that should win doesn't because 'they are paying their dues'. That's bullshit - it they skated better that day - they should win!

So can any of you think of a sport that has that tennis dynamic?

m.