Let's Talk About Sports

Talking about sports is something that occurs in my life as often as blinking. I don't mean I talk about sports as much as I blink, what I mean is that everyday there is an absolute zero chance that I don't talk about sports. Even in the moment of my day I think I'm getting away from the madness, sports comes up. Talking about sports is just like talking about anything that you talk about.

So let's talk about sports. Last weekend I watched an enormous amount of college basketball. We all did and we all will next weekend. The thing about last weekend was that I haven't really watched that much college basketball during the entire season. Probably since last March when we did this same thing. The difference in this year's madness is my bracket being entered amongst a group of peers. This made everything so much more interesting, the constant checking of our rankings thrilled each of us. Even those of us, myself included, near the bottom of the standings.


Twitter also made a difference. Last year I enjoyed each of my 30 or so followers. Yup. I know, this was big time. (so..... follow @chrisbrannick85). Now, with a substantial difference in that number and an equal difference in my involvement on the social media site, following the games became so much more.


I like to talk about sports and irrelevant are my successes in a game between friends. What is more important to me is to talk about sports more. Yes. More. We want more, we want more. My postings on here just aren't enough. Similar to my early days as a user of Twitter or even more fascinating, my early days as a Facebook user, as in I didn't own a computer and cell phones didn't offer such a unique app. The hope is that like my use in any social media app, my presence on this blog will be so much more in the future. Preferably in the near future. It's not like sports ever take a break anyway.

The Good Life

I decided years ago that sports journalism was the way to go. I watch the news every day and I watch sports news like 5,000,000 times more than that. It is just what I love.

So I got into it. Began to learn how the job is actually done. Now, as Sports Editor of my university's newspaper, I rack my brain day in and day out trying to figure out how on earth the very small group of interested sports writers I have working for me are going to cover the enormous amount of sports happening at UCO. My first semester as Sports Editor was a rush. I did a ton of work because there were only two of us. This semester, there are four. This results in me spending more time being an editor than actually going to a basketball game and covering it live.

(Photo by: Aliki Dyer)

Until tonight.

Tonight I covered two games live, tweeting my butt off and writing a story about a game while it was still in progress. I rushed to the coaches office immediately following the game for an interview and published my account of the night's festivities withing 20 minutes of the final buzzer sounding on another Broncho loss. I LOVED IT!
 
I haven't had the opportunity to do this almost the entire spring semester. And do I ever miss it.

I want to send out an order to anybody who stumbles upon this blog and may or may not find themselves in the situation I fell into. Enjoy every second of it because in a very short period of time you will spend all of your time re-writing cover letters and tailoring your resume to different companies desires. You will be preparing for that huge summer internship and your brain will be working double overtime trying to find a way to make it in this world.

Covering sports is what I love and if doing what I did tonight was the way my life turned out, then I would have to say that would be a good life.