Life without sports includes athletes doing social media trends and making Tik Toks, reminiscing over great sporting memories, and the NFL being the obnoxious attention hogs that they always have been.
Today would mark opening day for baseball but instead the baseball community is hearing about big-named pitchers needing Tommy John surgery. In less than a month the Masters Tournament would’ve been happening and Tiger Woods would be defending his crown, but on April 23rd you get to see the NFL draft.
The NFL is currently one of the only sports that are not fully affected by this pandemic and they are taking full advantage of that. The league already owns three days of the week while they’re in season and now during the offseason, it’s all you hear about.
Moving on, social media has shown how people how work/ play in sports are dealing with things.
Things sports related to watch
Currently on NESN, every night they broadcast a Red Sox postseason game and Bruins playoff games. As of March 26th at roughly 7 p.m. the Red Sox are playing the Tigers in game 2 of the 2013 ALCS. This game alone marks one of, if not the most clutch moment of David Ortiz’s career and the start of Steve Horgan’s legacy.
ESPN 8 the Ocho
I was so sucked into the Ocho that I found myself watching marble racing. Some of the events I watched were dodgeball, juggling dodgeball, death diving, slippery stairs and others that I can’t think of off the top of my head. Moral of the story was that it kept me occupied and distracted from the real world problems for a couple of hours.
My final thing to watch sports related are 30 for 30’s. You don’t necessarily have to be a die hard sports fan to enjoy these. The 30 for 30 series consists of nearly 100 documentaries from highlighting scandals to the personal side of player profiles. The most recent one I watched was Rodman: For Better or Worse. This documentary tells the story of Dennis Rodman’s life from the start to where he is currently. I was a little young to catch all of the Rodman antics in the 90’s and it really opened my eyes to how he broke the social normalities of what athletes are suppose to be. I’m not saying he’s a hero by any means, he just rattled the cage of the perception of athletic personalities. A must watch if you don’t know about him, and even if you do know about him, it’s a great reminder.
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