basketball

Basketball used to be my favorite sport to play. Up until I graduated high school, I played basketball all the time. I spent summers going to camps and shooting on the concrete court at the house. In the winter I went to practice and was a good person to have on the team. I didn't play much in any games, but I liked playing cause it was fun and kept me from doing some of the farm work. I even played a bunch when I lived in the dorms at OSU. The JON was real close to my dorm, and we would go play for about an hour or so almost every day. The real issue I have with playing basketball now is my eyesight. I have real weak frames and have to wear contacts to really play. When I have in my contacts, I can see okay out of them, but my vision is a bit crossed and I don't really see well enough to shoot. That is what I like about running, I don't have to see real well or even put in contacts to run on my indoor treadmill.

As a sport, basketball may be my favorite to watch. I grew up watching basketball and can really get into a game. Football is okay, but basketball is much more fun to watch for me. I didn't follow any pro teams growing up. The closest team was the pacers, but now I follow the cleveland cavaliers. I started following them when I meet vegasbob who is from cleveland in the dorms. I have gone to five or six games since then. It is great that the have the king now, but some of my favorite players were on the team before lebron got drafted. The last game I tried to go to, I didn't buy tickets ahead of time and ended up going on a bar crawl in cleveland. It was still fun, but cleveland is cold at the end of december so I had to really bundle up.

In high school I used to root for the UC bearcats all the time. Huggins usually had a good team, and I didn't really like the kentucky wildcats. By the time I got started at OSU, I became a fan of their team and have followed them since. They never really had any great teams while I was there. Oden and his crew played the season when I was teaching. I do like Thad as a coach, and was a bit disappointed when UC canned Huggins.

I am going to sign up for a fantasy basketball team this year. I like having a team, but really don't pore over stats very much. I just set my roster for about a week or two ahead of time so that I have a full slate of players every night. I don't think any team I have ever put together has finished in the top 5, and that is okay with me.

On another note, I have crossed the 550 calorie mark on my treadmill routine. I finally got my wii remote to point and display a hand at the screen, but agreed to a system update that should get me 500 free points for the virtual console. I really just wanted to check my weight on the wii board, but have been updating for a half hour now and only about halfway through the progress bar. Sometimes having satellite internet blows.

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