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Favorite sports to cover
June 29, 2008While high school sports are dormant, it still has been a pretty busy last couple of weeks for me.
First, I withstood a two-hour storm delay in Childress to cover the Greenbelt Bowl (the really bad weather hit that town the next night).
Then I covered the rodeo last weekend. After that, I was at the Texas-Oklahoma Junior Golf Tournament.
I got to thinking, and I figured a blog about the sports I most prefer to cover was in store. So here is the order (Disclaimers: even the last couple of sports on this list I do not mind covering -- but some sports had to come in last):
1) Football -- Covering Texas high school football on a Friday night, with a tight writing deadline breathing down your neck and a thrilling game in front of your eyes. That is hard to top.
2) Hockey -- No coincidence that the other sport I mainly cover beside football is the Wildcats. Before hockey came here, I was well-informed about the sport by keeping up with my hometown Dallas Stars.
3) Baseball -- Always enjoy when playoff baseball season comes around, and the mind games that are best-of-three series.
4) Golf -- Nothing better than following people around a beautiful course. And at the state golf tournament and T-O (the extent of my golf coverage), these people are good. They aren't just hacking it around.
5) Softball -- Just like baseball, except half as long.
6) Track -- I must say I disliked covering this sport (which is one of my spring beats) when I started out working here. And honestly, I personally have never been into the whole running, jumping thing.
But spending a weekend at the state track meet is one of my favorite activities. When nightfall comes, that place is electrifying.
7) Rodeo -- This sport is a writer's dream. Cowboys give very colorful, vivid quotes and there are some really great stories out there waiting to be told.
7) Basketball -- Always played in pickup games, but basketball was one sport I never played on a real team growing up. I like basketball, but have never been one of those die-hard hoops proponents.
8) Tennis -- Only because I have never really covered it, except one Summer Slam a long, long time ago.
9) Volleyball -- Probably the one sport I have never covered, and the one sport I would feel a little bit unfamiliar with all the rules if I did cover.
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