Sunday, April 6, 2008

First Time and the Last Time


Whoa. I just pulled myself back from the ledge after watching the second half of the NCAA Women's Final Four Semifinal between Tennessee and LSU. For those of you getting ready to X out of this page, I plan to never speak of Women's basketball again here. It was probably the worst half of basketball that I have ever witnessed in my life. And I come from a high school where our boy's team consistently finishes the year with a stellar 4-16 record(I didn't really help the cause either). Aside from the unattractive players and fans at the game, the foul shooting didn't help ease my pain. At one point Tennessee was 2-7 and LSU was 5-17 from the line, Shaq would laugh at these stats. Living in Connecticut, I am surrounded by people who believe that women's basketball is something to behold, and sadly, this includes my father. Mostly older men who have lost their way with mainstream sports, a majority divorced living on their own, have gravitated to women's basketball for some crazy reason. And excluding maybe Candace Parker or another former tennessee player whose name I can't remember, they can't be watching for the women. Stupid fouls, ugly shots, and for god sakes there's no 10 second backcourt count? Are you kidding me? I'm not a hockey fan, but ESPN, please bring back the NHL and dump this garbage....

Welcome

Welcome to whoever may be reading this, as this is my first entry of hopefully more to come. My goal here on 'Graphic In Nature' is to comment on current sports topics and how they are covered in the Sports Media world. I hope that this can become a site to put the sports media world on notice and maybe even help them with some suggestions. Hope you all enjoy...