Comments on: Turning The Page On The Sports Calendar

By: Savage Henry

Savage Henry — Tue, 05 Feb 2013 18:47:08 +0000

Especially the team from The Netherlands!

By: Ron Ford

Ron Ford — Mon, 04 Feb 2013 19:02:47 +0000

Up nort here, when we are not watching endless reruns of the Packers beating the Bears, we have world championship snowmobile racing in January (Eagle River), the U.S. Pond Hockey Championships also in January (Lake Nokomis), and my personal favorite, the annual Drummond (Wisconsin) Bar Stool Races behind the Black Bear Inn on February 16. (www.drummondwi.com)
Bar stools on skis, what’s not to like?! The event now attracts 3-4000 people, apparently only slightly less than the number of IndyCar fans watching on cable.

As someone else noted above, there is also a lot to recommend with Women’s Beach Volleyball.

By: Steve K

Steve K — Mon, 04 Feb 2013 19:01:36 +0000

LOI day is wednesday. HUGE day for college football fans. Will Von Bell choose your Vols, my Buckeyes, or Nickey Satan (thank you Coach Franklin)? Then Spring ball and the draft…a few months later fall practice starts. Football season never ends.

By: JohnMc

JohnMc — Mon, 04 Feb 2013 16:39:06 +0000

I am an avid Chicago Bears fan and I follow major league baseball and college football. Ever since this past year’s Summer Olympic I have become a fan of Women’s Beach Volleyball, too.

By: Bob F.

Bob F. — Mon, 04 Feb 2013 15:26:54 +0000

Baseball and Indycar have always been my favorite sports. Pro football used to be as well, but I’ve become pretty frustrated with all the rule changes. Its not the same game it was 20 years ago. That is why baseball is the pure game. Its hard to mess up (though mangament and the union have tried).

Pro football is at its peak right now. There are forces that want to bring the league down. To celebrate the superbowl, my daughter and her class was assigned at school to read a book or essay called “Near death on the football field”. I think you can read between the lines.

Indy car is kind of going down this path with all the rule changes and the trashing of tradition, especially at Indy. Don’t think this is not hurting them. The sad thing is, these people think these changes are helping. Kind of scary.

By: Savage Henry

Savage Henry — Mon, 04 Feb 2013 14:57:03 +0000

I just realized that the couldn’t put a race on the same day as the Super Bowl because nobody would show up. The 1st race could have been yesterday.

By: billytheskink

billytheskink — Mon, 04 Feb 2013 14:51:32 +0000

The great thing about sports is that racing and baseball season runs into football season, which runs into basketball season, which runs into racing and baseball season, which runs into…

The bad thing about sports is that I have a very difficult decision to make on October 5. Indycars or the alma mater.

By: Savage Henry

Savage Henry — Mon, 04 Feb 2013 14:51:10 +0000

We’ve been through this before, so I’m sorry to beat a dead horse, but there is exactly nothing interesting in sports on TV between now and March Madness. Even the Daytona 500 is a month away. Indycar should be running races in this dead period. I spent 12 hours last weekend watching the Daytona 24. I don’t care about Grand Am and this race isn’t really that interesting (that track is too short of an enduro as far as I’m concerned). I watched because it was racing and there was nothing else on.

Indycar could build an audience of casual fans by running a couple races in February. Why not races already on the schedule like Brazil or St. Pete where weather won’t be an issue? The Indycar opener shoud have been a 1:00 start yesterday. Most guys were on the sofa flipping around waiting for the Super Bowl to start. Put another race in 2 weeks an that’s 2 races before the taxi cab racing even starts.