IT'S MY FIRST TIME!

Why am I doing this? I am not the greatest writer in the world that's for sure. I never did well in my college English courses, and never even tried out for the school newspaper. I actually did write for my high school newspaper, but that was a joke. Growing up I was never really into reading and I never kept a journal of my thoughts and experiences. One thing I did do was read the New York Times sports section every day. It started back in kindergarten when I would only look at the box scores and pictures to see if my favorite teams had won or lost. This developed into reading some of the articles and columns, and further to knowing who my favorite columnists were and making sure to search right away if they had a column in that days issue.

As far back as I could remember my father always urged my sisters and I to read the newspaper every day. My oldest sister B was an obsessive reader, but made sure to resist my fathers newspaper demands. My other sister J was a master at ignoring things my father would tell her, and reading the newspaper was number one on her list. As for me, I would always make sure he knew that I was following his advise on how to improve my vocabulary and become a great writer. Little did he know that all I was interested in was reading about sports. Once I hit high school though he was on to my scheme. He would treat my sports section viewings with little acknowledgment.

It took me a long time to change my ways. I had other priorities in high school than reading the current events of the world. College was more of the same. At some points it didn't feel like there was anything else in the world going on other than that on my Union College campus. It wasn't until I graduated and felt a need be in tune with current events. I began to feel an obligation to myself to be able to carry on conversations on an array of subjects. I began to try and have an informed opinion on topics ranging from politics, to entertainment, to alternate energy sources, to the latest NYC happenings. Even with this now being the case, one thing has stayed constant. I find it almost impossible to resist turning directly to the sports section every time I open the paper.

There are two prominent blog/blog style websites I read quite often. The first is Bill Simmons (Sports Guy) on ESPN.com. While he is an insiration, I will not make this blog a rip-off of him. I am my own man and I will do things my own way. The other is my sister B's blog*. Her blog is such a totally different form. I will be much less personal and emotional, with also much worse writing. In any event I doubt I would have the desire to start something like this if it wasn't for those two.

I hope this blog keeps people interested and is a lot of fun. I hope you enjoy it and I will do my best to be creative and not suck!

*http://brianabrianabrianabriana.blogspot.com.....check it out!!