Very nice! I didn't know where you were going with this until the first half was over. Clever organization with the countdown, too. I am not a sports lover -- I almost didn't read the rest of your essay because reading about sports doesn't interest me much. But now I'm impressed by the way you used basketball to express some pretty deep things, including bell hooks' thoughts about love. Yes, I have read her book - in fact, I have two copies.
I’m not a sportsball person at all, but basketball is really the only ball sport I’ve ever played, on our church’s god-awful (pun intended) team in the Greek Orthodox Youth of America “league.” (Basically we traveled up and down the mid-Atlantic to play terrible games by day and have supervised Greek + American dance parties at night.)
And I loved this. I loved the part where the sports-crying lets you get out all the other-crying. (I guess this is how boys/men are all the time.) And…people know people so differently! And…intimacy in more shapes! Finally, I LOVE that your team was named the Snapping Turtles. Would love even more if there are actually snapping turtles on Mt. Tabor??? Somewhere, somehow???
Side note: I had no idea the college women’s games were getting so much fanfare. I was only vaguely aware that the Moda Center messed up the 3-point line for the WNBA championships, lol/not lol. I do wonder, per your comment about players being well-marketed, if this change is due to the change in the Name, Image, Likeness rule. (And, probably/despondently as a result, increased exposure to male eyes and dollars.) Or maybe The Sports Bra is singlehandedly changing the national landscape. :)
Very nice! I didn't know where you were going with this until the first half was over. Clever organization with the countdown, too. I am not a sports lover -- I almost didn't read the rest of your essay because reading about sports doesn't interest me much. But now I'm impressed by the way you used basketball to express some pretty deep things, including bell hooks' thoughts about love. Yes, I have read her book - in fact, I have two copies.
I’m not a sportsball person at all, but basketball is really the only ball sport I’ve ever played, on our church’s god-awful (pun intended) team in the Greek Orthodox Youth of America “league.” (Basically we traveled up and down the mid-Atlantic to play terrible games by day and have supervised Greek + American dance parties at night.)
And I loved this. I loved the part where the sports-crying lets you get out all the other-crying. (I guess this is how boys/men are all the time.) And…people know people so differently! And…intimacy in more shapes! Finally, I LOVE that your team was named the Snapping Turtles. Would love even more if there are actually snapping turtles on Mt. Tabor??? Somewhere, somehow???
Side note: I had no idea the college women’s games were getting so much fanfare. I was only vaguely aware that the Moda Center messed up the 3-point line for the WNBA championships, lol/not lol. I do wonder, per your comment about players being well-marketed, if this change is due to the change in the Name, Image, Likeness rule. (And, probably/despondently as a result, increased exposure to male eyes and dollars.) Or maybe The Sports Bra is singlehandedly changing the national landscape. :)