2010 Sports Writing Introduction

I wrote the following entries in January and February of 2010. I spend more time thinking about sports then I should, and occasionally I like to write about them. These are kind of all over the map - I was trying to be a little intuitive and I'm not sure it worked as desired - but I thought I might as well publish them here because they aren't doing me any good just sitting on my computer. Plus, the way sports work, the passage of a year has rendered some of them outdated.