No longer a good sport

I still love watching sports in the abstract, but that’s where it stops.One thing my long-time readers (all three or four of them) have noticed about me over the years is that I’ve often made references to being a big fan of major pro and college sports, all the way back to my childhood when I regularly spent weekend afternoons in the living room with my parents watching ballgames. Time moves on and things change. Sadly. As I write, football1 is rearing its head for the 2026 season. The pros are finishing up the pre-season, colleges are getting ready to start up over the upcoming Labor Day weekend, and here in Texas the high schools are already playing — and, be it noted, probably going through their weight in Gatorade as we sweat through a particularly nasty late-summer heat wave, but that’s another story. In any other year up to now, I’d be champing at the proverbial bit to watch as much of that on TV as I could from now through next February’s Super Bowl. Instead, I spent much of…

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