Integrity in Professional Sports

[NCASAUmp]

I actually wrote a rant along the same lines on my website.

http://sabian.whispers.org/rants/pro_sports.html

I still like pro football, but almost all other "professional" sports are out for me, including baseball. Pro sports have deviated from "the heart of the game."

[NYBLUE]

Hmmmm, seems as if hockey is the only "pure" sport left among the big 4.

[Chess Ref]

Well I gave up on the NBA awhile ago. Two things seem to have influenced my perception. One being the "Jordan rules" and the other was,believe it or not, the lack of traveling calls. I also hated that we sent pros to the Olympics. There was something special about college kids against the world. Now it's just silly,rich,whiney, people. I couldn't tell you how many golds we have won in the last 3 Olympics.
NFL football is just so sanitized it bores me. I will admit to watching the 4th quarter of the Super Bowl this year but that was probably my longest extended watching of the NFL in awhile. When my next door neighbor,sweet lil old lady in her 70's, is trying to break down defenses for me it has finally been Starbucked to death for me.
Not much of a hockey fan so no opinion on that.

MLB still interests me. The steroids doesn't bother me that much. What really grates me is $5 hotdogs as the backup F4 is making 6 million a year. SO I try and ignore that and just go with the flow. Satellite radio has helped in that you get the home town announcers with their home town ads and kinda brings me to that place when I was kid...

I have been getting into small time college sports. Been a fan of the WAC and Mountain West football for awile. I go to Reno 3x a year or so and watch the Wolfack-Go REBELS- and also watch some decent 1AA ball a couple of times a year. Just enjoy smaller schools-not quite the same level of corruption as the bigger schools. Schools like UNR will actually kick players off the team for being at parties, not drinking and fighting but just being there. I can't remember the last time I sat down on a Saturday and watched a Big 10 or SEC game from start to finish but thats really geography cause I will watch a PAC 10 game....

Also every Friday night I find a local HS game and go and hang out. SO I get my football fix that way also.