Sports
Wrestling and it’s beauty and emotion are growing on me. The uniforms, not so much.
It was “Old People” night in the student section. And they tebowed every time a foul shot was taken. #goodjobohio
Dear 14, I thought you called time-outs for water break, not nose itching. “There ain’t no nose picking in basketball!” said in a tom hank’s league of their own voice.
Ashland High School fans are my favorite. Namely Mr. Blue Jeans Blue Eye who is walking the dog (yes, I know the names of yo-yo tricks) and jumping with his friend on his back while the other team takes foul shots. The cop (yes there are cops at every sporting event at every high school [...]
Santa spends his off-seasons, minus a few pounds, yelling “push it” at his favorite girls basketball team.
The ever distracting and intimidating student section of High School basketball.
Sometimes I think some of appear to be more evolved than others. Previously thought to be extinct here is the “primate high school basketball coach”, direct descendent of the………. primate?
Its all in the face. The tongue sticking out in amusement. The eyes wide open in desperation.
What this girls thinking in her head “If my foot doesn’t touch the ground the balls not out. So I’ll just fly.” It worked.
I like wrestling. Maybe because, well the lightweights, it reminds me of a dance. A well-coordinated intense dance that leaves you with a bloody nose. The heavyweights, I don’t like those guys so much. Thats just pushing and shoving giant teddy bears.
In Ohio I have encountered some impressively interesting characters. Like this guy above who looks like a serial killer but is actually a high school wrestling referee who runs a tattoo parlor full time. Or the next guy, a wrestling coach, who looks like the only thing he wrestled was pigs as he grunted in [...]
Sometimes the only thing bigger than the action in High School sports is the emotion. Emotions of players, coaches, fans.
Sometimes they win.