In America, we have three major sports - baseball, football and basketball. They get the most coverage. Then there's things like golf which mop up most of what is left. But track and field? We are way at the bottom of the totem pole.
Portland doesn't read like a basketball town, unless you remember what the NBA was like before it exploded into the mainstream in the Eighties: back when cities like Seattle, Baltimore, and Philadelphia moved the needle.
Back in East St. Louis, tennis wasn't the real thing. If you weren't playing baseball, basketball, football, you were kind of on the outside.
Wrestling isn't looked upon like the other sports of football, baseball, basketball and hockey.
It's really important for cycling and for women to be on a sporting stage which is in the mainstream and across the board, not just my own sport.
Snooker's never going to be that. It's never going to be a worldwide game like tennis and golf. It's never going to happen.
You're really in a bubble if you're not watching the league.
We want to take boxing to the level of cricket.
Professional gaming competitions are creating celebrities who are recognized and revered as athletes were in prior generations. Spectator gaming is becoming as popular as mainstream sports.
I think we have our sports within our own culture that are huge with baseball, football, basketball, and hockey. Those are the sports in America that we grow up with and soccer isn't really there yet.
