One thing that has irritated me in the sport of boxing since I stopped is I'm really surprised that no one has come along to excite me like me.
All-Star is something that's exciting for the fans: it's a way for the fans to see their favourite players all play at the same time.
If the jump is perfect, you come out, and you feel like you took a three-pointer in basketball or doing the perfect thing in whatever your sport is. You just get that adrenaline rush, a sense of satisfaction, like you want to do it again and again.
How can you get tired of playing golf?
It's hard to pass up a pole vault opportunity here in Des Moines. The crowd was so great when I was at the mall and I was pumped up and I thought technically I was on and I figured where else to open up my outdoor season than here.
The joy of surfing is so many things combined, from the physical exertion of it, to the challenge of it, to the mental side of the sport.
Why isn’t it fun to watch a videotape of last night’s football game even when we don’t know who won? Because the fact that the game has already been played precludes the possibility that our cheering will somehow penetrate the television, travel through the cable system, find its way to the stadium, and influence the trajectory of the ball as it hurtles toward the goalposts!
Sport is made to be live. You can't watch something three hours later already knowing the results; it's not the same experience.
There is nothing more exciting in sport when the top two countries in the world are battling for the Ashes.
