The trouble with baseball is that it is not played the year round.
Christmas Day is a big day for NBA basketball.
The calendar and the clock are all set by football season and the offseason.
In December, every league has a break, but in England, it is not like this.
In a year without the World Cup, the national leagues and the Champions League have much more weight.
I was in Atlanta for nine years and we never got to play on Christmas Day.
Who am I, of course, to judge them, but the Premier League must urgently think about a rest period in a European Championship or World Cup year.
At the end of the day, it is a very long year. The tennis season is pretty much ten months of the year.
February is always a bad month for TV sports. Football is gone, basketball is plodding along in the annual midseason doldrums, and baseball is not even mentioned.
I think a global season, moving it a bit towards summer, can only be a good thing from a playing and commercial point of view, but it would take a massive shift, and I do not know if it would happen in my career.
There should be more of an off-season in the game. I think you need to have less tournaments, more of a break at the end of the year so guys can recover.
Football has an off-season. Basketball has an off-season. TV has an off-season. Everything has an off-season except wrestling.
It's hard for anyone in the 24-hour news cycles that we all live in now to follow something that the first round is played in March and the final finishes in December. I understand the challenges there.
The season starts too early and finishes too late and there are too many games in between.
The International Cricket Calender shouldn't be so packed with action that it drives spectators away. Also there should be enough space between cricket events to help players recharge their batteries - not just physically but mentally too.
The most time players get off is during the international breaks.
Myself, Marion Jones and Michael Johnson all got married on the same day because it was the only point on the athletics' schedule we could fit in. October 3, 1998.
For the drivers, a weekend off would be nice, but for the fans, it would not be a very good deal.
I love the Olympics. I love the idea of something happening every four years. I've always had love for Bulgaria, and I've always been a Bulgarian. That's also really part of why I want to play it. I know it's tough for the calendar, but at the same time, it's the Olympics.
I'm on the cover of the lingerie football swimsuit calendar this year.
