Hi everyone, Im Ryan and this is my sports blog.
Sports have had a large impact on my life from the early ages, from the age of six where I picked up and played soccer for the west pennant hills lions for four years, while soccer was not my favourite sport, I still enjoyed the competitive aspect of it, as profound as that may sound. After playing soccer for a number of years I was introduced to baseball as a lot of my friends from soccer had moved across, or were playing both sports, little did i know that this move would be one that would change my life in my early teens. My local club team stayed consistent throughout the years, with a number of us being selected into representative teams as soon as we reached the under 12’s bracket, For the next four years I would continue playing club baseball for the Greenway Giants and representative baseball for the Ryde Hawks.
At the age of 16 I was selected to play for one of the two teams from Australia to compete in the World Boys Championship in Japan, this was probably one of the best experiences of my life, even though the intensity of playing 3 levels of baseball caused me to burn out and need a break, it was a great experience nonetheless. Below is a picture of my team in Japan against one of the two Chinese Taipei teams.
Well that is enough history of my sporting experiences lets move on to what my blog entries will involve, it will provide up to date facts and important news, scores and match rundowns to do with major sports within Australia that I am interested in, mainly including the NRL as its my favourite spectating sport, with small sections on the Super 14 rugby union and the AFL.
I would like to pose a question to you readers out there, what makes a certain sport more popular than another, what makes a sport good? Nicholas Christenfield from the Department of Psychology from the University of California says that to satisfy the fans of the particular sport, it must contain an appropriate, spread out level of grace, violence, strength, brilliance and excitement, what is your opinion?
