Personal Note: Field Observation #4

One reason I like sports is that the news it generates usually does not raise my blood pressure. I'm more inclined to sigh over the futility of my hometown teams than shout. I gravitate to sports channels when I'm tired, ill or fed up with the world for some soothing coverage of the human species at play. So why, o my fellow humans, do you choose the morning I had to get up at 4:30 to work out at the gym, to poison 130-year-old trees on the campus of a rival school and refuse to compete against another athlete because of her gender? Now I'm all depressed and angry ...

I hope the tree poisoner is visited by the ghosts of J.R.R. Tolkien, Theodore Roosevelt and Bear Bryant nightly until he recognizes the error of his ways! Argh!