losing and still having fun?

I don't know if I could play a sport and never win. We were having a little conversation on our end of the table and Demos says "Matt no one even knows what Rugby is" and Matt replied " I would rather play a sport that no one knows and win, than play a sport that everyone knows and watches but suck" and sadly I almost agree with Matt.
We didn't have the best season this year and the team became catty and snippy. It just wasn't fun and our season only lasted for 4 months, so I can't imagine going through years and years in a "slump" it takes the fun out of the game. Everyone likes to win

what is a sport and whats not

I personally would think it would be cool to analyze a sport that we've never played before to see how we see a sport from an "outsiders" point of view. I know that when we talk in class and people are talking about baseball and track and even rugby I can't relate or sometimes even feel the same way they do about a topic because I've never experienced some of the things they talk about. I think it's really hard to discuss how one "game" is more of a sport than another if it's never been tried. Something may seem easy but in reality it's REALLY not.
i.e. We're in our off season right now and all we do is condition and lift. We have this running "punishment" where you have to snake through the stair separating the bleachers there are 8 sets of stairs going up and all you have to do is run up one come down the next and so on then sprint to where you started and go again. It doesn't sound like it's that bad and we only do 4-6 but when you actually do them it is incredibly hard.

Hero

My hero is Oganna Nnanami. She is a volleyball player that played for Stanford for four years and is one of the best players that ever came through they're program. She's an amazing force on the court but she also makes you want to play your hardest for her. I believe that if you have a hero that you can see and you can talk to that it will make you work so much harder to make sure that you do not dissapoint them. Even though they may never be dissapointed in anything you do it's hard not to feel like you let them down. She really made me want to excel in volleyball and be as good as I could be to get the recognition that she has and had. That is what a hero means to me

Sports and Art

I think that there are people that would say sports and art are very similar. For many people they both can evoke strong emotion and thought. But I also think that it is a completely subjective. If you like art AND sport than it may be a lot easier for you to see the connections between the two more readily than someone that likes one or the other. I have seen art and thought "wow that's beautiful" and I have also seen plays made in sports and thought the same thing but I think that the two beauties are different and are comparing beauty rather than the fact that a sport is art or not.

We were kings

I thought that Ali was a great fighter. He had what it took to instill fear into his opponents. He would never show it but he was terrified to fight half the men he was put in the ring with. But by sheer egotisitical "slashing" as we've learned is the Austrailian term he was able to get into the heads of some of the greatest boxers in the nation.