Sports Addict - B.H. Hub

  Sports Addict                          B.H. Hub July 29, 2024    Article 2    You know you’re a Sports Addict when you can recall the team name for Texas Christian University as the “Horned Frogs!” How Being Hooked Became an Addiction My first sports viewing experience as an eight year-old got me hooked, but watching all of my local sports hero’s play at Victoria sports venues made me a Sports Addict. In the mid 60’s, I lobbied my father to take me to whatever sporting events were going on in this south-island city: -Victoria Senior Amateur Baseball League -James Bay and Crimson Tide Rugby -Stuffy McInnis Softball League at Haywood Park -Victoria Chinooks basketball – my old buddy Ken Jackson played Chinooks basketball -Victoria O’Keefe’s Soccer – the club played in the Pacific Coast League with home games at Royal Athletic Park, until the stands burned down in the mid 60’s, so ...

Sports Addict                     B.H. Hub   I’m an addict!! I am not addicted to street drugs such as opioids nor legal drugs such as marijuana edibles. I am not addicted to blanco tequila or singe malt scotch (although I do attend the Victoria Whiskey Festival every January). And I am not addicted to online gambling – although Wayne Gretzky tells me to bet online at “Bet MGM!” I am an old “Sports Addict” to be exact. I follow hockey, football, basketball, baseball, golf, soccer, tennis, rugby and most any other activity where athleticism is involved and where winners and losers are determined. (I don’t watch NASCAR or 10 Pin Bowling, those are not sports; like lawn darts and Texas Hold ‘Em, they’re just activities)! I know that I am a sport addict when I can name at least a dozen players who played on the 67 Toronto Maple Leafs Stanley Cup Championship Team (they haven’t won since), but I have trouble remembering the names of ...