Sporting a smile

I have just got up and it is 7.20am here, which means that in the UK the Premiership has just kicked off. It is strange the way the time difference works, as when I went to the BBC website I saw that Everton had not only already played, but that they had thrashed Liverpool.

Sport is strange here in the US. Back in Blighty I was always used to going to the Sports pages in the paper first, but if I do that here I am done in around 6 seconds flat. The only sports they really care about here are American Football, baseball and basketball. Nothing else. It is currently the US Tennis open and there is nothing in the sports pages about it. The American Football season started on Thursday and there are around 16 pages about it. Plus another 16 pages about baseball. Basketball doesn't start until December time. Another strange thing is how popular college sport is. The local paper here carries all the results of the colleges in the 3 main sports. It would be the equivalent of the Evening Standard carrying all the sports scores of the London Universities. But not only the scores but indepth interviews as well.

I think it has to do with the fact that most of the sportsmen that go to college are their on scholarships and are just passing through to being signed up by the pro teams. As for me the only way I get to hear the scores and news is via the BBC website. Nothing about football (soccer) here anywhere. Oh well at least Everton are top of the league ......for now!