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Sure, I’m interested in the news. I like to know what’s going on around me. I like entertainment, too. Some people even say that I’m obsessed with popular culture. And yes, I do have quite an opinion.
These little tid-bits are all fine and dandy, but that doesn’t change how I feel about being a sports writer.
I am willing to challenge writers from any other section of the CU Independent that my group has the most fun.
It doesn’t seem to matter where we are or what we are doing, someone is always there to make the experience fresh and exciting.
The idea of going to games and interviewing players is fun in and of itself. The fact that I could be talking to the next generation of superstar athletes is amazing. These players are essentially the hometown heroes of Boulder.
When I go to games, I watch them with a deeper knowledge than most of the fans in the stands. I have an idea of what the players and coaches are thinking and what skills they are working to improve.
Beyond being a Buffs fan, I am also a writer. So even with my journalistic integrity, my heart still breaks a bit when I see our teams lose, and knowing the players on a deeper level than just their athletic skill only makes it that much harder to take.
Every athlete I’ve talked to since I’ve been with the CU Independent has been respectful and has shown just how much they love what they do, and that’s what makes this job so much fun. This type of attitude has its method of making its way into my life and writing. When I see how much dedication and passion the players have, I can’t help but feel the same way about watching the games and writing my pieces.
Beyond the interaction I get to have with the players, I love the interaction I have with my fellow sports writers. We are a specific breed of journalist, and while we write about sports, we have so much more to talk about, and in many cases, sing about.
Whether it be hearing my editor singing “Oh Canada,” at a Nuggets game or my peers belting out Lady Gaga’s “Poker Face,” in lower downtown Denver, I have laughed more while being with them than I have in pretty much my whole time in Boulder.
Every meeting we have is a new experience, and I never know what antics will occur. In between story assignments are debates over Chauncey Billups’ commercials, jokes from “The 40 Year Old Virgin” and analogies to television shows from the late nineties.
With this, I wonder if the other sections are having half as much fun. My deduction is a resounding “no.”
So while the other writers are searching for news or asking other students how they liked the latest box-office smash, I’ll take my sports with doses of music and comedy any day.
Contact CU Independent Staff Writer Marlee Horn at Marlee.horn@colorado.edu.
