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April 10, 2005
basketball blues
at my gym (Club One in downtown Oakland), there's a row of ellipticals on the third floor looking down over the basketball court. i watched a game of 2-on-2 today while warming up for my weightlifting session. three of the players were fairly fit and sporty-looking guys, but the other was a tall woman who drove to the hoop just about every time she got her hands on the ball. she made the guys look like absolute chumps. i'm betting she played college ball.
this woman's athleticism was head-spinningly attractive, and it got me wondering why i don't know more people who play sports or did when they were younger. i can't think of any close friends off the top of my head who have any game at all. i was a three-sport athlete in high school (football, track and [church league] basketball), and i played DI-AA college football. i don't believe i know any other former athletes. hell, i have been trying for ten years to get a pickup basketball game together. nothing. denied. my friends are all pasty geeks who commiserate on chat with each other about the jocks they hated in high school. to most of them, exercise is dancing all night at an oontz club, or maybe a round of golf. yawn.
here, i'll try again. my comments don't work at the moment cos of asshole blog spammers, so Bay Area pals - email me if you want to shoot hoops some time eh! also email me if you are a single female athlete!
ps: golfers excepted from above. don't email me. i loathe golf.
Posted by bcm at April 10, 2005 03:16 PM
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