Baseball. Basketball. Football. Hockey. In no particular, these 4 sports are what I like to refer to as the North American Four. Soccer doesn't count among them since it hasn't really been among the most popular sports in North America throughout much of its history. Those four major sports can also be put into the so-called Toy Department of Life because they help serve as a type of distraction to help take our minds off certain things going on in our lives that may cause stress or other personal obstacles we may face on a daily basis.
As a sports fans throughout a given year, I like to focus my viewing efforts on the four sports listed above. The one guideline I will use in ranking each sport is I will focus on my own opinions and viewpoints on each sport from the past year or so.
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1. Major League Baseball (MLB)-America's Pasttime will most certainly be at the top of this list no matter what season it is. The fact that there's a game being played everyday of the week during the regular season is a definite plus. I don't care if some fans out there view the sport as boring and slow at times. At least teams not named the Boston Red Sox or New York York Yankees have joined in on the championship train in recent years.
2. National Football League (NFL)-The one sport that plays its regular season games on one of three (sometimes four, when Saturday games are added later in the season), days in a week. The Sunday slate of games (Sunday Night Football included), to go along with Monday Night Football and Thursday Night Football make it pretty easy to remember when a gridiron game is taking place in order to satisfy your weekly football fix. What also beneficial for NFL fans watching on television is that the majority of each week's games can be found on one of the big three networks in CBS, FOX and NBC. For those who have access to ESPN, the NFL Network and NFL RedZone, all your viewing bases are covered-so you should have no excuses for not keeping up with this gladiator sport if you consider yourself a die-hard fan of the yardage game.
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3. National Hockey League (NHL)-The excitement of the Stanley Cup Playoffs is enough to put the game invented by America's neighbors to the North in the #3 spot on this list. The emergence of the Kings and Ducks as perennial doesn't hurt either. I also like giving my Grandmother a hard time whenever I watch because she has trouble following the puck from time to time.
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4. National Basketball Association (NBA)-If the Lakers of recent vintage would come out of their Dumpster Fire phase of the past few seasons, the squeaky sounds of sneakers running across hardwood floors would be moved into the third spot. Until that happens, Adam Silver and company will have to wait a little longer for my full and undivided attention.
Tim Musick
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