On the TunneySide of Sports December 27, 2021 #880 Up next… Keep Hope Alive!
After further review… The TunneySide is hoping your holidays were joyful and pleasant. Within our sports world, it was not so pleasant due to the various diseases that plagued us throughout 2021. Let us turn our attention to a more thoughtful and positive 2022.
It’s always been my thinking to K.H.A., meaning Keep Hope Alive! I remember hearing about a doctor who, after thoroughly examining his patient and seeing/knowing there was not much treatment left that would keep his patient alive, said: “I can’t give you much hope.” I thought to myself: “Hmm, doctor, that’s maybe all you can give him!”
This brings me to 2022. With all we (in the USA) have endured throughout 2021, what can we hope for in 2022? Well, certainly, besides hope we can place our trust in others that are, perhaps, more knowledgeable than we then do our best to stay healthy. Since this column/blog is about sports, let’s examine how difficult it was to carry on in our sports world in 2021.
Many professional games in all sports – NFL, NBA, NHL, MLB – and so on had players infected with COVID-19. How do you compete with only a partial roster? Last week in the NFL, seven rookie quarterbacks were starting for their teams with some of them in battles for a playoff berth. As I write this the NBA is quarantining players and coaches.
The NHL has canceled the US hockey team from the 2022 Winter Olympic Games scheduled to begin the first week in February 2022. I wonder how many other Winter Olympians will be forced to withdraw due to the pandemic of COVID-19 or omicron variant or even another virus? Or even, perhaps, other countries will be forced to withdraw their teams due to infections?
Then, too what about our student-athletes at the college level or on down to the Little League level? Will some just give up hope that it’s just not worth it to try again next year? I’ve heard some coaches worried that they may not have enough players trying out for their teams. Our high schools have tried to carry on during this pandemic. What is their level of hope that 2022 will be better?
Will you keep hope alive for those who still have the desire to compete?
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