I have a tendency to drink a lot at sporting events. By the end of the game I'm in a delerious state.
| The first-year from nearby Akron averages 14.7 points and 8.5 rebounds a game. Against Wilberforce Johnson scored 36 points and grabbed 16 boards to keep Oberlin in third place. During Wednesday's disappointing 55-50 loss to Allegheny, she continued to impress by scoring 10 points, grabbing six rebounds and one steal. She has been invaluable to her fellow Yeowomen during their spectacular regular season. |
Raegan Johnson (photo courtesy of S.I.D) |
Oberlin hosts Case Western Reserve, Heidelberg, Muskingum, John Carroll and Otterbein today. It is one of two home track meets of the season.
Today
Field Events, 6 p.m.
Running Events, 7:45 p.m.
This week, the Review went in the lockerroom with their own sports editors. What are they thinking about?
So, as sports dorks, what is the earliest game from which you can recall vivid details?
Glenn: T-Ball. I remember playing T-ball. You couldn't hit pop-ups, but I used to beat the shit out of the ball. I was on the Pizza Machine Team. And five years old at the time.
Ross: Sometime in July 1987, Fenway Park. Red Sox versus Texas Rangers. Dwight Evans hit a grand slam home run in the ninth to win the game. Bruce Hurst was pitching.
Glenn: Brilliant.
Jacob: Summer of 1986, the bleachers of Memorial Stadium. I watched Storm Davis pitch a game for the O's. I can't remember who they were playing. I remember a lot of drunken fans, though.
When you watch sports, either live or on TV, do you concentrate?
Glenn: Yeah. Of course. Football especially.
Ross: Live football is tough to follow. Otherwise, I concentrate quite a bit, but I have a tendency to drink a lot at sporting events. By the end of the game I'm in a delirious state.
Jacob: Oh, definitely. Especially with football. Mute the TV and turn on the radio for RedSkins play by plays.
Do you like listening to sports on the radio?
Glenn: If I have to. I mean ... in the car.
Ross: I enjoy listening to hockey on the radio and I also listen to sports commentary on WFAN.
Jacob: Depends on who the commentators are. I was heartbroken when Peter Angelos forced out Jon Miller from Orioles home radio.
What is your favorite sports magazine or newspaper and why?
Glenn: Ross is so witty. Every answer I give is just lame. But I am fond of the columnists for the San Franisco Chronicle.
Ross: Boston Globe and Hustler. Both have excellent columnists.
Jacob: Definitely the Washington Post sports section. Unparalleled.
Do you like Chris Berman?
Glenn: No, but I hope Bill Walton contracts cancer.
Ross: No, but I hope Bob Barker contracts cancer.
Jacob: No. But I do hope Tim McCarver contracts cancer. He ruined the '91 World Series for me.
Do you like John Madden?
Glenn: Ask Ross first.
Ross: I appreciate anyone who sits up in a booth and gets drunk watching football games.
Glenn: Ask Jake. I gotta think of something good.
Jacob: No. Especially because he's keeping Pat Summerall in the booth and you can tell every minute that he's in pain that he's not covering golf for CBS.
Glenn: I like it when he uses the coach's clicker.
What's the deal with sports anyway?
Glenn: Jake?
Ross: It helps me pass the time between episodes of Teletubbies.
Glenn: I like sports because they are really fun.
Jake: I just like sports.
Are sentimental accounts of 19th century baseball a la George Will and Ken Burns really as important as PBS makes them out to be?
Glenn: Brilliant, brilliant, brilliant. My friends and I rented all the tapes and watched them over the summer.
Ross: I'm not familiar with the works of George Will, but I really liked Good Will Hunting.
Jacob: No. But I love the Civil War.
Care to tell me how many hours per week you spend following and thinking about sports?
Glenn: All these questions are making us look bad.
Ross: They're making me look good. Besides the one hour I spend thinking about sports for the Review, I probably take in 64 hours per week.
Glenn: How many hours are there in a week?
Jacob: Probably too many.
Do Oberlin sports interest you? Why not, Ross?
Ross: I didn't say that. I am distressed with the state of Oberlin sports. I blame not the players, but the administration. I take as my cause the Oberlin College football team which has been consistently mishandled by the powers that be.
Jacob: Most certainly.
- Men's basketball
- Wednesday at Case Western Reserve, 7:30 p.m.
- Women's basketball
- Saturday at Spelman, 2:00 p.m.
- Wednesday at Case Western Reserve, 7:30 p.m.
- Men's and women's swimming and diving
- Friday and Saturday, NCAC championships
- (All day)
- Men's and women's indoor track team
- Friday vs. Case Western Reserve, Heidelberg, Muskingum, Otterbein and John Carroll.
- Field events will begin at 6:00 p.m.
Copyright © 1999, The Oberlin Review.
Volume 127, Number 13, February 12, 1999
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