because I love sports and want to fangirl, of course

I haven’t been posting much because I’ve been so busy actually watching sports. Some things that I’ve watched certainly are worthy of recaps, but I just don’t have time for it. Just take a brief glance of what has happened recently/what is going to happen soon.

This past May/early June

• College tennis, college men’s volleyball, college track and field championships. Pretty much all of the finals were thrilling for even the casual fans. The track and field championships might have been the craziest, but that championship is more likely to be a circus. I’ll have to say the men and women’s college tennis finals may be the best we’ll see in a while.
• French Open. Novak’s streak, Fognini dramatics, first Asian slam winner, Federer still not beating Nadal ever at the French Open
• Diamond League + Lukas Verzbicas. A dramatic come-from-behind victory for Bolt against Powell one week, Gay almost nips Mullings at the line after 3 false starts, Mo Farah being badass in a 10k, Lukas breaking the 2-mile prep record and going sub-4 in the mile, Blanka Vlasic losing the high jump and not clearing 1.94 m. The League is heating up this year because of World Champs, which will be awesome of course.
• Soccer everywhere. Pretty much. Leagues finishing up, UEFA Champions League, more EURO 2012 qualifiers. Barcelona vs Madrid was crazy this year and the stuff that came from all those clashes could be a 100-page post.
• NBA finals. Mavs win. That’s all I know.
• Other sports that I didn’t pay attention to like NHL happened. Horse racing, golf, something else…

Now the action is just heating up. In the next few months we have

• Wimbledon. It starts Monday. Another chance for Novak to capture the #1 ranking. The Williams sisters are back playing in a slam. Then hardcourt stuff until the U.S. Open at the end of August.
• More Diamond League + World Championships at the end of August. The men’s 100 m is probably the best race for casual people, but I expect crazy stuff in pretty much every race. The 110 m hurdles (men) and 100 m hurdles (women) are also going to be crazy, and distance races will become shoving matches or something. I’m sure someone will be spiked at least.
• FIFA Women’s World Cup. Starts in about a week or two. Germany is at home and won the last one, so heavy favorites. Still a great chance to watch some awesome ladies, especially with the rise in the level all around. England and Mexico are definitely teams to keep your eyes out for.
• FIFA youth World Cups for the boys. The U-20 in 2007 might have been one of my favorite tournaments I ever watched (CBC coverage was awesome). Not sure how great the coverage will be in the U.S., though, with the U.S. boys not qualifying this time around.
• Copa America. Can you really ever get enough of Argentina vs Brazil in men’s soccer/football? I don’t think so. Add in the rest of the South American teams who have something to say plus a fun-times Mexican team, and you have flares going all around.

These are the things I know about for sure. I believe U.S. Nationals for gymnastics will be in August but I’ll probably post on that when the time gets closer. In volleyball, the World League is going on but I can’t give much commentary for something I’m not watching. I’m sure it’s good stuff.

So yeah. There’s really too much going on for me to focus on all of it. It’ll be pretty evident what I’m following if you just look at my twitter (www.twitter.com/anonfangirl) and I’ll try to post when I have coherent thoughts.