SPORTS
Fantasy sports and me do not see eye to eye
With the National Football League starting this Thursday, the last few weeks have been prime time for the hundreds of thousands of fantasy football leagues to narrow down who they want to invite.
During this time, if you are a person who has expressed even a glimmer of interest in football to anyone you know, chances are someone will message you about joining their fantasy football league.
For those who do not know, fantasy sports are where fans draft real life players and earn points on a weekly basis based on how well they perform week-to-week. Fans can choose any professional sports league they care about to participate, but the most popular and accessible is a league following the NFL.
With almost all of the games in a week happening on one day and a head-to-head format, football is just easier to follow and an easier commitment for some casual fans. It is expected in this day and age if you are any kind of sports fan who knows how the internet works, you must play fantasy football. I am not one of those and people seem genuinely shocked when they find out.
As a kid who got into watching and following sports in fourth grade, about four years before some of my peers really started diving into that world themselves, sports has always been a personal interest for me.
Even if it was not widely popular amongst the general public, sports would be something I would be just as into. I am not a social sports fan, like my sister Carla who got into sports in her mid 20s riding the bandwagon of the Texas Rangers back-to-back World Series appearances in the early 2010s, likes all the social aspects of being a sports fan. She loves going to games, interacting with her favorite teams fan bases, buying team gear and has finally gotten enough courage to dip her toe into the fantasy sports scene. I love that about sports, it’s just not how I choose to consume them. The thing that really turns me off to fantasy sports is the potential situation of having to choose between rooting for the players on my fantasy team to do great when they are playing the actual team I root for. I have seen it first hand where Andrew was rooting for an opposing player to do well, but still hope Dallas wins.
I do not want to face those dilemmas. I’ll cheer individual players on other teams because I like them and will wish for their demise when they play the Cowboys. It’s just that simple for me as a fan, but for some fantasy sports players, their drafted players doing well mean more than if their team happened to win that day. Money is on the line in most cases.
I know fantasy sports are not going away and are only getting bigger. With the advent of daily fantasy becoming bigger, fantasy sports are just getting more and more accessible when it comes to other sports like basketball, baseball and soccer.
I see the value and entertainment value behind it, I just wish people would stop being shocked I do not participate.
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Bowie, playing on a short rest, held with host Jacksboro for most of the volleyball match Oct. 1, but the Tigerettes pulled away late and defeated the Lady Rabbits 3-1 (26-24, 12-25, 25-14, 22-25).
The match was scheduled for Oct. 2 but was moved. Both teams are now 2-2 in District 6-3A.
Jacksboro got out to a quick lead in game one before Olivia Stewart’s kill and a three-point Olivia Richey serving run put the visitors up 8-7. Junior Abby Reneau broke things open with a six-point string to give Bowie a 15-8 cushion and force Jacksboro into a timeout.
The Tigerettes came back and took an 18-16 lead. KP Rutherford’s kill broke the serve and allowed Molly Enlow to tie the game at 18.
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Gold-Burg Football Coach Austin Norman called his Bears’ 35-32 loss to host Perrin a “barn burner”.
It most definitely was as Gold-Burg, now 1-5 for the year gave the 5-1 Pirates everything they wanted for four quarters. Gold-Burg scored on the last play of the first half on a Peyton Epperson run with the two point conversion cutting the deficit to 20-16.
The Bears were their own worst enemy to open the third quarter with face mask and offside penalties moving the Pirates downfield setting up a first-and-goal at the Bear three. Defense by Epperson, Keelyn Case and Barrett Allen and a pair of Perrin penalties helped stop the drive and force a turnover on downs.
Gold-Burg was slapped with an intentional grounding penalty on the first play, giving Perrin a safety and extending the Pirate lead to 22-16. Defense by Epperson and JoJuan Grace after a first down run closed out the third quarter.
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Nocona and Prairie Valley cross country teams took part in the Prairie Valley Invitational Sept. 20 while Bowie varsity runners competed in the Lubbock Invitational.
Lubbock
Leading the Rabbits was Kellen Rater who finished 10th among 162 runners with a time of 17:24.50. Finishing behind Rater was Shawn Willett with a time of 19:33.20. Hayden Sutton ran a 20:27.10 followed by Taven Melton in 20:39.20, Coleman Holloway in 20:53.80 and Jaxon Castro with a time of 21:31.60.
Laney Segura led the Lady Rabbits with a time of 14:41.30. She was followed by Kylee Waldrep in 15:56.80, Bella Lozano in 16:04.80, Angeles Alvarez with a time of 16:15.40, AnDee Miller in 16:23.70 and Isabella Caswell in 16:51 flat.
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