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Fantasy sports and me do not see eye to eye

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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.

To read the full story, pick up a copy of the weekend edition of the Bowie News.

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Bowie Sports Banquet

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The Bowie sports banquets was on Monday night. Olivia Gill and Tucker Jones were named Jackrabbit and Lady Rabbit of the year. Pick up the mid-week paper for all of the sports team awards and pictures.

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Chisholm Trail Rodeo entertains crowd

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A steer wrestler gets a good grip as he comes off his horse to get the steer on the ground. (Photo by Benjimen Barker from J Bar S Photography)

The 72nd Chisholm Trail Rodeo was a big success on Friday and Saturday nights at Nocona.
The rodeo had big crowds and saw some good competition from both local and far reaching talent.
Winners in the events included Zach Hibler in bareback riding, Lindsey Muggli in barrel racing, Ashley Goforth in breakaway roping, Leanardo Lima in bull riding, Cody McCartney in calf roping, Thomas Moellering in ranch bronc riding, Wacey Hathcock in saddle bronc riding, Renato Finazzi in steer wrestling, Rowdy Jones and Rance Doyal in team roping.

To see full results and more pictures, pick up a copy of the mid-week edition of the Bowie News.

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Saint Jo pair heading back to state tennis

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Saint Jo girl’s doubles team Kyler Dunn and Taylor Patrick won the 1A region III tournament to earn a second straight trip to state. (Courtesy photo)

The regional tennis tournaments were late last week in North Richland Hills and a doubles team is moving on to state.
The Saint Jo girl’s doubles team Kyler Dunn and Taylor Patrick won the 1A region III tournament and will return to state for the second straight year.
The pair rolled through teams from Morgan, Dodd City, Priddy before beating a Graford team in the finals. The pair did not lose a set and only lost five of the 53 games it played, never losing more than one in a set.
The team made it to state last year after finishing second at regionals and won a match at the state meet against a team from Vernon Northside. They then lost to the eventual state champion team from Utopia and finished tied for third place.
They will be the only tennis players from Montague County playing at state this week as others did not have as successful regional tournament.
The Saint Jo teammates and fellow girl’s doubles team Bailie Nobile and Maxey Johnson won their first match against Ector 6-1, 6-4, but fell in their next match against Lometa, 6-1, 6-1.
From Prairie Valley, Case Carpenter was competing in boy’s singles. His first match was a draining two and half hour battle against a player from Strawn Carpenter came through in the three-set battle, winning 6-4, 5-7, 6-4.
Unfortunately, the magic was not there in the second game. Paired against the eventual tournament champion from Gustine, Carpenter lost 6-0, 6-1.
From Gold-Burg, Alyson Rojas and Jimena Garcia competed in girl’s singles. Rojas won her first match against a girl from Avinger 7-6, 6-2. Unfortunately, the next match she lost to a girl from Graford 6-0, 6-0 to end her tournament.
Garcia lost a tough first match against a player from Ector. Both sets could have gone either way with the scores being 6-4, 7-5 to the winner.
The mixed doubles team from Forestburg, Jesse Wadsworth and Alli Cisneros, also did not make it through.
From Nocona, Kaygan Stone was playing in the girl’s singles 2A region II tournament.
Unfortunately, she got paired against the player who would go on to win the tournament in the first round to end her season.

To read the full story, pick up a copy of the mid-week edition of the Bowie News.

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