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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 1. 2011
TRIVIA OF THE DAY
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a: What conference was Texas A&M part of before the Big 12?
A: Southwest Conference.
QUOTE OF THE DAY
"Texas A&M is a proud member of the Big 12 Conference and will continue to be affiliated with the conference in the future."
Texas A&M President
R. Bowen Loftin in a
June 15, 2010 article
FACT OF THE DAY
Since joining the Big 12, Texas A&M has zero basketball conference championships and one football conference championship (1998).
— cbssports.com
Passion will translate to French sports
THE MORNING BREW
My French might falter, but my love of sports never will.
By the time you are reading this I will be spending my first afternoon of many in Europe. I'm studying in France for the semester to finish out my French minor, and I am both extremely nervous and excited about the trip.
Despite taking six years of French classes, I still do not possess as much confidence as I would like in my French skills. I'm nervous about getting around France with trivial, everyday things. Will I remember how to ask directions? Will I be able to have, you know, conversations with people? How do I not look like
Max Lush
mlush@kansan.com
One thing that I am not worried about is translating my passion for sports. When I was a toddler, no teddy bears graced my sheets. No, when I was a wee one I slept with one thing and one thing only: a black and green soccer ball. That thing never left my side. I took it everywhere and with it my never-ending love for sports kicked off.
an ignorant American?
Aside from perfecting my French, I'm eager to learn about European sporting culture. The city where I'll be studying, Angers,
France, is home to three professional sports teams: a second division soccer team, a first division ice hockey team and a second division basketball team.
The flow between first and second divisions in European sports leagues perhaps interests me the most. The bottom three teams of the top league get relegated to the second tier league, while the top three teams from the second tier get promoted to the first tier. The same ebb and flow happens in third and fourth tier divisions.
The amount of devotion and love a fan must have for their team when it gets demoted to a lower league is hard to fathom. Yes, my
San Francisco 49ers have been terrible for about, oh, a decade or so, but there is always next year to look to in America. Sure, they could be the worst team in the NFL, but there's always a high draft pick to look forward to, right? As much as I love the Niners, if looking forward to next year meant watching Alex Smith toss pick after pick in the freaking UFL, my passion would be fading fast.
Imagine how much less fun game day at Memorial Stadium, Allen Fieldhouse, Hogland Ballpark or any of the University's sports complexes would be if a single bad season meant the next would be spent toiling away in Division II sports.
Now imagine the life of a coach trying to recruit athletes to a recently relegated team. I prefer imagining a world where the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry exists, thank you very much.
I truly believe the best way to understand a culture is to understand the sports they play and watch. So while I study French, I plan on attending as many sporting events in Europe as I can. Or at least as many as I can afford. Along the way, I hope to learn about why sports are so universally accepted and loved.
THIS WEEK IN SPORTS
— Edited by Jonathan Shorman
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