Summer of Sports '21: A DCBLOG Look Ahead

BY DC CUEVA                        

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In my world, there are four huge passions of mine: television (with a slant towards MTV reality shows), music, Las Vegas and something that's been in my blood almost since I was a kid: sports. I have had a solid passion for it for years and years when it comes to the wide world of athletic competition, and not a day goes by that a mention of sports goes unnoticed in the Cueva household, whether it's watching our favorite sport of the NBA or the many viewing parties of many Super Bowls, boxing fights and beyond.

Back in 2015 during a historic year in many ways in the world of sports, DCBLOG took advantage of a summer off from covering MTV's The Challenge (appropriately entitled America's fifth major pro sport) to offer a season of blog posts devoted to covering topics, issues and primers on the sports world. It coincided with the traditionally-packed season of big events during this time such as the international soccer, the Wimbledon tennis tournament, the Tour de France and the World Series of Poker, plus the UFC, golf and Australian rules football. We've also gotten to do two series of Olympic posts on here when Sochi hosted the 2014 Winter Games and the 2016 Summer Games two years later in Rio, along with a few football posts when Super Bowl 50 was held in the Bay Area.

As my MTV slate is light this summer as far as the blog is concerned, this opens up the calendar for me to devote another series of sports posts that will fill this time which --- thanks to the pandemic pushing back the sports calendar a bit -- will offer plenty of check out on here over the next couple months. Just glancing over at the 200+ drafts I have of posts that I have never posted on here, many of them are sports-related that were put on the backburner due to my total focus on other matters... and when the schedule provides for that it will finally be posted on here.

Considering that the Olympic Games are my favorite event, there will be a number of posts covering that part of the sporting world that only get the attention during the fortnight... and they will be up during the Games, perhaps on a daily or regular basis. That is the tentative plan, provided that I have time to post all of those since I will be hunkered down in my room to binge-watch all the action when competition begins a few days prior to the Opening Ceremony in a few weeks' time.

Since our first season of sports posts seven years ago, something that has emerged into the American sporting discussion has been of sports betting and fantasy sports... something that became ubiquitous when commercials by DraftKings and FanDuel aired around the clock in the 2015 NFL season. We plan to kick off our 2021 sports series with a primer on sports betting in the week ahead, and we'll also delve into the fantasy sports world too. 

There are also posts on sports not well known in America that are planned to come on here including cricket, darts, rugby, Formula 1 auto racing and Canada's take on football. There's also other sporting topics such as the fandom that the nation of Australia have for sport, the first stadium in the entire world to have a retractable roof, and a few other things. Of course, this are our plans during this special season of blog posts... but it's when the run-up kicks off to Season 37 of The Challenge do we wind down our sports season on here and turn our focus back to preparing for all the action and drama from Croatia.

So, that's just a brief Look Ahead to what we got ahead of us in this Summer of Sports... and we'll see you for post #1 just to come.

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