Hooray Sports!

This weekend I had full intentions to go to the Red & White Scrimmage at UW-Madison to get a general idea of how the basketball team will be this season. So I could, you know, write about sports. Well, a hangover from peach bellini vodka and cranberry juice won, and I napped on the couch for basically the whole day. I had been thinking I was going to have absolutely NO content to discuss this week, since I slept through all the football games, the World Series isn't set to start until today, the Bulls don't give me much to talk about right now, etc., etc. Then, much to my surprise, the sports gods answered and my favorite blog site (besides mine duh), Barstool Sports, was done dirty by ESPN by cancelling Barstool Van Talk  (you'll see me refer to this as BVT throughout the post) after one episode. For those of you who don't know, Barstool Sports  is a multifunctional sports blog. I say multifunctional because their content has expanded from creating content sole...

If you've come here because I shamelessly requested you read my blog, then welcome! If you're here by chance and chance only, then welcome to you too! My name is Kayla, for those of you who don't know me, and I'm a Chicago sports fan living in Wisconsin, which is as painstaking as you think it might be. I'm writing this fresh off of a Cubbies loss in the NLCS, but I have no words so we'll just go ahead and skip that take (other than we had no bullpen so...). I decided that there aren't enough women involved in sports blogging, so I wanted to go ahead and start my own.  I interpret the quote "Hooray sports! Do the thing! Win the points!" as satire. If, like my mom, you're unfamiliar with this or the term "sportsball" (I'm talking to you, Super Bowl party goers that don't actually like or enjoy football), they are often used by people who are not necessarily educated on the sport they are watching. Or, if you're like some...