The Sporting Life

摘要

Thanks to old habits (which really do die hard, for you lovers of cliches), your Field Correspondent still tends to watch sports a little differently than most even though we're no longer a sportswriter. And while we have overcome the compulsion to take copious notes about everything on TV, whether it's baseball or golf, we do still have a tendency to study the competitors closely-especially after they have grounded out meekly to second base, finished fifth in the 100-meter dash, or come up inches short on fourth-and-1.