This is Jerrybear54's Sports Desk. Although I am into many other things besides sports, I got the name from the late author Hunter S. Thompson, who often referred to "the sports desk" in his writings. I liked the way he combined insightful commentary on sports, politics, popular culture, and whatever else was on his mind.

My favorite sports are women's basketball and United States style football (I refer to it this way to differentiate it from the game that is generally known as "soccer" in the USA but generally as "football" in the rest of the world). I also like women's fast pitch softball and baseball, field and ice hockey, and men's basketball.

I am very interested in the various countercultures of the United States, especially the hippie and beatnik ones. The Grateful Dead, Jefferson Airplane, Janis Joplin, and Bob Dylan are some of my favorite musical acts and some of my favorite writers include Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, and Richard Brautigan.

My politics are left/socialist/anarchist/Green Party.

That's some of the basics about me...more posts to come.