Welcome to The Hangover, a semi-regular offseason item I’ve elected to start on weeks such as this, when children/work/travel/obligation have elected to cut deeply into both my subconscious and my time (or, failing at that, when there’s nothing particularly noteworthy happening). The promise of two things per week holds true, and thus has been born this attempt at offering tips, tricks and tales for better living until college basketball returns.
How is this different than just ranting and raving about whatever I want? Mind your own damn business is how.
The Women’s World Cup
A long-held rule I have is that any sporting event where the absolute best in the world are competing is a sporting event worth, at minimum, checking in on if you have even passing interest in it. It’s how curling went from polite curio to distinctly regional sport here, it’s why (in my opinion) the Women’s College World Series does numbers for ESPN and it’s why I’ll absolutely wreck my sleep schedule the next few weeks to watch soccer on the actual literal other side of the world.
The Women’s World Cup checks a number of boxes for me, personally. Mellow viewing that can be done while writing or working on something else (seriously, I’m watching Nigeria-Canada right now; it absolutely slaps and I can keep one eye on it and another thinking up my next witty repartee). Largely low stakes for me personally, although I will do the thing I always do and get wayyyyyyyy too invested in the USWNT. And it’s on during insomniac hours!