{"id":5103,"date":"2010-05-24T08:00:39","date_gmt":"2010-05-24T13:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sinclairclarion.com\/home\/?p=5103"},"modified":"2017-06-22T11:39:41","modified_gmt":"2017-06-22T16:39:41","slug":"who-cares-about-sinclair-sports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sinclairclarion.com\/home\/tartan-news\/2010\/05\/24\/who-cares-about-sinclair-sports\/","title":{"rendered":"Who cares about Sinclair sports?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Before I got a job with the school newspaper, I always used to wonder why the Clarion<\/em> gave so much coverage to the school\u2019s baseball and basketball teams.<\/p>\n

\u201cDon\u2019t they have anything more important to write about?\u201d I used to think to myself. \u201cIf I ever got a job there I would write about stuff that actually mattered.\u201d<\/p>\n

Well I\u2019ve been here a whole year and you know what I\u2019ve written about most?<\/p>\n

The baseball and basketball teams, and I\u2019ve enjoyed it.<\/p>\n

When I was first asked to cover the men\u2019s basketball team in August, I had never attended a sporting event in three years at Sinclair Community College. I just assumed that junior college sports couldn\u2019t be that interesting.<\/p>\n

That all changed after seeing Tartan Pride forward British Alexander jump four feet off the ground to convert an alley-oop pass thrown off the backboard by teammate Jared Nolan.<\/p>\n

The crowd went wild and my perception of junior college sports changed forever.<\/p>\n

On Jan. 14, I witnessed the biggest and most enthusiastic group of Sinclair students I\u2019d ever seen in one place when the No. 12 Tartan Pride took on the No. 5 Columbus State Cougars.<\/p>\n

The crowd was on the edge of their seats the entire game and cheered the Tartan Pride every time they made a defensive stop or converted a fast break. I cheered along with them and have never felt more apart of Sinclair than I did during those memorable couple of hours.<\/p>\n

Best of all, Sinclair sporting events are free to everyone with a Tartan Card, although it\u2019s a slight hassle traveling to Xenia to see the baseball team.<\/p>\n

But I did make it to one baseball game during the OCCAC Conference Tournament and found it entertaining as well.<\/p>\n

Every player on the baseball team has their own theme song that plays when they take the mound to pitch or come to the plate to hit. I couldn\u2019t stop laughing when they played wrestler Hulk Hogan\u2019s theme music \u201cReal American\u201d or the music from the Skyline Chili commercial.<\/p>\n

To everyone that will be attending Sinclair next year, I encourage you to attend at least one sporting event.<\/p>\n

I think you\u2019ll be surprised by the experience.<\/p>\n

I was.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Before I got a job with the school newspaper, I always used to wonder why the Clarion gave so much coverage to the school\u2019s baseball and basketball teams. \u201cDon\u2019t they have anything more important to write about?\u201d I used to think to myself. \u201cIf I ever got a job there I would write about stuff […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":90,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3],"tags":[1402,276,1383,930],"class_list":["post-5103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tartan-news","tag-samuel-huist","tag-sinclair-community-college","tag-sports","tag-tartan-pride"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":false,"source_text":false,"source_url":false},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5s3vR-1kj","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sinclairclarion.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sinclairclarion.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sinclairclarion.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sinclairclarion.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/90"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sinclairclarion.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5103"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.sinclairclarion.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5103\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5104,"href":"https:\/\/www.sinclairclarion.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5103\/revisions\/5104"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sinclairclarion.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sinclairclarion.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sinclairclarion.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}