Those of you who have gotten to know me know that I am absolutely a sports freak.  So this time of year is absolutely my favorite, because especially in an Olympic year, I am in sports heaven.

We start off the year with the US Figure Skating Championships.  The men’s championship blew me away.  Although I am an Evan Lysacek fan, Jeremy Abbott has been growing on me.  I adored his short program choreography and his long program simply blew me away (and blew the field away too!).  If you are an Olympics fan, don’t you dare miss the men’s final, because it will simply rock and the US has three legitimate medal contenders!

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Then, we move on to the Australian Open.  Huge tennis fan here.  Lots of late nights were spent watching the Aussie Open, and I was thrilled to see Serena gut it out and win, although I would have loved Murray to pull through.  Shame Roddick didn’t make it further as well.

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Next up, we have the pièce de résistance, the Winter Olympics.  From Feb 12-28, I will be glued to the television.  The Olympics are, to me, one of the last pure things in the world – seeing athletes come together under a common spirit to strive to perform their best when it counts… it just doesn’t get better than that.  During the Winter Olympics, my husband and I literally watch every single minute we can.  Obviously, as a former figure skater, that is near and dear to my heart, but we love it all, right down to the curling.

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The sports craze doesn’t end there – oh no, it’s far from over and we don’t even get a break.  March is chock-full of Spring Training goodness.  It’s every year during March that I wish I lived in Orlando, so that I could see this each day:

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And of course we are big college basketball fans, so the March madness also descends upon us.  Juggling the two gets tiring, let me tell you!

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Then, finally – FINALLY – baseball season is here and after an excruciatingly long off-season, I can root for my Braves once again.

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So I’m already tired just thinking about the next few months!  But it’s always so so worth the sleep deprivation. 

Are you as much of a sports nut as I am?