Mission Statement

I don't own a TV.

The reason why I don't own a TV is simple: my wife refuses to have one in the house. When we were engaged my parents offered me a spare TV they had lying around the house (bequeathed to them when my brother upgraded his TV) and my soon-to-be wife was quite firm that she didn't even want even a free TV around.

This creates some problems as a sports fan. The Texas/USC Rose Bowl occurred a couple of weeks after we were married. The next day at school I had the following conversation:

Buddy: Did you seen the USC/Texas game last night?
Me: I don't own a TV
Buddy: Wow

I also live in Alaska and due to some differences between how Internet services are priced here and in the Lower 48, it is ridiculously expensive to have unlimited Internet. So we have a monthly cap that we must manage. This precludes watching live game streams.

So what is a sports fan to do? I read blogs, look at ESPN.com and listen to the occasional audio feed of Oregon State sports. Does this make me less of an informed sports fan? Maybe, maybe not. But this blog is intended to be a look into how one fan manages to follow the sports he enjoys sans TV.