Michael Jordan once said, “Just play. Have fun. Enjoy the game.” The number one thing that makes me lose track of all time is talking about or playing sports. Ever since I was a little kid, I have always had a blazing passion for any sport, as a matter of fact. It all started when I was three or four years old when I got a Little Tikes basketball hoop. It was then and there that my love for sports began, although my father truly got me into sports in general. When I was five or six, he would let me and my brother stand on the roof of his car and shoot the basketball from there. I don’t know why, but the basic motion of shooting a ball at a basket was so relaxing. It was like watching a knife piercing through butter. Then, about three years afterward, my father brought my brother and me to our very first Boston Celtics game. At that game, I knew I had ultimately fallen in love with the game of basketball and also sports in general. Then, three months later, I found myself at America’s Most Beloved Ballpark, Fenway Park, to see a Red Sox game for the first time. Although we did not stay for the whole game (there was a two-and-a-half-hour rain delay), it was a memory that will stick with me for the rest of my life. Before I even went to Fenway Park, I watched Red Sox games with my grandfather. Even when I was five years old, I would watch the games with him. When he passed away in March of 2019 is when I only pressed harder for my love of baseball. I made the team senior year and now get to every Red Sox game that I have the opportunity. 

When it comes to talking about sports, whether it be analytics of a player or a team or talking about the game that is on or about to happen, the people I turn to are my father or friends. I, however, have a long list of sources I turn to. The sources could be Bleacher Report, ESPN, CBS, etc. On multiple occasions, I have lost track of time putting on a simulated sports video game (if not multiple games). I mute the audio on the TV during the games and film myself commentating on the game(s). After every game, I try to critique myself, giving myself two or three things that I did well and two or three things that I can improve upon. Another way I practice sports broadcasting is I will have somebody who I am talking about sports with give me a random topic. The goal is to talk for just a few minutes. Sometimes the topic is something or someone that I have never really heard of, so I do not have much to say about the subject. Then there are the topics that I have to summarize because I could go on all day about them. However, the moment that I knew that I could bring something to the table was on the night of Super Bowl 51. We were at my relative's house for a Super Bowl party, and my uncle and father started asking me a couple of questions here and there about the game (player’s stats, general trivia, and the breakdown of plays). At one point, the question “Is Tom Brady the G.O.A.T?” came up and I went into a long speech about why he would be only if the Patriots won the game. I had to research and educate myself on the first three Super Bowls that the Patriots won because I was not even born yet. Almost simultaneously, my uncle and father told me that I would make an excellent sports broadcaster. I will always and forever have a passion for sports that burns brighter than the sun. What started as a passion will one day become a career.