Dr. Livingstone, I Presume?
MAJOR BLOGS - www.majorblogs.net - The famous explorer Sir Henry M. Stanley, who went in search of the lost British explorer Dr. Livingstone must have felt a bit like I've been feeling the last few years. You have to beat the bushes pretty hard to find not only a whole world of sports that has, to date, been underground, local, and nearly invisible to the national media.
Minor league baseball is pretty easy to find. It is well connected and a century old system. Reporters are easy to come by. Try to find someone, though, with a passion for the NBA D-League, or the National Lacrosse League, and I'm back out in the jungle looking for Dr. Livingstone.
In a world where everyone seems to think that everything worth seeing and doing shows up on television, there is a vast, and really exciting world of sports that are played with passion, great heart, and energy by people who love the games they play so much that they will shine in front of crowds of a few hundred to 20,000.
When people tell me that sports has turned into an entertainment, and that you can't expect much from people who no longer care about the game because it's a business, pure and simple, I tell them to take a drive or a plane and find sports.
They're still out there, and I'm still in here trying to get you all to see the wonder that is all but gone at the major league level. If you find me reporters, send a runner to the river. I shall be on the boat when the tide raises at the beginning of the rainy season.
Brian Ross
in Basketball, Football, Sports Business, Sports Journalism
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