I'm absolutely an avowed sports nut. Have been my whole life. As a kid, I'd memorize stats and create fictitious scoreboards with National Hockey League expansion teams that I'd one day own. I was actually the owner of the NHL team in Québec City over a decade before we had one. Except that I stole the name "Sandsharks" from the L.A. franchise of the World Hockey Association and I wasn't 11 yet.
I could draw a remarkably spiffy sandshark.
How I loved the WHA. Man, that was MY league. The NHL was for suckers, I reasoned, as a ten-year-old. The WHA was my terrain. Dude.
I've done business in the same way. I don't want old, established, slow. I don't live an in-person weekly meetings, a cubicle and committees business life and I never will. I crave lean and relevant and highly functional. I choose creative over dull. "zing!" resonates infinitely more with me than "meh."
I have a ridiculous number of passions in life. The art is found in multitasking the bejeezus out of them. I want my daily life to be a dashboard of each one of these passions and most days I give myself at least a solid "B" in being able to pull that off.
As for the passion that is sport, it's really broad. As I live a global life, and we have this Interwebs thingy, I can follow results from around the world. Just to give you a sense of how much of sport I love, here are the leagues I follow and my favorite teams. Somewhat pathetically, I've kept lists such as this since I was four, probably the year I became so passionately OCD 
National Hockey League: Chicago Blackhawks (not a bandwagon-jumper, I suffered through the lean years)
Major League Baseball: San Francisco Giants
National Basketball Association: Miami Heat
National Football League: New York Jets
English Premier League football: Arsenal (This makes me reviled globally, but I'm a Gunner through and through. Let the hate mails flow.)
Swedish Eliteserien hockey: Djurgården
Indian Premier League cricket: Mumbai Indians
NCAA basketball: University of North Carolina Tarheels
Canadian Football League: Montreal Alouettes
German Bundesliga football: Bayern Munich
NCAA hockey: Maine Black Bears
Mexican Primera Division football: Cruz Azul
NCAA football: University of Southern California Trojans (as he hangs his head in shame and disgust)
Formula 1 auto racing: McLaren
Nippon Professional Baseball League Japan: Hiroshima Carp
While this may seem an exhaustive list, it's barely a dent because I've listed only major pro or college leagues. I love junior and minor league hockey, even follow hockey in developing hockey nations such as Malaysia and China. And I didn't even list individual sports, such as golf, tennis and, yeah, squash. I love playing and watching squash and I'm willing to bet that I can crush you on a squash court in fact, I have a beer riding on it.
Part of our attraction to sport is fantasy. Part is truth, part fiction. We love the escape, getting lost in the game. Most of all, I think, we love victories, large and small. We love watching the little guy win (we all remember Flutie's Hail Mary pass against the Irish) and we love watching dynasties (Jordan and his Bulls).
Most of all, we just love it because, well, there's just so much to love.
When I grow up I'm going to own the Québec Sandsharks, even if it's a "Junior C" team.
Just watch.
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