Patiently Waiting

October 20, 2009 | by Carron J. PhillipscloseAuthor: Carron J. Phillips Name: Carron Phillips
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When you’re a kid around the ages of 6-13 there is a special feeling of anticipation and anxiety that hits you once a year. Christmas Eve is the best day ever when you’re a tiny lad. You stay up all night hoping that your parents got you everything that you asked for, you fall asleep with butterflies in your stomach, and you wake up extra early just to run under the Christmas tree to see what is finally inside those wrapped boxes.  But as time passes and we grow older, the anticipation and butterflies of Christmas Eve go away. We grow into teenagers and young adults, and before you know it we have turned into parents ourselves.

However, I have discovered that the same feelings we shared as children on Christmas Eve is still alive in some of us.  NBA and College Basketball fans are dealing with that Christmas Eve anxiety right now.  If you are a true sports fan like I am this is the best time of the year; hockey is about kick off, the NFL and College Football are in full swing, and Joe Buck is back on Fox doing the baseball playoffs.  But for all the true die hard basketball fans, myself included, it seems like it’s taking forever for basketball to get started.  ESPN has been showing clips from Midnight Madness kicking off, Rivals.com has their list of the next best high school hardwood top recruits, the NBA preseason is underway, NBA Live and 2K10 commercials seen to come on every 15 minutes, and yet the anticipation of hearing Dick Vitale, Gus Johnson, and Marv Albert call a game is unbearable.  Because once the college and the NBA have kicked off, SportsCenter will be in its prime.  We will get to see highlights from all the major sports whether they’re collegiate or professional.  It’s kind of like Voltron, all the sports combining to making one big smorgasbord of passion and fanatic-ness.

Is fanatic-ness a word?

Oct 27^th and Nov 3^rd are the days that are circled on my calendar.  The end of the month will mark the return of the NBA.  With all the happenings that took place this off-season this will be one of the most anticipated NBA season in contemporary history.  And the beginning of November will launch my favorite sport in the entire world, College Basketball.  With new recruits, and player and coaching scandals galore this off-season crazy co-eds and alums from around the country will be tuning in to ESPN and CBS religiously prepping for the  euphoria known as March Madness.

But for now we must wait.  We must occupy our time with highlights of football and update our rosters on Xbox 360, because it isn’t Christmas morning yet. But it does feel like December 23^rd, and our impatience and waiting will finally come to an end.