Archive For The “John Simon” Category
I used to know how to write.
Sure, I have written a lot about Lehigh football, the Patriot League, the NFL, and whatever else I damn well please over the course of the last fourteen or more years. Maybe I didn’t write particularly great all the time — but sometimes, maybe more by accident than by design, the writing turned out OK.
But the one constant was that I wrote. I’d sit in front of the warm glow of the laptop monitor and write. I’d start in the bedroom, before my tired wife would kick me out and I’d write on the laptop in the office so that the clicking of the keys didn’t irritate her.
What I did know how to do was to put my face in front of the laptop and write about the sports subjects that interested me.
But these last few months, I’ve found it harder to come up with the energy to come up with posts every week. Since it’s the offseason, I’ve got some time to try to analyze it and think it through, and I think I’ve come up with a few reasons why.
If there is one simple answer to the question, it is: today’s world.
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Normally an event at Murray Goodman Stadium in August would involve Lehigh’s football team, either involving pictures for the upcoming season, or perhaps a scrimmage.
Not this Wednesday, however.
The announcement was largely expected in soccer circles, but yesterday’s announcement confirmed that the ownership team of the Philadelphia Union, they of Major League Soccer, were going to be launching a USL franchise in the Lehigh Valley, to be playing games at none other than Murray Goodman Stadium.
It’s a great thing for the Lehigh Valley, and a fantastic opportunity for Lehigh Atletics, too.
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