July & August- Also Known as the sports Dead Zone

I freely admit that the summer months hold little sports interest to me. While I can appreciate a well played baseball game in Camden Yards, to laboriously follow a team through 162 games wears on me greatly. While baseball playoffs hold great suspense often unmatched by other sports, the doldrums of the season is akin to chewing on a piece of fat.

Here are my summer sports highlights (also known as the only way I can make it from the end of basketball to NFL pre-season)

- The NBA draft - Zaniness abounds in this event that now seems to have more of a high school prom/UN convention flavor to it.

- The NBA off-season - It began at the beginning of July, and on 7/15 new deals can be finally consummated. We shall see ridiculous amounts of cash promised to marginal players who will celebrate their newfound riches and guaranteed contract by taking the year off. Hey, wouldn't you???

- Tour de Lance, er, France - It comes like a rite of summer as we watch perhaps the finest athlete of our generation strive for the record books.

...And now we have our lengthy intermission...

-Finally NFL pre-season camp comes. If you are fortunate enough to live nearby an NFL training camp, you can gain access to the team like no other time during the regular season. Unless of course your local team stupidly decides to charge admission. (and no, that will not be my last Danny Snyder quip)

While we do have the Olympics to sidetrack us, I feel that it will be mostly a car crash curiosity to see if the NBA pros can blow it again, and who gets caught doping.

And yet we still will watch...