Women's Volleyball

Today, I watched women's volleyball between USA and Italy. I thought Italy would win it because they won the first and third sets but USA made a come back, winning the fourth and fifth set. Then it struck me, I was watching a delayed telecast. It didn't occur to me until the USA team won. They won at exactly 12 noon, just the right time for the track-and-field covergae. Duh. How stupid of me. NBC would not televise it, anyway, if the USA team lost.

What an exciting sports volleyball is. I took it as a PE course back in college. I wanted to overcome my fear of the sport. When I was in high school, I thought the volleyball court was enourmous. I was a small girl (I still am) and watching the game at the sideline, the ball would always come my way and hit me. I developed a mini-phobia of volleyballs going astray. Volleyball was always the in sports in high school and only the tall pretty girls were trying out. So if you think you do not fit in the primary qualification, don't even try.

So back in college, I took volleyball as a PE just so my obscure concept and perception of it would be corrected. It did but I did not really learn how to play it. Maybe I learned the technical part. And yet watching volleyball today I realized that I already forgot how the scoring system goes. College was many many years back. Ask me on tennis or baseball and I probably could tell you.