Truthteller, a contestant in the Foxsport Next Great Sportswriter contest, is hoping that this will be the last Christmas he spends at home with his family.
“I love my wife and kids, but I’m really hoping to become a sportswriter and be on the road for the holidays, covering things like the Motor City Bowl and top-flight high-school basketball tournaments”, said Truthteller.
If he wins the contest, Truthteller expects that a good portion of his life will be spent drinking too much in seedy watering holes with other flabby, pasty-faced journalists and a smattering of expat Brits, his sad vulnerability occasionally attracting the attention of world-weary women with husky voices from smoking too much.
Truthteller claims that the competition is extremely tough but still holds out some chance of winning. “As long as merit doesn’t play too heavily in the judges’ decisions, it’s possible that I could sneak into the top 16”, stated Truthteller, “especially if there is a really good blogger out there with a name confusingly similar to mine”.
Having experienced a long history of personal disappointmen t and mediocrity in numerous sports at many different levels (my failures attributable to both sloppy work habits and the lack of natural ability) it is with a new sense of empowerment that I take on the task of trying to illuminate the deficiencies and missteps of those much better than myself.
