There is certainly an underrepresentation of Asian Pacific Islanders in professional sports/athletics.
When I was much younger and still competing in gymnastics, I could rarely find inspiration outside of the sport.
Gymnastics, especially in my family, is more than a sport. It's our life, it's our careers, it's our family business.
Even now, my husband Jerry, our son Matthew and I live only five minutes away from my parents home, and my brothers live about ten minutes away. It's been great having such a supportive family.
I find interesting characters or lessons that resonate with people and sometimes I write about them in the sports pages, sometimes I write them in a column, sometimes in a novel, sometimes a play or sometimes in nonfiction. But at the core I always say to myself, 'Is there a story here? Is this something people want to read?'
My favourite sport is cheerleading!
I can inspire people on how to use money, how to get economically powerful.
I feel bad about my outlook, how I feel about people and society, and that I'll never be part of society the way I should.
I just look around and say, I'm a mess. I don't know why I do things.
I ain't the same person I was when I bit that guy's ear off.
One of the proudest things I see is, now, 25 years after I graduated, when I go to a Syracuse sporting event, there's a senior or a junior from WAER broadcasting sports just the way we did, and just the way it happened a couple generations before us. That's a great legacy for the university and a great tradition that still continues to this day, and makes those of us who were a small part of it very very proud.
You can't just look at the back section of the newspaper or the sports section by itself. You need to understand everything that's going on.
As a woman in sport media, you have to be smart. You use what you can to your advantage and make sure you know what you're talking about or you're A) not going to last very long or B) never going to get a good job. I think we've come a long way and probably still have a ways to go, but... I just don't take any of this super seriously. I'm not curing cancer and I'm not a doctor. It's just television. I don't know why some people get so worked up about it.
Football can stand parity better than any of the other sports, I think. Baseball, basketball and hockey need a defining team, in essence to frame the season. Football? Not so much.
The only reason I started swimming was for water safety. Then, once I started falling in love with sports, I got more comfortable with it.
I have reached a place in my life where I need to sit down and say, 'Well, what do I do? What's best for me?' I need to look into options for the future.
If you're not on your 'A' game in our workouts every day, you're going to get absolutely smoked.
Politics in Philadelphia is a contact sport.
Sports events do not really exist at all unless there is a certain order and fairness - justice in each event.
I think that people who have played sports have an ability to relate to people because when you're playing you have to work on teams and with opposing players
Chess will always be in the doldrums as a spectator sport while a draw is given equal mathematical value as a decisive result.
Sports have become increasingly more specialized, but that doesn't mean they shouldn't be fun.
Sport taught me how to goal set, it really gave me a voice and identity.
My first waitress job was at Johnny Rockets in New Jersey, and then I waited tables at a sports bar.
Many people consider darts a sport, with a live audience and very excited fans and competitors who aren`t hitting the bull`s-eye.
