Profile Editor. Writer. 9-5er. Lord of the Dance. Blurredline.com Apodis Publishing Fusion Fragment cterrill(at)blurredline.com Buy Goodbye, Darwin Amazon.com Amazon.ca Chapters.ca Barnes&Noble.com Read it free in PDF Format Buy Blurred Line Amazon.com Amazon.ca Chapters.ca Barnes&Noble.com Read it free in PDF Format The Short Stuff "Learning Magic From Mint" - published May 2007 in Atomjack "Between Eternities" - published October 2005 at Speculative.ca "Smoke and Mirrors" - published June 2005 in Byzarium Submissions Log Total Subs: 25 Acceptances: 3 Rejections: 17 Withdrawals: 3 Subs Out: 2 Quality Blogs Scalzi's Whatever Dave's Blogography Bookslut The Struggling Writer SF Signal the0phrastus Paperback Writer Scribe's Writing Desk Nathan Bransford Lyons Literary LLC The World in the Satin Bag Book In The Oven The Word Perhaps We Learned Something... Words, etc. Archives March 2005 April 2005 May 2005 June 2005 July 2005 August 2005 September 2005 October 2005 November 2005 December 2005 January 2006 February 2006 March 2006 April 2006 May 2006 June 2006 July 2006 August 2006 September 2006 October 2006 November 2006 December 2006 January 2007 February 2007 March 2007 April 2007 May 2007 June 2007 July 2007 August 2007 September 2007 October 2007 November 2007 November 2008 December 2008 January 2009 February 2009 March 2009 Et Cetera Cavan @ Last.fm Cavan @ LibraryThing Feeds Atom Feed RSS Feed	Sunday, April 30, 2006 - Sports and Fiction The city was in a pretty good mood last night, after this. I, of course, was planted in front of the TV, watching the game (which was pretty exciting, by the way). Now that the Sens have taken out the defending Stanley Cup champs, they'll move on to play either Montreal (if the Habs can come back in their series) or New Jersey (which seems more likely). The Devils would be a tough second round matchup, so it'd make for a good series. Anyhow, I ended up thinking about sports and fiction. Generally, especially in SF, sports end up being a pretty cheesy affair (Rollerball, anyone?). I remember reading one of Arthur C. Clarke's Rama books as a kid and one of the characters was always going on about the Lunar Olympics, which I thought sounded terrible silly. That said, though, Rowling managed to pull off things pretty well in the HP series - I found the Quidditch matches to be a fairly interesting addition to the book. Still, it seems that sports in fiction is on the outs these days. All you have to do is look at the sports movies that have come out recently: Glory Road, Miracle, Friday Night Lights, Coach Carter. All of them are based on real events. Has it become the case, then, that fictional portrayal of sports are entirely irrelevant in today's fiction? Have you ever written about any sports in your fiction? Cavan blogged at 10:17 AM | 0 comments	Progress Zilch! 0/0 Listening A.J. Croce - "Maybe I'm Amazed" My Music Reading Bright Lights, Big City - Jay McInerney My Library Watching Black Book: B Sweet and Lowdown: C Breakfast on Pluto: B Wishlist Bridge of Sighs - Richard Russo Rachael Yamagata - Elephants...Teeth Sinking Into Heart