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OK, so some of us aren’t big on making new year’s resolutions. Especially ones that might be more challenging than “Get out of bed after you wake up each day.”
And after breaking one so soon, you will understand the reluctance from yours truly to put down in writing (or the cyberspace equivalent) any resolutions.
If there was going to be such a list, this one would be on it: Don’t make fun of Dick Clark. Well, it really would have been made with good intentions. And his performance — brief as it might have been — on New Year’s Eve was an improvement over the one for the 2011 countdown show on ABC. But I just couldn’t help myself, could I?
And so it was that your humble correspondent made light of the darkness of the former “American Bandstand” host’s tannish tone for his skin color. Well, made fun of that and the way he sounds. And, yes, I realize the legendary TV personality had suffered a stroke in recent years and has worked hard on recovering from it. Even so, I still couldn’t stop.
As the old Oscar Wilde quote goes (and, yes, I also realize there are no new Wilde words of wisdom): “I can resist everything except temptation.”
To be fair (I know, why start now?), I suppose we all should check back with countdown host Ryan Seacrest in about 45 years and see how he has held up.
Anna Kournikova. Credit: Maxim
So what does this have to do with sports? Not much. But I’ll come up with some tangential link — mainly because I like the sound of “tangential.”
OK, five sports-related resolutions for 2012:
1. Be more positive about Chicago pro teams (as in positive none will win a championship in 2012?).
2. Go to the gym more (and possibly to work out rather than to assess the view and/or interview those who do work out)
3. Write a sports-themed book (this one might need an extension to 2013)
4. Use more sports-themed photos and videos on this site
5. Use more sports-related photos and videos of female athletes on this site
Speaking of which (as far as No. 5) …
At a New Year’s eve gathering, someone asked about who my favorite interview was. After a slight pause, I responded, “Anna Kournikova.” And then proceeded to explain how she had been a favorite from when I wrote the Quick Hits column in the Chicago Sun-Times.
A healty obsession was the rationale behind featuring her so frequently. It worked well then, so why not now?
And so in the wee hours of Jan. 1, 2012, it came to me: Time to revisit the former tennis star turned celebrity. All of which explains the accompanying video from 2009 or so (gee, that’s starting to sound so long ago):