It’s fall (finally). If you live anywhere in the lower 48, on the weekends you’ll probably start experiencing nice outdoor temperatures, the smell of freshly cut grass and food grilling and the sound of “hut hut”. For the sports enthusiasts among us, it’s football time. The college football season started last night and the NFL season kicks off September 4th.
A lot of our readers, probably have these NFL teams you follow rabidly, and perhaps even keep up with sporting exploits of the college you graduated from or grew up around. If you’re like me, you probably have some questions about how your team will fare this season. Maybe you have some questions about other sports like basketball or racing or even the recently concluded Olympics. Perhaps, at times, you wonder at times about the lack of South Asian athletes in American sports. I could answer some questions for you, after all I won my Fantasy Football league last season and also sleep at Holiday Inns occasionally. But for me to talk about Amrikan sports, I have to give it a desi quotient. Besides, why settle for me, when you can get the best in the sports business.
Aditi Kinkhabwala has graciously agreed to answer your questions, exclusively through Über Desi, in a mailbag format.
img: via SI
Aditi is one of the top sportswriters in the business. She covers Rutgers sports for The Bergen Record. Aditi also writes for Sports Illustrated. Her SI column often covers the human angle of athletes, a rarity in a statistics-driven sports business. Just to give you an idea of her versatility, her stories cover both male and females athletes, pros and amateurs, in football, basketball, baseball and even the Olympics. Aditi can talk about the daily practice schedule of the Rutgers football team or explain the phenomenon of granny basketball leagues or wax eloquent on boxing great Muhammad Ali with the same ease.
Here’s another fact, Aditi is one of only 65 journalists in the nation, who voted in the AP polls over previous seasons to decide the college football national champions every year.
My teaser on the Über Desi Facebook group already drew a couple of questions. Submit your questions until Tuesday (September 2nd) evening for Aditi by posting them in the comments section below or emailing them to me: santosh[at]uberdesi[dot]com. Don’t forget to leave your name (imaginary is ok), location and/or website URL.
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