Five.
- What sport do you most enjoy watching on television (or tolerate most)?
I can tolerate most any sport except for golf, baseball, or football. I love watching the Olympics, especially the soccer, swimming, gymnastics, archery, or any of the winter sports.
- If you could be really, really good at one sport (we’re talking world elite here), what would it be?
Probably soccer. I would have loved to have been truly great.
- Have you ever been active in some form of sports?
Yeah. You could never tell it now by looking at me, but I earned quite a few varsity letters back in my day. (Now that I’m 30, I have to work in phrases like ‘back in my day.’)
- Would you rather be a computer geek or a sports geek?
Um, both?
I was captain of the swim and tennis teams as well as vice president of the science club. I think I covered both geekdoms. (Our tennis time sucked, our swim team was average, our soccer team was good, but the science team went to nationals. So there.)
- What teams do you cheer for?
I don’t really cheer so much as begrudgingly and occasionally check the sports scores on the web. Back in the day, I rooted for Duke (even while an undergraduate at Carolina–yeah, I live dangerously) and the Pistons (Isiah Thomas). When Chris Mullin was with the Warriors, I sort of cheered for them for a while, but I couldn’t bring myself to pull for the Pacers. Or the Warriors without Mullin. I never really followed (or cared) about football. Baseball–same deal, only with much less of the caring.