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Maryland's men's basketball team.

Truthfully, once covering sports became my job, I find the fan in me really disappeared. When I'm not working, most of the time I just want to get away from it.

That said, I love my job. I get paid to watch games. Kewl.

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antidan,

What sports/teams do you cover? Any teams in the 4 major professional sports?

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I work for a medium-size paper in Western Maryland and cover mostly high school sports (I'm in charge of all boys soccer, volleyball, basketball, baseball and softball stuff) and the occassional Hagerstown Suns minor league baseball game. Our staff is too small to make the trip to cover the main pro teams (Orioles, Nationals, Redskins, Ravens, Wizards, Capitals), so we just run AP stories.

When I first started I thought I would someday try to get a job for the Baltimore Sun or Washington Post with an eye on covering pro sports, but honestly, A) I really don't like big cities, I'm more of a quiet, small-town guy, and B) there's something about the "innocence" of high school sports that I find refreshing.

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The SF Giants are my favorite team overall but football is my favorite sport by far.

MLB: SF Giants (I absolutely hate the Dodgers and Yankees)
NFL: 49ers (NFC West champions next season!! You heard it here first!)
NCAA football: never had a college team till I was forced to choose one last year... so I chose Cal, the most local team that matters in college football. My college got rid of its football program the year before I got there.
NBA: not much of a fan, but I semi-follow the Warriors and Kings. I like basketball, but just don't really get into it.
NHL: Blackhawks and Sharks (was a Blackhawk fan, but then I got a local team in the early 90's, so I split my allegiance.. don't follow hockey much except for the playoffs anymore)

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OH, that's just plain disgusting.

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NFL: 49ers (NFC West champions next season!! You heard it here first!)

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And LOL, no.

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NFL: 49ers (NFC West champions next season!! You heard it here first!)

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I believe this.

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NFL: 49ers (NFC West champions next season!! You heard it here first!)

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I believe this.

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It could happen. I think the hawks are still the faves, but the 49ers will make it a contest.

For me, all Boston teams, and all Penn State teams. I despise the Yankees and Lakers for obvious reasons.

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I'm strange as I'm from Oregon, live in Pittsburgh, have a lot of family in/from the Bay area and studied in Sevilla for 5 months.

Pro:
soccer - Sevilla Fútbol Club
nfl - Steelers, Niners (though they killed me when they hired Ericson as their coach a while ago)
mlb - Giants and somewhat the Pirates, I don't follow baseball too much though until early September or so.
nhl - Penguins
NBA - Blazers. I follow college bball a lot more than the NBA. When I lived in Oregon I followed Portland more than now.

College
All sports - Oregon

I go to Pitt and I guess I sort of go for them but not really. I have been to a few games and did cheer then but otherwise I don't care at all.

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Liverpool FC