Do you remember when the sports landscape throughout \the World was shutdown due to the invasion of the Covid-19 virus? How sports are a huge factor in everyday life for many people? Sports are the escape from everyday life, from family problems, or the daily grind of the job. Many people lost their jobs and could not draw their attention to a three hour match-up that involved one of their teams. These teams, as a fan you get invested in them. Like having another kid in the household. You want to know what is going on with them on a daily basis. Some sports are preferred over hanging out with your loved ones. For lonely people, sports is what they need and the only thing they have. Innocent citizens in Russia will be getting cranky when their sports are taken away due to their sociopath leader, Vladimir Putin, and his invasion of the innocent country of Ukraine.

The most popular sport in the entire world is soccer. March 24, 2022 starts the UEFA World Cup qualifying schedule. World Cup is a big deal when it comes to soccer. Russia would face Poland. Sweden would face the Czech Republic. Then on March 29, 2022, the winners of each match-up on the 24th would face each other. The only problem is Poland, Sweden, and the Czech Republic have refused to play Russia. At home or even on a neutral field. No way any of these countries want to fly into Vladimir Putin’s backyard. Cooler heads prevailed in the think tanks of these international leagues. Yesterday, FIFA-UEFA will ban Russian teams from the games this March. Maybe the Russian people, if they are allowed to watch the games on their television, could tune in and watch the Ukraine team. The Ukraine team made the quarter finals of Euro 2020. The Ukraine this year has finished 2nd in the World Cup qualification round. Ukraine had two match-ups with France, the World Champions. Soccer experts say the Ukraine could make it to Qator in 2022.

What about the Russian athletes that play outside of the country for other leagues? The NHL National Hockey League was considering Russia hosting some games. NHL now has come out and cut ties with any future plans involving their league in the backyard of the next Hitler. What about the Russian players and their families after the season? Superstar Alex Ovechkin of the Washington Capitals is in a tough spot helping Vladimir Putin in his campaign in 2017. Ovechin wants peace, but people might not care for him knowing that. The Penguins have Eugeni Malkin and former Blackhawk, Artemi Panarin. I still question the Blackhawks getting rid of Panarin. Do all these guys now have a target on their back? War brings out total dirt bags even if they are not on the bad side of things. People might want to relieve their stress & anger on a Russian individual. I know citizens in Russia protested the Big Boob, Putin, for invading a country. Those protesters can easily get 20 years of prison time speaking up against the weasel-eyed turd in charge over there. If you’re a hockey fan and you watch the NHL to see your countrymen play or follow a team, now you might not be able to because of the Invasion.

How will the invasion of Ukraine affect individual sports like tennis? Daniil Medvedev is the number one men’s tennis star. Will Medvedev stay number one in future matches? Then Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova was scheduled in Mexico with a match-up versus a Ukraine female tennis player, Elina Svitolina. Svitolina did not want to play Pavlyuchenkova and wants athletes to be stripped away their country status from any Russians or Belarusians to make them neutral athletes. Svitolina wants tennis organizations to follow the Olympic International committee. This past Winter Olympics, Russia was known as ROC neutral where they could not use their own flag or anthem. Pavlyuchenkora does not want war as she just grew up playing tennis and trying to live out her dream. Now with the invasion, she even said it feels like being held hostage. Then Andrey Rublev took the ATP 500 event in Dubai. He wants to play tennis and live in a peaceful world. Even people who came from the old country can feel the heat of the invasion. Amanda Anisimona, an American tennis player whose father and mother came from Moscow, will probably never go back there. What if these players in individual sports go home? They might not be able to leave to play and live out their dream.

It took awhile for sports to creep back into my life during the pandemic. Re-watching classic games for several weeks got very old. Ultimate Fighting was one of the first sports to return, I remember. I was never a big fan of the cage match-up. Boxing, I always liked better. At the time, the Lumber Jack games on ESPN 999 would have been awesome. Baseball did not start until the end of July. I remember staying up late to try to watch Korean Baseball (KBO) in the wee hours of the morning to get my fix. Russia might have a better selection than they did in the pandemic, but with the invasion sports will be taken away from them because of their government. Ukraine athletes in any sport they play in will be under the microscope and have the biggest fan following in hopes that they do win. They will be inspired because of all the people that stayed in the country and fought the Red Army savages. Savages who were most likely brain washed by their moronic leader, Putin. No way Russian television will tune into the Ukraine soccer team in the World cup. Sports are irrelevant in the battle field. Sports can cope with the pain in ways. Russian people may not get the fix they would like. As their sports will be like Groundhog’s day, every day. They might call it “Wolverine Days,” at least the Red Dawn shit being put down by the Ukraine resistance against the Big Red Machine out of gasoline.