The Sports Life

The Sports Life

Session 2: The Bedroom Floor

A board game, a Mead notebook, and the first time the world disappeared.

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Alan Arlt
Apr 04, 2026
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Suggested Listening: "Deep Blue Day" by Brian Eno

My childhood nights.

I remember the carpet as brown. Short pile, the kind that left grid marks on your knees if you sat too long.

Every night after dinner I spread the board across the floor. Statis Pro Basketball. A deck of cards for every player in the NBA. Magic. Bird. Jordan.

They weren’t cardboard to me.

In my mind the lights were on, the crowd was roaring, the floor was polished.

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