Is it possible large buildings and parking lots, specifically high school campuses that are under construction, can somehow be transported or teleported intact from one location to another?

Prior to the beginning of the school year, construction has been underway on the “new look” campus at Oak Harbor High School. Despite a few glitches such as a bunch of concrete having to be torn up, the project is moving right along.

Because of the construction, since about the middle of the volleyball season, just getting to the gymnasium has become a major problem for sports fans and sports reporters alike now that the main entrance to the field house is closed.

Just like it was a couple of years ago when the Coupeville High School project was going full speed ahead, some of the same problems are being encountered at the home of the purple and gold.

I’ll grant you at OHHS things are a little different, but not in a fan-friendly way.

Once again, fans have to wend their way through a fence maze.

In addition to the fence, fans also have to traverse the tennis courts, trek across the wood chips the construction crew spread to prevent people’s footwear from getting muddy and walk behind the school to the rear door to gain entry to the field house.

I’m all for fitness, but it’s about a quarter-mile hike from the parking lot.

My question is, what about handicapped parking spaces?

During the football season, you were lucky if you could find a handicapped parking space in the lot at Wildcat Memorial Stadium. Are there fewer mobility-challenged folks that attend basketball games and wrestling matches at OHHS? I don’t think so.

I took my lady to the OHHS Invitational cheerleading competition before Thanksgiving and she had a bit of a time getting to the building. Thank goodness the weather was decent and she left the walker at home and just took her cane. Even in clement weather it would have been nearly impossible to push a walker along the “wooded path” behind the school to reach the gym.

Lately the weather has taken a turn for the worse and now fans have the opportunity to get wet and cold while on their sports safaris.

My ace photographer, Jim Woolbright, was a bit grumpy at the last basketball game we went to. In addition to the walk, he had to wait and let his camera lens warm back up so his photographs wouldn’t look like he’d shot them through cheesecloth. Just another glitch that shouldn’t have to be dealt with if there were handicapped parking spaces in closer proximity.

No Arena Football

The sinking economy in the United States has struck again.

Forget about the stock and housing markets going in the tank. Forget that Christmas retail sales are down and nobody is buying cars these days.

At a recent owners’ meeting, it was decided to cancel the Arena Football League this season because of the economy being in such a sad state of affairs.

What in the heck are we going to watch on television after the National Football League season ends and before Major League Baseball begins?

Oh, sure, you can tune in the NBA or college basketball but to tell you the truth, I’m not a big fan of college or pro hoops.

What? A sports editor that doesn’t follow the collegiate to pro basketball teams? You got that right. I think Boston won the NBA title last year, but I have no idea who they played and as far as the NCCA champion, forget it!

So go ahead and sneer but please, don’t pluck my poodle or slather chipotle sauce over my chihuahua and roast her. That’s just the way things are.

Unfortunately, NFL Europe folded after last season so that bit of sports entertainment is gone as well.

So sad, the Barcelona Dragons could have carried me through until it’s time to watch the Mariners get whipped again.