One of my biggest challenges as a parent is keeping up with the amount of money that we spend on sporting goods each year.  You see, I have three kids in sports and if you are a parent in the same situation, you know how much it can cost to buy all the equipment that they need and seem to grow out of each year.

Lately, I have been looking online to get my discount baseball equipment, but it has become harder and harder to get what I need.  I guess most people have realized that the Internet is the place to find the good deals, therefore I am competing with more people over the same equipment.

But that might change with the new cheap sporting goods store that is opening this fall.  I am just hoping that their prices are truly cheap, and not some gimmick.  I guess I will have to wait and see - it would be nice to save some money for a change.

You won’t find basing bets on a name in the list of the best horse racing tips, but it can be a fun way to bet if you don’t know any better. Racing tips are actually a big business but you really need to watch yourself when picking a horse racing tipster to help you on race day.

With access to international information so easily available on the Internet, you can get caught up in something that looks like pretty good information when it is really just a load of rubbish. Before you sign up for paid tips services, check out feedback and compare as much as you can to other services so that you will be less likely to get “taken” at the track.

A good service will offer information about the horse, track conditions, and the jockey and trainers too. Not just old or basic information but up to the minute situations for each.

With the Vancouver 2010 Olympics getting closer by the day, I have been considering going to them.  Since they will be in Canada, my home country, it might be the one chance in my life to go see the Olympics live.

I’ve already bought the time off of work for the two weeks that the Olympics will be on, and have been saving up money just for those two weeks. But, I haven’t decided if I’m going to drive there or fly.

I have made an appointment later on this week to speak with a travel agent about my options.  I am a little leery about flying, as I have never been in an airplane before.  But, I will talk to the travel agent and get her opinion on the whole thing.

Though the Olympics are still quite far away, I just can’t wait until I get to go.

The other day, when I went to buy NBA tickets, I stood in line for almost an hour and when I was just about to the front, the game sold out. That would teach me to wait until the last minute to get the tickets. Actually, it probably wouldn’t because I am a born procrastinator.

I figured that if I wanted to see the games, I needed a new method of purchasing cheap NBA tickets. I knew that I could buy tickets online at any time, but I usually ended up paying more for these and I am a quite thrifty person. Although, I would rather pay a little bit more than to continue missing the games.

I sometimes wish that I could afford to buy NBA tickets for the whole season and then not have to worry about standing in line at all. But, the reality is that I just cannot afford it and I don’t go to even half of the home games. What I really need to do is to stop procrastinating and buy my tickets earlier. And I will…tomorrow.

With so many people getting excited about going to school, you would think that I would have the same sort of fever, right?

Well, not exactly.  You see, I am looking to go to summer school this year, but I won’t be hitting the books, I’ll be hitting the greens.

That’s right, I am going to Golf School.

Specifically, I am going to attend a South Carolina Golf School where I will be able to rub shoulders with some of the pros.  I am hoping that the golf instruction that I receive there will benefit me and lead to a win in the tournament that I entered in August.

So, no books for me, no college exams, and no headaches from studying for me this summer.  Instead I will be enjoying the sun and nature each day of class.  But, there is still a few months before I go to school and I bet it will be the most enjoyable learning experience I ever have.