Perhaps the band Talking Heads said it best. In fact, they predicted it when they wrote the following lyric: "You may ask yourself, well, how did I get here?"

Cards on the table - author Tim Forbes is not quite right. Want proof? How else could you explain him spending a full year of his life attending 100 uniquely different sporting events - involving 50 separate sports?

"But why?" you may ask. Well, here's his story, and apparently he's sticking to it....

Tim is a Game Junkie. He played sports endlessly as a kid, and loved sports all his life. It's the world he belonged in. At the age of 40, though, he found himself like many Americans: painfully unsatisfied in an uninspiring corporate job, but making too much money to walk away. Then, one momentous day, his wife and he struck a deal - but not just any deal. This was The Deal, which would eventually lead Tim to a cherished career in the world of sports.

Happy ending, right? Wrong.

Years later, having carved out a place in his new industry, Tim was surprised when a friend asked, "Do you still love sports?" What shocked him to his core, though, was that he didn't know the answer. Of course he still loved sports! Didn't he? After all, hadn't he walked away from a perk-filled Corporate American life to start over at the bottom - as perhaps the oldest unpaid intern in PGA Tour history? Was it possible it had all been for nothing? This was a question that downright had to be answered.

It began with a single basketball game, and the next thing he knew, Tim was charting a course to attend athletic events involving everything from A (archery) to...well, Y (yachting). Hey, you try finding a sport that starts with the letter Z.