Sports are hard. Playing sports requires a lot of time and energy most of us don’t have — not to mention the social aspects of coordinating schedules with other adults. Watching sports can be brutal, too, thanks to the heartbreak of seeing your favorite team fail or the endless rabbit holes of stats, facts, and trends. Yet these pale in comparison to inventing sports. Imagine the confidence it takes to create a new sport and expect people to care. But if it can happen for curling, why not the most popular sport in the bestselling children’s series of all time?
