It may no longer be the "National Pastime" (in terms of numbers of spectators), but baseball is still my favorite sport. The rules are simpler than for football, but the action is more varied than in basketball. My favorite NL team is the Dodgers, although I have a grudging admiration for the Colorado Rockies and Arizona Diamondbacks because they developed so quickly as expansion teams. As for the AL, I grew up in northern Ohio, so I was a Cleveland Indians fan long before it became fashionable. Too bad they didn't win the World Series in '95, and they came oh so close in '97. Well, there's always next year.
I'm not watching as much pro football these days, since both the Raiders and the Rams have left Los Angeles. (However, the 1998 Super Bowl was a great game!) College football doesn't interest me much, except when UCLA is playing: they did well in '97, but those first two losses kept them out of the national championship picture (and then in '98, the last two). Oh, well: golf, anyone?
(I watch ESPN a lot on cable TV. You can also find ESPNet on the Web.)
My son likes video games. We got him a Nintendo 64 system for Christmas '96, and both he and I spent most of January trying to solve the Mario 64 game. (I've always liked the Mario Bros. games better than any other video game, and this 3D version is no exception.) We finally needed some help to get the last of the 120 stars. Well, isn't that what the Web is for?
As a game-player and a computer programmer, I enjoy the elegance of John Conway's game of Life (which is not really a game so much as a rule-based pattern generator). If your browser supports Javascript, you can see a real-time demo; note how a simple pattern can quickly become complex.