Baseball, good movies, college basketball, television, books that are so good that I start reading them on a plane and then finish them within a few days of the flight instead of going out drinking, popular music about six months after it's not popular anymore, stuff that rhymes, the legalization of marijuana, lower gas prices...
Nelson Mandela, Vin Scully, Maya Angelou, Will Ferrell, my great-grandparents, my fourth grade history teacher, my future wife, Bill Murray, Jimi Hendrix, Mama Cass, Bob Marley, many many more...
Like mentioned above, I'm a big fan of popular music that was popular six months earlier, so with that being said...The Killers, Bob Marley, Sublime (but I'm not a true fan, I only like the Sublime: Sublime album, not the harder stuff that real Sublime fans like), Jack Johnson, live Dave Matthews (not album stuff), Tim Reynolds, classic rock, songs from Disney movies, Eminem songs that are on the radio and get played enough that I start to hum the beat, Johnny Cash, Bob Dylan songs where he isn't mumbling too bad, a lot more...
Huge fan of comedy, huge fan of the "Ferrell-Vaughn-Carrell-Wilson brothers-Stiller" movies, movies with lots of explosions but look realistic (i.e. Bond movies and not Mission Impossible movies), Tom Cruise movies that were filmed before he went crazy, stupid child sports movies that could never be real (Rookie of the Year, Little Big League, Little Giants and The Sandlot), any sport movie other than Nascar flicks, and the list goes on and on...
Umm...my Tivo right now has a bunch of shows on it. Entourage, Weeds, Real World, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Nip/Tuck, Family Guy, 24, Scrubs, Teachers, Grey's Anatomy, My Name Is Earl, The Office, Top Chef, Real Housewives of Orange County (don't tell anyone), and a ton of old Dodger games.
Anything written by C.D. Payne (i.e. Youth in Revolt, Revolting Youth, Frisco Pigeon Mambo, etc.), books by serial authors like Grisham, Sebastian Junger, Jose Canseco (haha), and King, was a huge fan of a series of child sports books by Matt Christopher, plus the regular token books like Catcher in the Rye, Animal Farm, and almost anything that had a movie made into it that made the book look like just a waste of paper...
Peter Gammons (guy never played a day of baseball but somehow has become the ESPN baseball guru), Chris Berman (shows that even ugly fat guys can become famous), Jon Miller & Joe Morgan (only together though, apart they are like, well, just not nearly as cool), Nelson Mandela (no explanation needed), Ron Shelton (author of some of the best sports books-turned-movies like Tin Cup, Bull Durham, White Men Can't Jump and Blue Chips), Elian Gonzalez (little Cuban boy who washed up on the beach of Florida about five years ago...that kid had some spunk and I respec t him for that)