Sports, because of the scarcity of games, each individual game means more than it would in a season of regularlength, potentially making the experience more exciting for the hockey fan.
You will benefit more from doing regular gentle exercise for a good length of time, than exercising very vigorously for a short length of time or infrequently, they say.
In his Paris Review interview, Tom Wolfe refers to Zola at length, saying that regular deadlines can be good for fiction writers, because it forces them to create semi-believable plots and characters without being excessively fussy.