The Gipper Posted January 23, 2020 Report Share Posted January 23, 2020 Here is todays Survey. A bit different. I am going to list a variety of Sports. You tell us how much interest you have in each sport on a scale of 0-10, with 10 being of the highest interest and 0 being, well -0- interest. Start with the big ones: NFL Football: College Football: Major League Baseball NBA Basketball: College Basketball: WNBA: Women's college basketball NHL hockey MLS/Premier League/World Cup soccer Golf Tennis Winter Olympics Sports (break it down if you wish) Summer Olympics Sports (break it down if you wish) NASCAR/Indy/Formula One auto racing Boxing UFC Cricket College/High School Wrestling (real wrestling) Bowling Cue Sports: Pool/Billiards/Snooker LaCrosse Horse Racing Rugby Rodeo Surfing Ultimate Frisbee eSports Did I miss anything. (Fake wrestling is not a sport any more than ballroom dancing) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
darren15 Posted January 23, 2020 Report Share Posted January 23, 2020 6 minutes ago, The Gipper said: Here is todays Survey. A bit different. I am going to list a variety of Sports. You tell us how much interest you have in each sport on a scale of 0-10, with 10 being of the highest interest and 0 being, well -0- interest. Start with the big ones: NFL Football: 10 College Football: 8 Major League Baseball 5 NBA Basketball: 0 College Basketball: 0 WNBA: 0 Women's college basketball 0 NHL hockey 0 MLS/Premier League/World Cup soccer 10 Golf 5 Tennis 2 Winter Olympics Sports (break it down if you wish) 4 Summer Olympics Sports (break it down if you wish) 4 NASCAR/Indy/Formula One auto racing 0 Boxing 4 UFC 1 Cricket 10 College/High School Wrestling (real wrestling) 0 Bowling 0 Cue Sports: Pool/Billiards/Snooker 7 LaCrosse 0 Horse Racing 3 Rugby 5 Rodeo 0 Surfing 0 Ultimate Frisbee 0 eSports 0 Did I miss anything. (Fake wrestling is not a sport any more than ballroom dancing) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark O Posted January 23, 2020 Report Share Posted January 23, 2020 39 minutes ago, The Gipper said: NFL Football: 9 College Football: 8 Major League Baseball 9 NBA Basketball: 1 College Basketball: 5 WNBA: 0 Women's college basketball 0 NHL hockey 7 MLS/Premier League/World Cup soccer 7 Golf 8 Tennis 7 Winter Olympics Sports (break it down if you wish) 5 Summer Olympics Sports (break it down if you wish) 5 NASCAR/Indy/Formula One auto racing 7 Boxing 0 UFC 0 Cricket 0 College/High School Wrestling (real wrestling) 0 Bowling 2 Cue Sports: Pool/Billiards/Snooker 0 LaCrosse 0 Horse Racing 1 Rugby 0 Rodeo 0 Surfing 0 Ultimate Frisbee 0 eSports 0 Did I miss anything. (Fake wrestling is not a sport any more than ballroom dancing) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TexasAg1969 Posted January 23, 2020 Report Share Posted January 23, 2020 NFL Football: 10 College Football: 10 Major League Baseball: 6 NBA Basketball: 3 College Basketball: 3 WNBA: 1 Women's college basketball 6 NHL hockey 0 MLS/Premier League/World Cup soccer 0 Golf -4 Yes that is a minus Tennis 0 Winter Olympics Sports (break it down if you wish) 0 Summer Olympics Sports (break it down if you wish) 2 NASCAR/Indy/Formula One auto racing 2 Boxing 3 And 0 for all the rest except Triple Crown UFC Cricket College/High School Wrestling (real wrestling) Bowling Cue Sports: Pool/Billiards/Snooker LaCrosse Horse Racing -Triple Crown only 10 Rugby Rodeo Surfing Ultimate Frisbee eSports Did I miss anything. (Fake wrestling is not a sport any more than ballroom dancing) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Gipper Posted January 23, 2020 Author Report Share Posted January 23, 2020 1 hour ago, The Gipper said: Here is todays Survey. A bit different. I am going to list a variety of Sports. You tell us how much interest you have in each sport on a scale of 0-10, with 10 being of the highest interest and 0 being, well -0- interest. Start with the big ones: My own NFL Football: 9 I determined not to give any sport a 10, because that would seem to be a life consuming endeavour rating. College Football: 8 Major League Baseball 7 Used to be #1, 1997 and 2016 7th game extra inning losses were such downers that I avoid thinking about the game as much as I used to. NBA Basketball: 5 More acute when LeBron played here. College Basketball: 4 my interest has waned greatly in the last decade. WNBA: 0 Women's college basketball: 1 NHL hockey: 3 can be great, especially playoff hockey. MLS/Premier League/World Cup soccer: 1 Maybe if Cleveland had a team...or if the US Men were better, otherwise, no (would prefer to watch indoor soccer.....The Force/Crunch....whatever happened to that, which was huge around here?) Golf 5.......love the majors. My wife is more into it than I am. Tennis 1 snooze Winter Olympics Sports (break it down if you wish)....7 Summer Olympics Sports (break it down if you wish).....7.....yes, next to NFL Olympics is it really NASCAR/Indy/Formula One auto racing....1 Boxing.....1.....But there hasn't been anyone since Tyson worth watching. UFC.....below 0 Cricket.....0 (still don't have a clue about the rules, maybe if I knew them I might like it more. College/High School Wrestling (real wrestling)...5 (from Wadsworth,which is like the only school in 30 years to break St. Eds hegemony) Bowling...2 (used to participate, not really any more) Cue Sports: Pool/Billiards/Snooker 0 (this is like the #2-3 sport in Ireland) LaCrosse...2 Horse Racing....3 Have hit Thistledown or Northfield on Derby Day on occasion. Another sport my wife is into more than me. Rugby....1 Rodeo....1 (but I have a friend that is big into it. He is an official photographer for a lot of these events) Surfing...1 Ultimate Frisbee....1 eSports....1 (I kinda like the drone races you see on TV..which I put in this category) Did I miss anything. (Fake wrestling is not a sport any more than ballroom dancing) 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjp28 Posted January 23, 2020 Report Share Posted January 23, 2020 Let's see what 'Merica thinks about it's sports, yeah baby ! The most popular team sports in the United States are American football, baseball/softball, basketball, ice hockey, and soccer. All five of these team sports are popular with fans, are widely watched on television, have a fully professional league, are played by millions of Americans, enjoy varsity status at many Division I colleges, and are played in high schools throughout the country. Sport Favorite sport[19] TV viewing record (since 2010)1 Major professional league Participants (millions)[20] NCAA DI Teams (Men + Women) States (HS)2 American football 37% 111.9m NFL 8.9 m 249 (249M + 0W) 51 Basketball 11% 24.4m NBA 30.3 m 589 (298M + 291W) 51 Baseball/Softball 9% 40.0m MLB 29.3 m 698 (351M + 349W) 49 Soccer 7% 27.3m MLS 13.6 m 531 (205M + 332W) 51 Ice hockey 4% 27.6m NHL 3.1 m 95 (59M + 36W) 15 The following table shows additional sports that are played by over 500,000 people in the United States. Sport Participants (millions) NCAA teams (Men + Women)[38] Semi-Pro League(s) Attendance Record1 TV Viewership Record2 Olympic Sport Volleyball 10.7 m[20] 1,173 (109M + 1,064W) PVL 18,516 794,000 Yes Ultimate 4.9 m[39] 0 AUDL, PUL 3,000 150,000 No Rugby 1.4 m[40] 19 (2M + 17W) MLR 61,500 9,000,000 Yes Lacrosse 0.7 m[41] 782 (339M + 443W) NLL; MLL; PLL 52,004 476,000 Yes The 2018–19 school year was the first in 30 years to see a decrease in high school sports participation. Increases through the previous decades had been largely driven by growth in girls' participation.[85] The high school sports with the highest number of participants for 2018–19 are: Team sports[85] Football[hs 1] – 1,008,417 Basketball – 939,836 Baseball/Softball[hs 2] – 854,859 Soccer – 853,182 Volleyball – 516,371 Individual sports[85] Track & field (outdoor) – 1,093,621 Cross country – 488,640 Tennis – 348,750 Swimming & diving – 309,726 Wrestling – 268,565 And of course the big one which sports bring in the most money..... which is the lifeblood of most sports. Sports are also widely broadcast at the local level, ranging from college and professional sports down to (on some smaller stations) recreational and youth leagues.[89] Internet radio has allowed these broadcasts to reach a worldwide audience. U.S. TV sports rights Sports rights Sport National TV contract Total Revenues (Per Year) Ref National Football League (NFL) American football CBS, Fox, NBC, ESPN, DirecTV, Verizon, Amazon $56bn ($7.0bn) National Basketball Association (NBA) Basketball ABC, ESPN, TNT $24bn ($2.7bn) [92] Major League Baseball (MLB) Baseball Fox, ESPN, TBS $12bn ($1.6bn) March Madness Basketball CBS, Turner $8.8bn ($1.1bn) NASCAR Auto racing NBC, Fox $8.2bn ($820m) Olympic Games Multi-sport NBC $7.8bn ($705m) College Football Playoff American football ESPN $5.6bn ($470m) Pac-12 Conference (Pac-12) College sports Fox, ESPN $3.0bn ($250m) Big Ten Conference (Big Ten or B1G) College sports Fox, ESPN $2.6bn ($440m) [93] Big 12 Conference (Big 12) College sports Fox, ESPN $2.6bn ($200m) National Hockey League (NHL) Ice hockey NBC $2.0bn ($200m) [94] U.S. Open (golf) Golf Fox $1.1bn ($93m) FIFA World Cup Soccer Fox, Telemundo $1.0bn ($125m) English Premier League Soccer NBC $1.0bn ($167m) Southeastern Conference (SEC) College sports CBS $0.8bn ($55m) US Open (tennis) Tennis ESPN $0.8bn ($70m) Major League Soccer (MLS) Soccer Fox, ESPN, Univision $0.7bn ($90m) [95] The following table shows the major professional sports leagues, which average over 15,000 fans per game and that have a national TV contract that pays rights fees. YES, fans in seats it also reflects the number of games played. League Sport Teams National TV contract Average Attendance Total Annual Attendance Ref Major League Baseball (MLB) Baseball 30 Fox, FS1, ESPN, TBS, MLBN 28,187 68,494,752 [97] National Basketball Association (NBA) Basketball 30 ABC, ESPN, TNT, NBATV 17,857 21,964,447 [98] National Hockey League (NHL) Ice hockey 31 NBC, NBCSN, NHLN 17,500 21,525,777 [99] National Football League (NFL) American football 32 CBS, Fox, NBC, ESPN, NFLN 67,100 17,177,581 [100] Major League Soccer (MLS) Soccer 24 Fox, FS1, ESPN, Univision 21,305 8,676,109 [101] So there you go....... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Gipper Posted January 23, 2020 Author Report Share Posted January 23, 2020 Great....now how about giving us YOUR opinion. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjp28 Posted January 23, 2020 Report Share Posted January 23, 2020 Just now, The Gipper said: Great....now how about giving us YOUR opinion. Still being tabulated. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ballpeen Posted January 23, 2020 Report Share Posted January 23, 2020 2 hours ago, The Gipper said: Here is todays Survey. A bit different. I am going to list a variety of Sports. You tell us how much interest you have in each sport on a scale of 0-10, with 10 being of the highest interest and 0 being, well -0- interest. Start with the big ones: NFL Football: The Browns 10 The rest of the league maybe 3 College Football: 10 Major League Baseball 10 NBA Basketball: 4 College Basketball: 3 WNBA: 0 Women's college basketball 0 NHL hockey 8 MLS/Premier League/World Cup soccer 1 Golf 10 Tennis 2 Winter Olympics Sports (break it down if you wish) 5 Summer Olympics Sports (break it down if you wish) 4 NASCAR/Indy/Formula One auto racing 6 Boxing 1 UFC 1 Cricket 0 College/High School Wrestling (real wrestling) 0 Bowling 0 Cue Sports: Pool/Billiards/Snooker 0 Lacrosse 0 Horse Racing 2 Rugby 0 Rodeo 5 Surfing 0 Ultimate Frisbee 0 eSports 0 Did I miss anything. (Fake wrestling is not a sport any more than ballroom dancing) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Gipper Posted January 23, 2020 Author Report Share Posted January 23, 2020 If my son were doing this poll he would have a -0- on like just about everything. But, one thing your link mentioned is "Ultimate Disc League"....which is basically Frisbee football. (not called that). Be he IS into Disc Golf. And there are a lot of Disc Golf courses popping up all over the place. There are a couple of them right here within a couple of miles of where I live. That is becoming a popular recreation sport, plus there are tournaments. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ballpeen Posted January 23, 2020 Report Share Posted January 23, 2020 I will add a sport.. NCAA womens diving....10 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjp28 Posted January 23, 2020 Report Share Posted January 23, 2020 4 minutes ago, ballpeen said: I will add a sport.. NCAA womens diving....10 Or porn on your home TV and it's FREE. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Gipper Posted January 23, 2020 Author Report Share Posted January 23, 2020 1 minute ago, ballpeen said: I will add a sport.. NCAA womens diving....10 Did you have someone involved? (my daughter did swimming in HS....and she would yell at me for not putting "cheerleading" on the list, as she participated in competitive cheering for some years from like 6th to 12th grade, and she was a cheerleader for 4 years at college) I could have added a lot more sports if I had listed each Olympic sport separately: Swimming/diving/ Track and Field, archery, skiing, curling, Bobsled, etc. etc. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SdBacker80 Posted January 23, 2020 Report Share Posted January 23, 2020 3 hours ago, The Gipper said: Here is todays Survey. A bit different. I am going to list a variety of Sports. You tell us how much interest you have in each sport on a scale of 0-10, with 10 being of the highest interest and 0 being, well -0- interest. Start with the big ones: NFL Football: 10 College Football: 10 Major League Baseball 8 NBA Basketball: 3 College Basketball: 5 (NCAA tourney brings it up) WNBA: 1 Women's college basketball: 1 NHL hockey: 3 MLS/Premier League/World Cup soccer: 2 Golf: 5 (just the majors) Tennis:1 Winter Olympics Sports (break it down if you wish): 5 Summer Olympics Sports (break it down if you wish): 5 NASCAR/Indy/Formula One auto racing: - Boxing: 3 UFC: 8 Cricket: 1 College/High School Wrestling (real wrestling): 10 (collegiate wrestler, love the sport) Bowling: 1 Cue Sports: Pool/Billiards/Snooker: 2 LaCrosse: 4 Horse Racing: 10. Love me some Del Mar. gambling and non gambling holds my interest Rugby: 1 Rodeo: 4 (mildly interested in it) Surfing: 1 Ultimate Frisbee: 1 eSport: ????? Did I miss anything. (Fake wrestling is not a sport any more than ballroom dancing) thank you heck no to WWE Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ibleedbrown Posted January 24, 2020 Report Share Posted January 24, 2020 15 hours ago, The Gipper said: Here is todays Survey. A bit different. I am going to list a variety of Sports. You tell us how much interest you have in each sport on a scale of 0-10, with 10 being of the highest interest and 0 being, well -0- interest. Start with the big ones: NFL Football: 9 College Football:4 Major League Baseball 10 NBA Basketball: 1 College Basketball: 2 WNBA:1 Women's college basketball 1 NHL hockey 0 MLS/Premier League/World Cup soccer 4 Golf 0, but l did work at a golf course and had a good ol’ time racing the carts around. Back when they were gas powered they had a little more oomph. Tennis 1 Winter Olympics Sports (break it down if you wish) 7 Summer Olympics Sports (break it down if you wish) 7 NASCAR/Indy/Formula One auto racing 1 Boxing 0 UFC 0 Cricket 1, it intrigues me, but l don’t quite follow what’s going on. College/High School Wrestling (real wrestling) 0 Bowling 1 Cue Sports: Pool/Billiards/Snooker 6, l do like playing the occasional game of pool. LaCrosse 3 Horse Racing 3 Rugby 2 Rodeo 1 Surfing 5 Ultimate Frisbee 1 eSports 1 Did I miss anything. (Fake wrestling is not a sport any more than ballroom dancing) Women’s fastpitch softball is fun. Similar to baseball but has its own nuances. Everything is closer together, base paths, and rubber to mound, so the action is fast. Also, there are more types of pitches in softball than in baseball, like rise balls and drop curves to go with fastballs and change ups and such. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hoorta Posted January 24, 2020 Report Share Posted January 24, 2020 16 hours ago, The Gipper said: Here is todays Survey. A bit different. I am going to list a variety of Sports. You tell us how much interest you have in each sport on a scale of 0-10, with 10 being of the highest interest and 0 being, well -0- interest. Start with the big ones: NFL Football: 9.5 College Football: 8 Major League Baseball 2 NBA Basketball: 5 higher when the Cavs were decent College Basketball: 6 this year- Dayton is in the top 10 for the first time in over 50 years WNBA: 0 Women's college basketball 0 NHL hockey 5 MLS/Premier League/World Cup soccer 3, World Cup 7 Golf 2 Tennis 5 Winter Olympics Sports (break it down if you wish) 5 Summer Olympics Sports (break it down if you wish) 5 NASCAR/Indy/Formula One auto racing 1 Boxing 1 UFC 0 Cricket 0 College/High School Wrestling (real wrestling) 0 Bowling 1 Cue Sports: Pool/Billiards/Snooker 0 LaCrosse 0 Horse Racing 3 Triple Crown only Rugby 0 Rodeo 0 Surfing o Ultimate Frisbee 0 eSports 0 Did I miss anything. (Fake wrestling is not a sport any more than ballroom dancing) X Games, Winter\ Summer 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Gipper Posted January 24, 2020 Author Report Share Posted January 24, 2020 eSport: ????? Apparently my college, Akron U, has one of the most prominent eSports programs in the nation, even giving scholarships for it: https://esportsinsider.com/2018/10/university-of-akron-esports-facility/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TexasAg1969 Posted January 24, 2020 Report Share Posted January 24, 2020 9 hours ago, Ibleedbrown said: Women’s fastpitch softball is fun. Similar to baseball but has its own nuances. Everything is closer together, base paths, and rubber to mound, so the action is fast. Also, there are more types of pitches in softball than in baseball, like rise balls and drop curves to go with fastballs and change ups and such. One of the greatest pitcher - hitter duels I ever saw was between UT-Austin's 6'2" lefty and all-time great Cat Osterman and Megan Gibson one of A&M's greatest ever pitcher/hitters. Cat had two strikes on her and Megan, being the pitcher that she was, knew that Cat's best strikeout pitch would appear to be a fastball that was coming right down the middle, but would tail into an inside curve dipping out of the strike zone about 6 inches off the ground near the ankles. As the pitch came in Megan shifted her left foot towards 3rd base and golfed the ball on a line drive over the right field fence for a 3 run homer. As soon as Cat saw where it was going she looked back at her catcher and Megan tossing her bat away and mouthed the word, "Wow!" No one had ever done that to her strikeout pitch before that night. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Gipper Posted January 24, 2020 Author Report Share Posted January 24, 2020 When I was growing up, my next door neighbor, who later became Chief of Police in Barberton, was a fastpitch softball pitcher. He could hurl a softball, underhand, at close to 90 MPH. He was later killed in a motorcycle accident. This was in the 80s. Here he was, a Chief of Police, and he was not wearing a helmet riding his motorbike. He had this unusual deal that when he pitched the ball, underhand remember, he would slap the side of his leg with the hand that held the ball in. Not sure why that was done, but he still threw the thing fast as hell. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BrownsnMopar Posted January 24, 2020 Report Share Posted January 24, 2020 On 1/23/2020 at 9:48 AM, The Gipper said: Here is todays Survey. A bit different. I am going to list a variety of Sports. You tell us how much interest you have in each sport on a scale of 0-10, with 10 being of the highest interest and 0 being, well -0- interest. Start with the big ones: NFL Football: 10 College Football: 10 Major League Baseball 8 NBA Basketball: 2 College Basketball: 2 WNBA: 0 Women's college basketball 0 NHL hockey 3 MLS/Premier League/World Cup soccer 0 Golf. 5 Tennis 0 Winter Olympics Sports (break it down if you wish) 8 Summer Olympics Sports (break it down if you wish) 8 NASCAR/Indy/Formula One auto racing 3 Boxing 3 UFC 3 Cricket 0 College/High School Wrestling (real wrestling) 2 Bowling 2 Cue Sports: Pool/Billiards/Snooker 2 LaCrosse 0 Horse Racing 0 Rugby 2 Rodeo 0 Surfing 0 Ultimate Frisbee 0 eSports 0 Did I miss anything. (Fake wrestling is not a sport any more than ballroom dancing) LOL right Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjp28 Posted January 24, 2020 Report Share Posted January 24, 2020 My voting on a 10 point must system being 10 is my must watch and -0- being I would never watch. NFL Football:. 9 being that I never miss a BROWNS game College Football:. 10 my favorite sport Major League Baseball 8 since I'm retired I watch almost all of the INDIANS games NBA Basketball: 0 since LBJ left CLE College Basketball: 9 for MARCH MADNESS WNBA: 0 women play basketball? Women's college basketball 0 NHL hockey. 3 some Pittsburgh Penguins MLS/Premier League/World Cup soccer 0 boring Golf. 1 used to watch Arnie and Jack Tennis 0 Winter Olympics Sports (break it down if you wish). 9. love it. Summer Olympics Sports (break it down if you wish) 9 love it. NASCAR/Indy/Formula One auto racing. 1 rather watch the cars in Walmart's parking lot Boxing 4 maybe not what it used to be. UFC 0 Cricket 0 College/High School Wrestling (real wrestling) 0 Bowling 1 used to watch a few decades ago Cue Sports: Pool/Billiards/Snooker 0 LaCrosse 0 Horse Racing 2, maybe the Derby. Rugby 1 Rodeo 0 Surfing 3 mainly for the scenery. Ultimate Frisbee 0 really? eSports 0 the downfall of the American youth and our country. Did I miss anything. (Fake wrestling is not a sport any more than ballroom dancing) Wasting time doing stupid stuff online like filling out surveys and polls? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hoorta Posted January 24, 2020 Report Share Posted January 24, 2020 On 1/23/2020 at 12:29 PM, The Gipper said: Did you have someone involved? (my daughter did swimming in HS....and she would yell at me for not putting "cheerleading" on the list, as she participated in competitive cheering for some years from like 6th to 12th grade, and she was a cheerleader for 4 years at college) I could have added a lot more sports if I had listed each Olympic sport separately: Swimming/diving/ Track and Field, archery, skiing, curling, Bobsled, etc. etc. Yeah, it wouldn't affect me, but if you broke it down into sub categories, the wife is very interested in swimming (former competitive swimmer) and figure skating. E-sports? How in the world can you call that a sport? Misnomer, may as well call World Championship Poker, or chess a "sport". To my mind a sport has to involve a certain minimal amount of physical activity, and playing on a computer doesn't rate. Call it an E-GAME and I'm good with it. Adding on to mjp's list not to be sexist, but there's women's lacrosse and ice hockey. I did forget one sport of mine that I watch once a year - professional men's cycling. I'll watch hours of the Tour de France every year. If you ride a lot, it's mind boggling how good those guys are. Average schmucks couldn't keep up with them for 5 minutes. Even on the last day of the Tour in the first hour of the ride when they're just screwing around drinking champagne, you'd have to be at least a Class A rider (average 18 mph+ over 100 miles) to be able to keep up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Gipper Posted January 24, 2020 Author Report Share Posted January 24, 2020 2 hours ago, hoorta said: Yeah, it wouldn't affect me, but if you broke it down into sub categories, the wife is very interested in swimming (former competitive swimmer) and figure skating. E-sports? How in the world can you call that a sport? Misnomer, may as well call World Championship Poker, or chess a "sport". To my mind a sport has to involve a certain minimal amount of physical activity, and playing on a computer doesn't rate. Call it an E-GAME and I'm good with it. I think that is fair....to call it a game, not a sport. I put it on here because it was a category in wiki, plus I knew that Akron U had a top program going there. If physical activity though were all that a sport required, then ballroom or ballet dancing would be considered sports, as those take a ton of physical output. Adding on to mjp's list not to be sexist, but there's women's lacrosse and ice hockey. Yea, admittedly I left off a lot of women's sports. Ergo the "what did I miss" question. I did forget one sport of mine that I watch once a year - professional men's cycling. I'll watch hours of the Tour de France every year. If you ride a lot, it's mind boggling how good those guys are. Average schmucks couldn't keep up with them for 5 minutes. Even on the last day of the Tour in the first hour of the ride when they're just screwing around drinking champagne, you'd have to be at least a Class A rider (average 18 mph+ over 100 miles) to be able to keep up. I basically included the cycling in with Olympics sports, as who really gives a rat's ass about it other than at the Olympics, and some peak in to the Tour de France. I guess there is also a big Tour of California in this country. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Momszer Posted January 24, 2020 Report Share Posted January 24, 2020 NFL Football: 10 College Football: 10 Major League Baseball 7 NBA Basketball: 5 College Basketball: Infinity and Beyond GO UD FLYERS!!! WNBA: 1 Women's college basketball 2 NHL hockey 3 MLS/Premier League/World Cup soccer 1 Golf 5 Tennis 3 Winter Olympics Sports (break it down if you wish) 9 Summer Olympics Sports (break it down if you wish) 10 NASCAR/Indy/Formula One auto racing 7 Boxing 1 UFC 5 Cricket 0 College/High School Wrestling (real wrestling) 0 Bowling 2 Cue Sports: Pool/Billiards/Snooker 0 LaCrosse 2 Horse Racing 5 Rugby 3 Rodeo 0 Surfing 0 Ultimate Frisbee 0 eSports 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ibleedbrown Posted January 24, 2020 Report Share Posted January 24, 2020 5 hours ago, The Gipper said: When I was growing up, my next door neighbor, who later became Chief of Police in Barberton, was a fastpitch softball pitcher. He could hurl a softball, underhand, at close to 90 MPH. He was later killed in a motorcycle accident. This was in the 80s. Here he was, a Chief of Police, and he was not wearing a helmet riding his motorbike. He had this unusual deal that when he pitched the ball, underhand remember, he would slap the side of his leg with the hand that held the ball in. Not sure why that was done, but he still threw the thing fast as hell. I knew it was a men’s sport back in the day. 90 mph seems high. Like world record high. The best of the best of the girls tops out at around 70. The leg slap is likely a mechanism to find the release point for the pitch. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Gipper Posted January 24, 2020 Author Report Share Posted January 24, 2020 42 minutes ago, Ibleedbrown said: I knew it was a men’s sport back in the day. 90 mph seems high. Like world record high. The best of the best of the girls tops out at around 70. The leg slap is likely a mechanism to find the release point for the pitch. He was not a girl but a grown man. But 90 is likely high....but he was very fast. And thanks for the tip on the leg slap. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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