CNN has lost all credibility

[Abby Normal]

My favorites in order:

Baseball (played from the time I was four until I was forty four, coaching now)
Boxing (boxed in my youth, wife won't let me get back into it)
NFL (but I'll never go to pro game. rather watch on TV to avoid the human degradation the games have become)
College Basketball (tourney is my favorite annual sports event, I think)
College Football
Olympic Weightlifting (snatch, clean and jerk - competed in the sport from my late twenties to mid-thirties, love it....i'll watch when it's on)
Women's volleyball (I have my reasons)

did you see that American Brian Shaw won his fourth WSM competition?
What a beast-and he played college Basketball!?!
Hes chasing Mariusz Pudzianowski who has five titles. Pudzian has my total respect as he also competes and is pretty successful at MMA, my favorite sport.

[Patrick S]

My favorites in order:

Baseball (played from the time I was four until I was forty four, coaching now)
Boxing (boxed in my youth, wife won't let me get back into it)
NFL (but I'll never go to pro game. rather watch on TV to avoid the human degradation the games have become)
College Basketball (tourney is my favorite annual sports event, I think)
College Football
Olympic Weightlifting (snatch, clean and jerk - competed in the sport from my late twenties to mid-thirties, love it....i'll watch when it's on)
Women's volleyball (I have my reasons)

[Steadmund Brand]

Actually they do.. it is the AFL Australian Football League.. or just Footy.. I am the biggest Footy fan in America... just don't ask GUT... he like to make fun of my team GO BRISBANE LIONS!!!


Steadmund Brand

[Abby Normal]

Game? This wasn't meant to be a game. NEVER.!!!! ( I love Rollerball!!!)

My Sports in order are

Boxing (spent a good part of my life working in boxing one way or another)
Baseball
Aussie Rules Football
College Basketball
NFL Football
Hockey (use to be my #2..but the game has changed way to much in the last 15 years)
then a mix of Olympic events ( summer more so than winter)

Steadmund Brand

IMHO Rollerball was the best of the dystopian future/apocalyptic movie genre(soylent Green, Omega man, logans run etc.) of the seventies.

Question:
What do the call it in Australia? surely not Australian rules football?

[Steadmund Brand]

for me favorites in order:

MMA-UFC
Pro Football-NFL
College Basketball
college Lacrosse-now theres an American original sport!
College football
World cup soccer
Olympics

I love baseball, but mainly when I'm at the park enjoying a cold one on a hot day!!!

Hockey-but only when the caps finally don't choke and make it deep into the playoffs. Hockey is probably the most intense game out there-especially live. Its like freaken Rollerball watching it live(if you've ever seen the movie with James Cahn-youll know what I mean!)

Game? This wasn't meant to be a game. NEVER.!!!! ( I love Rollerball!!!)

My Sports in order are

Boxing (spent a good part of my life working in boxing one way or another)
Baseball
Aussie Rules Football
College Basketball
NFL Football
Hockey (use to be my #2..but the game has changed way to much in the last 15 years)
then a mix of Olympic events ( summer more so than winter)

Steadmund Brand

[Abby Normal]

I am a baseball junky, but I believe if you don't grow up with it, you will never be a fan, it isn't a sport you pick up on later....to an outsider it moves to slow and it is VERY confusing (so many rules and little things that dont make sense to people who don't know the game)
Soccer (football) is getting Huge in the states, where I live we have 2 soccer bars (that are always packed) and even yesterday, I stopped in my cigar lounge for a smoke and to watch the Yankees game....and they put baseball on the small TV and the main TV was soccer....and that was what more people were watching...the NHL playoffs didn't even get put on....was so weird....things have changed fast....I personally find soccer quite boring (overall) but LOVE watching highlights.....the flopping just ruins it for me.
Darts is great to watch....so fast and sucks ya right in 180!!!!!..same thing with bowling (don't laugh) you happen to flip on and see someone with several strikes in a row you get drawn in....until you realize you are watching bowling hahaha.

Steadmund Brand

for me favorites in order:

MMA-UFC
Pro Football-NFL
College Basketball
college Lacrosse-now theres an American original sport!
College football
World cup soccer
Olympics

I love baseball, but mainly when I'm at the park enjoying a cold one on a hot day!!!

Hockey-but only when the caps finally don't choke and make it deep into the playoffs. Hockey is probably the most intense game out there-especially live. Its like freaken Rollerball watching it live(if you've ever seen the movie with James Cahn-youll know what I mean!)

[Steadmund Brand]

I am a baseball junky, but I believe if you don't grow up with it, you will never be a fan, it isn't a sport you pick up on later....to an outsider it moves to slow and it is VERY confusing (so many rules and little things that dont make sense to people who don't know the game)
Soccer (football) is getting Huge in the states, where I live we have 2 soccer bars (that are always packed) and even yesterday, I stopped in my cigar lounge for a smoke and to watch the Yankees game....and they put baseball on the small TV and the main TV was soccer....and that was what more people were watching...the NHL playoffs didn't even get put on....was so weird....things have changed fast....I personally find soccer quite boring (overall) but LOVE watching highlights.....the flopping just ruins it for me.
Darts is great to watch....so fast and sucks ya right in 180!!!!!..same thing with bowling (don't laugh) you happen to flip on and see someone with several strikes in a row you get drawn in....until you realize you are watching bowling hahaha.

Steadmund Brand

[Wickerman]

The worst thing about cricket test matches is that they can still end up in a draw. After five days, you'd think they'd be able to settle it one way or another!

PS: I'm a big cricket fan, by the way.

To my mind, cricket is the only game that is worse than baseball , and that's saying something.
I was forced to play cricket at school, but I've never sat through a full match in my life - never will either. Though I have only seen two baseball games, considering I live in Canada that must be a feat, but there won't be a third.

I'm a soccer fan, I don't care who's playing, I'll watch it anyway.
It's taken some years to catch on in N/America, but it's catching on in leaps and bounds now. Lets face it, it's the only true World game.

[Wickerman]

Mind you, one of my favourite sports at the moment is darts. Now there's a face-paced game!

Oh how I loved that game all through my younger years. I played darts at work, at home, and at the pub.
Yeh, great game.
It improves your math skills too...

[Abby Normal]

But at least with cricket they play all that time with Gridiron it's 10 secs play, a ten minute break, 2 secs play, 10 minutes break.

Plenty of time in between plays to concentrate on your drink though without missing anything.

[Sam Flynn]

But at least with cricket they play all that time with Gridiron it's 10 secs play, a ten minute break, 2 secs play, 10 minutes break.

The worst thing about cricket test matches is that they can still end up in a draw. After five days, you'd think they'd be able to settle it one way or another!

PS: I'm a big cricket fan, by the way.

[GUT]

To be fair, 4 hours is quite a bit less than the 5 days it could potentially take to complete a test match!

Mind you, one of my favourite sports at the moment is darts. Now there's a face-paced game!

But at least with cricket they play all that time with Gridiron it's 10 secs play, a ten minute break, 2 secs play, 10 minutes break.

[John G]

And the strange way they play football, strewth four hours to play a one hour game.

I'm not sure about in England but when I was growing up netball was "Girl's Basketball" (official title) in Australia.

To be fair, 4 hours is quite a bit less than the 5 days it could potentially take to complete a test match!

Mind you, one of my favourite sports at the moment is darts. Now there's a face-paced game!

[Abby Normal]

I'm not so sure. The Brits dispensed with their jousting armour centuries ago, then along came American Football and put it all back again

LOL! Nice

[Sam Flynn]

And Your sports haven't evolved from the Middle Ages either! Lol

I'm not so sure. The Brits dispensed with their jousting armour centuries ago, then along came American Football and put it all back again