Conference quark::mennotes-v1

    
    	There is a sports file where you may get a better statisical(sp)
    ave. on the more popular sports....but hey, if the moderator don't
    mind, why should I?
    
    Todd
    
    BTW: the file's on RUBY::SPORTS

    softball (participant)
    skiing (part.)
    golf (part.)
    bowling (part.)
    baseball (spectator, love those Mets, specifically Dwight Goodin)
    
    Spence

    
    Cricket
    Soccer
    Snooker
    Darts
    :-)

    
    re .1  I'm not interested in SPORTS.  The people who read this
    conference are, might we say, a different breed from sports.  More
    international, more individualistic.  So I thought it would be
    interesting for us to see the worldwide prospective.
    
    re .2 Yea, its ok.  But tell us, why watch? :-)
    
    Any of our soon_to_be_former_America_Cup_holders want to explain
    Australian football. I've never heard of it 'till now.
    

    Snooker
    Cricket
    Golf
    Moderator baiting
    

    Polo
    Car Racing
    Horse Racing
    Volleyball
    Darts

    
    Not much of a sports watcher, but:
    
    	1) Football
    	2) Hockey
    	3) Basketball
    	4) Racquetball
    	5) Swimming (the only one I'm good at)
    
    Note that this is in terms of participation, or watching teams of
    professionals.  Quite frequently, football and hockey degenerate
    into televised circuses.
    
    DFW

    	
    		Swimming
    		Volleyball
    		Foosball (yes, that's an 's' not a 't')
    		Canoeing
    		Swimming
    
    Bahama Mama

    1) [target] shooting
    2) rally driving
    3) Tae Kwon Do
    4) Billiards
    5) Darts
    
    /. Ian .\

#1!!!	Baseball/Softball
	NFL Football
	Hockey (esp. college, less time wasted on fights)
	NBA Basketball
	Bowling, golf, volleyball, air hockey:-)... (random 
		participatory sports)
	
	Mike

    
    
    		Football (NFL down & dirty)
    		Volleyball
    		Golf
    		X-country Skiing
    		Softball
    

Bicycling
Eating Ice Cream
Canoeing
Volleyball, especially at the beach
X-C Skiing
Soaking up the rays
Swimming

Like to participate (I realize that a couple of the above are not
too active, but they are participatory!).

Am not much of a spectator.

And am fond of saying: Golf is a great game if you're over 70.
		(once nearly lost my job for saying it)

	~Mike

    Football, of course....are there any other sports?  8)
    
    				Phil
    

    [set mode SARCASM on]
    
� ... are there any other sports?  8)

    I once  had  an  English master who insisted (and the Oxford English 
    Dictionary agreed with him) that leisure  activities  involving  the 
    use of one or more balls (of any shape) are specifically NOT sports, 
    they are games.  Hence horse racing is the  Sport  of  Kings, whilst 
    Rugby is a game suitable to be played by gentlemen...
    
    /. Ian .\

    .18 - Cute, but I don't buy it.
    
    FOOTBALL
    Basketball
    Baseball
    Olympics
    America's Cup Racing
    

(participant)	Racquetball !!
		Volleyball !
		Bowling
		Frisbee
		Tennis
		Baseball (ya can hit farther than Softball)
(pseudo-sports)	Chess ?? (i love it, but are it sports??)
		Bridge ?? (ditto1)
		Poker ?? (ditto2)
		Billiards ? (some physical activity involved)
		
(watching)	Basketball !
		Hockey !
		Baseball (too slow, but goes good with beer)
		Soccer
		Football

	Participate in		Badminton
				Tennis
				Swimming (as recreation)

	Really enjoy watching	Rugby Union Football
				Track Athletics
				Boxing (sometimes makes me sick though)
				Blue movies.

Richard.								

    
    Sports to play:
    		Sailboat racing
                Softball
    		Jogging
    
    Sports to watch:
    		Football
    		Baseball 
    		Track and Field
                Women's gymnastics  :^)
    
    Sports that cause me to turn off the TV:
    		Bowling
    		golf zzzzzz....
                                       =Ralph=

    
    Interesting.  So far, softball/baseball, football, and volleyball
    are the top sports.  You hardly see volleyball mentioned in daily
    sport pages and only at some wierd hour of the morning on ESPN!
    
    Well, rounding out the top is swimming, skiing (winter and summer),
    canoeing and cricket.  Now, how often do we see canoeing and cricket
    on the tube?

    What we need is a *real* international sport.  Too bad we can't
    seem to find one.
    
    Thanks for the responses....
    
    GOG
    
    

>    What we need is a *real* international sport.  Too bad we can't
>    seem to find one.

	Is not swimming, atheletics, tennis, football (soccer), and tiddly 
	winks international?

Richard.   

ha ha ha...

    
    
    Motorcycling
    Weight Lifting
    Soccer
    Swimming
    One arm curling 
    SEX!

    During  one  of  last year's Grand Prix the commentator remarked (it 
    was during the World Series) the Formula One  Motor  Racing  is  the 
    ONLY  sport  that  has  a  TRUE World Series (in the sense that each 
    event in the series takes place in a different country, with one  or 
    two exceptions that have two Grand Prix. This was of course biassed: 
    there is one other sport that has a true World Series: Skiing.
    
    /. Ian .\

1. Football (with a sphere and two left feet, but let's not start all that
	again. Incidentally, could somebody explain to me why the northern and
	Scottish types call it "in goals" instead of "in goal"? The old one 
	about Scottish goalkeepers again perhaps?)
2. Formula 1 motor racing.
3. Card games of varying types.
4. Cricket.
5. Misbehaving.
.
.
.
n. Gaelic football (and its close relative hurling). No idea about the rules,
but _brilliant_ to watch. 

Tarik.

>    there is one other sport that has a true World Series: Skiing.
    
	Water Skiing of Snow Skiing?

Richard.

Re .33:

In the days before they invented goal nets (and before the  game  caught 
on in the genteel south :-) the goalie protected a strip of line between 
two short poles, or more likely a pile of cast off jerseys.  These posts 
or  poles  were  "the  goals".  Then when the game got civilised and the 
target became a singular  structure,  the  Saturday  Afternoon  Warriors 
"down South" called it "the goal"

re  Gaelic  football: what rules? (I was told once that the only rule is 
you can't kill a player unless he has possesion of the ball :-). For the 
uninitiated  Gaelic  Football  bears the same relationship to games like 
"gridiron" Football, that Ninjitsu bears to WWF Wrestling.

Re .34: [snow] skiing

re general :-) follows ... [its boring]



Some games have several different variants with  qualifiers  (like  snow 
skiing and water skiing). In different countries or cultures a different 
one becomes default.  Thus to me "skiing" means snow  skiing  (the water 
off  the  coast  of Britain is so cold even in Summer that a wet suit is 
advisable for the other  kind).    Football  to  me  (and  I  think most 
Europeans)  means  "soccer"  (which  of  course  is  a  crude linguistic 
corruption of "Association" as in "Association  Football  -  the  game's 
proper name) In the USA "Football" is the gridiron game. Which brings me 
to a point: shortly after arriving in New England I  got  involved  in a 
conversation with some people and it drifted, as things will, eventually 
to the point were they were talking  about  "field  hockey",  this  just 
after  discussing "hockey".  Wishing to learn, when I got home I dug out 
an encyclopaedia, but couldn't find anything about "field" hockey.  Just 
two  variants  of  this game were listed: "hockey", a game played by two 
teams, often of women, on grass, and "Ice Hockey" a  game  derived  from 
hockey in Canada, involving playing the game on ice (makes sense).  This 
then gave me the explanation: the common form of the game around here is 
[ice]  hockey,  so  that  becomes  the  default,  and  when  hockey  was 
introduced, apparantly someone had to invent a name for it to avoid  its 
confusion with ice hockey by the semantically lazy.

0. Sex
 1. Swimming
  2. Hiking/Mountain Climbing
   3. Bicycling
    4. Aerobic Weight Lifting
     5. Aerobic Weight Dropping
      6. Chasing the Cats Around the House

I used to be into basketball until an opposing team tromped on my wrist.  (No
 fouls get called in street basketball, of course.)  I can enjoy watching a
  basketball game if either the Celtics or the Harlem Globetrotters are playing.
   <_Jym_>

    Now that would be interesting <_jym_>. The Celtics vs the
    Globetrotters. 8-)
    
    Bob Mc
    

    Running the 12k
    Bicycling the Davis DC
    Sailing my Mutineer
    Lap swim
    PingPong
    Driving real fast on Stevens Canyon Road
    
    Watching the Santa Cruz bicycle races
    Watching the Scottish games in Marin
    
    Baiting sanctimonius people
    
    Watching womens field hockey

  Skiing (downhill and cross country)
  Hiking/Climbing Mountains
  Gymnastics
  Skating
  Tennis
  
  
  

    
    so, the "world-wide" sports are: (in no particular order)
    
    		. car/formula-1 racing
    		. skiing (snow)
    		. bicycling
    		. skating      ? most countries in the northern hemisphere
    				 have an ice hockey team, right?
    		. gymnastics
    		. tennis
    
    more....?
    
    GOG
    

    
    Tennis
    Cricket
    Cricket On The Beach
    Soccer
    Football, Basketball
    

    I just thought I'd add my $.02 to this list just to muddy the results
    of the poll.
    
    Downhill Skiing (doing)               Basketball (watching)
    Cross-Country Skiing (doing)          Ski Racing (watching)
    Swimming (doing)                      NASCAR Racing (watching)
    Bicycling (doing)                     College Football (watching)
    Basketball (doing)                    Most Olympic Events (watching)
    Softball (doing)
    Power Walking (doing)
    
    This is about it.
    
    <CIA>
    

    Apparently I missed the idea of sports (not a dig).  These seem
    like mostly activities to me.  So, in light of how the replies are
    going, I will change .2 to fit the conference.
    
    1. 4 wheeling
    2. fly fishing 
    3. camping
    4. softball
    5. snow skiing
     
    I could probably combine the first 3.  I love to go 4 wheeling to
    a lake to fly fish and camp.
    
    Spence

1) Basketball (religiously, participating and watching)
2) Tennis (participating and watching)
3) Baseball (watching---Love those Red Sox, especially Bill Buckner,  :{) )


					--Gerry

    
    Basketball
    Racquetball
    Softball
    Football
    Rugby
    Hockey
    Golf
    Bowling
    
    all the above playing
    
    I like watching all the above as well....
    
    				.mike
    

    I love sports ....playing and watching...my favorites are:
    
    Football, Basketball, Boxing, Baseball, Track
    
    Hey what is Snooker?
    

    1. BASEBALL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
    2. Football
    3. Bowling
    4. Bicycling
    5. Hiking
    
    --bonnie

    1> Middleweight boxing
    2> Heavyweight boxing
    3> Welterweight boxing
    4> Olympic boxing
    5> Filler boxing (my name for the matches of 5 rounds or less between
    men who have mohawks and little talent)
    
    I guess that's about it...
    

    Paintball!!!
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    Paintball!!!