A place for the discussion of all things not closely related to the sport and its competitive side. (Locked down several times a year during the major championships)
You can rest assured that I get VERY few opportunities to catch Sumo on the tube.
Almost as rare is an evenly-matched boxing match. Those seem to have gone the way of the dodo some 20 years ago, though I do catch the occasional terrific fight, though they are rare indeed. Classic Boxing on ESPN2 is 'bout as close as I come nowadays.
I'm lucky enough to get the CBC channel living in close proximity to the Canadian border. As a result, I get to catch the very occasional track cycling event. They don't show any of that in the states. That's the best. Up until a couple of years back, OLN carried full coverage of the Giro di Italia and the Vuelta de Espana as well as some of the one-day classics on the road. These were terrific! During the bulk of the Lance era, the TDF was pretty much a yawner so I mostly skipped it. Maybe now that he's left the building it'll be much more interesting (if we get any coverage at all).
And, of course, T & F remainis my favorite sport. But as a spectator it's live or nuthini' fer me. That crappy coverage on TV is worse than havin' none.
ok seriously, favorite? not fair, there are so many great sports and i love em almost 1/2 as much as doz guz and gals rounding round in circles.
not in order-
golf- maybe the hardest sport to truely master, the best in the world on a bad day are clowns.
football- to a lot of people just giant men falling down. not true! a human chess match.
f1 racing- the best drivers in the world in the fastest cars in the world going so fast its not to be believed.
nascar- i know what your thinking, hillbillies in stockcars dont amout to a hill of beans. WRONG!
boxing-when its good there's nothin better, when its bad there's nothin worse.
tennis! ice skating! gymnastics! ect ect.
ok, all things considered the greatest 3 hours of sport, becides track, ive had in my life is watching joe montana and my niners come back and win the super bowl!!
I'll watch almost anything including the America's Cup yacht races, NASCAR, syncro swimming, equestrian, competitive eating, etc . The one exception is tennis. I try...but I don't last more than ten minutes before dozing off.
you may have noticed i did not mention bowling or fencing. how about a great horse race everybody! worlds strongest man. even bodybuilding as a freak show.
Basketball. Dang aren't there any basketball fans around here. I personally consider golf about as much a sport as bowling and possibly less so than table tennis.
I'm a really lousy sports fan in general--there are very few other sports that I know anything about or follow at all. I do watch most of the championship events-Wimbledon, Masters Golf, Super Bowl, Tour de Francne, etc. I actively despite "motor" sports and despite giving it some effort, don't get cricket. I enjoyed the Henley Regatta while living there, and really enjoyed an Australian Rules Football match a decade or so in Melbourne (at the MCG, or, as we would know it, the '56 Olympic stadium), but can't say I try to "keep up" with either of these. So, bottom line: I'm almost Puritanically "faithful" to t&f.
MJD wrote:Anybody else here follow the Spassky-Fischer championship? Great stuff.
i saw a documentary about that recently: apparently spassky had a winning record v fischer coming into the match !
the shenanigans in iceland upset him & he underperformed - he certainly wasn't worth a 6 - 0 thrashing ( or whatever it was )
we were robbed of the all-time classic in '75: fischer v karpov : fischer's dynamic style v karpov, the master torturer - what a match it wouda been !
remember how good karpov was - in the '81 match he was thrashing kasparov 5 - 0 ( first to 6 wins in a timeless match ) - kasparov just played for endless draws at this point until the wimpy karpov ran out of strength & levelled it up at 5 - 5, when they abandoned it
donley2 wrote:I personally consider golf about as much a sport as bowling and possibly less so than table tennis.
Golf and bowling are activities, not sports. By definition, any activity that can normally be successfully done by a smoker is not a sport.
I go with the "if a 70-year-old-woman can beat me, it's not a sport" rule. That rules out about 60% of the activities that people now call sport, INCLUDING any kind of distance running!
SQUACKEE wrote:ok, all things considered the greatest 3 hours of sport, becides track, ive had in my life is watching joe montana and my niners come back and win the super bowl!!
squackee,
I’m with you all the way. And continue on until Steve Young’s retirement. We were very fortunate around here. The Niners from about 1981 through about 1995 were a local franchise that most areas can only hope and dream of. Can’t watch them now . . . they suck big time.
So no one has mentioned my second favorite sport – Baseball. Man, has the BALCO crap had that big an affect? No one thinks baseball is clean, but you football fans out there are really kidding yourselves if you think that sport is drug free . . .
baseball is boring. they are not really athletes but more skill guys. baskettball, now they are true athletes. football too. i personally like individual sports. (track of course) boxing and tennis.
MJD wrote:Anybody else here follow the Spassky-Fischer championship? Great stuff.
i saw a documentary about that recently: apparently spassky had a winning record v fischer coming into the match !
the shenanigans in iceland upset him & he underperformed - he certainly wasn't worth a 6 - 0 thrashing ( or whatever it was )
Fischer had never beaten him. Spassky won the first game. Fischer forfeited the second. Then Fischer won 7 out of the next 19, Spassky won one and 11 were drawn.
who can bench more than you !"
