[craigawoodman]

I have to admit, for someone who lives DownUnder, I do like Ice Hockey - particularly live where you can feel the impact of someone against the wall. It is jut so damn quick, and it is played on ice - hard slipery surface to boot. The passion and fighting are a bonus.



To me, baseball is like cricket, I had more fun watching the croud mis-behave than the game. When I lived in the US, a game of NFL which has 15 minute quarters took 50 minutes for the first 3 quarters and 50 minutes for the last 15 minutes. It is too stop/start.



Synchronised swimming is just un-natural (how do you hold your breath underwater for 2 minutes and come up with a silly grin on your face and not panting for air).



Sumo wrestling just provides WAY TOO MUCH flesh for viewing pleasure.



Golf is good when it is played on a charity day and you have to consume a can of beer a hole. I think I play better when I use this process than trying to be serious.



I loved playing both Rugby League and Rugby Union and then progressing onto Touch Rugby. I like tennis and squash and mens tennis is amazing when watched live - how do they hit the ball an inch off the ground back at 100mph and get it in.



Watching live motorbike racing just makes me cringe.



Watching live jet-boat racing just blows your mind.



Top fuel drag racing is a sensory overload.

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[robadams56]

Wait just a minute....how could we leave out curling? The intensity, the drama, the speed and action!!!!! The sensory overload as the puck creates an almost discernable rumble as it barrels down the ice, barely in control. It's breathtaking and action-packed and I challenge anyone in the forum to handle sweeping the sidewalks with the speed of a curling sweeper!

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[ds968]

So in addition to all of the other merits, here's the bonus :



Article link :



http://health.yahoo.net/experts/mensheal...marter-you



Key Excerpt :

According to a new study in the journal PLoS ONE, soccer players are significantly smarter than, well, pretty much everyone.

When professional soccer players were tested on “executive function”—a key aspect in memory, multitasking, and creativity—they scored significantly higher than the general population. In fact, elite players belonged to the best 2 to 5 percent of the total population, says Predrag Petrovic, Ph.D., the lead researcher and professor at Karolinska Institute in Stockholm.

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[Langley968]

Interesting read!



Curious that this thread pops back up on the day I watched the UEFA Champions League semi-final between Real Madrid (1) and Bayern (2). [size="3"][color="#000000"]Tomorrow's game bewtween Barcelona and Chelsea will be a dandy! [/color][/size]

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[mbardeen]

After leaving the UK, I've kind of lost track of what's happening in football. Really, the only time I watch it now is during the World Cup. I'd love to take a trip to the World Cup next year, seeing that it's so close.



Messi didn't impress me very much last WC, but Diego Forlan and Alexis Sanchez did.. I can't wait to see them this WC, especially Sanchez, now that he's had time to mature and get some world class experience at Barcelona.

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[AJG]

Cycling, enough said.

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[ds968]

[quote name='AJG' timestamp='1336246876' post='126582']Cycling, enough said.[/quote]



Or, ReCycling for those who want an environmentally friendly sport

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[ds968]

Talk about the most incredible twists of fate ( possibly, in premier league history ..) and all down to the last couple of minutes of added time ..

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[zama]

Love it, leave it or indifferent to it, other than Athletics there is no other world sport other than Football or Soccer as it is still known in the USA and Australia. I am a bit indifferent to it but went to the world cup in 2006, and nothing compares as a spectacle or for population engagement. Played at the top level it is great entertainment.



For me Sumo is the ultimate sport but getting the Mawashi outside of japan is not easy. Until you see a live grand tournament you can understand how amazing it is.

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[ds968]

Yesterday's friendly match between Manchester United and Real Madrid held here in the soccer-disinterested USA filled a 109,000 seat Michigan stadium which sold out in record time. Largest attendance ever for a match in the US ( not to mention that it was just a friendly match of no relevance other than entertainment value ), slightly exceeding the attendance of the World Cup semifinal and final in Pasadena's Rose Bowl stadium, though the latter may have been a stadium capacity issue. In any event, nice to see that kind of a crowd show up for soccer. Of course considering Man U has the largest following of any sports team on a world-wide basis, it's perhaps not a shocking number ..even for us .

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[WJH]

A car forum where nobody has mentioned the great American sport of NASCAR!

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[Rap]

Yea but that's Michigan. That's a liberal infested state so perhaps it's not a good example. Heck they want to pay pensions when there is no money!

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[ds968]

Gee, and now we even tie sports to the political landscape, lol. Wait, I'm pretty sure we have a NASCAR thread around here somewhere , don't we ? Or maybe it was just a few posts in another car racing thread , with some taking pot shots and some defending NASCAR . And yes, that would draw a much larger crowd than most any other sport . That's if you count people ; if however, you count the number of teeth of all spectators watching NASCAR, it may barely add up to the equivalent of one front row at any other sporting event . Parrr-umpum.

p.s. And I'll refrain from politics by not inferring what affiliation or liberal vs conservative views most , if not all NASCAR fans hold...

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[Rap]

Wait they have political views? Does it depend on the number of teeth?

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[WJH]

You guys are being unkind to NASCAR!! I live a few miles from a major track here in the midwest. The folks that follow NASCAR take it VERY seriously. Personally, I've never been there. 100,000 people at a race is a little much for me. They just built a casino at the track. There is a LOT of money in the NASCAR game.



I'm not sure about the teeth thing. My neighbor is a fan, and he does have teeth!



I truly believe that baseball is really the perfect game. A game of skill where physical size is not the deciding factor.

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[az968]

Nope, only the amount of PEDs they can ingest without being detected.

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[ds968]

Et tu, Franz ?! http://sports.yahoo.com/news/5-investiga...--spt.html

The beautiful game, tainted by FIFA. This organization is about as pathetically corrupt as the World Boxing Federation. FIFA needs to be deconstructed, every official unseated, and then rebuilt from scratch . Most of the top countries are already talking about abandoning FIFA if it continues on its current path ..

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[Bulti]

If proven guilty, they should dust off the gallows for those men.

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[biosurfer1]

Qatar getting the WC bid was evidence enough there were backroom deals and unmarked envelopes stuffed with cash being handed over. FIFA is a joke, corrupt isn't a strong enough word for those clowns. They disgrace the game.



These "investigations" never find anything wrong and they go on accepting money.

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[ds968]

Lol, check out Mario Balotelli's instagram - FIFA is supposedly up in arms over this post by "Super Mario" himself . Ha !

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