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Basketball is already #2 and will remain there &
Apr 29, 2012, 11:14 AM
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the others will always be sports no one wants to watch. Just look at the crowds at these sports. They're just too boring and no black athlete wants to play them and that is the key
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Frankly, basketball is a distant #2. That's why TV deals
Apr 29, 2012, 11:26 AM
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are being moved by football. That was not the case in the 70s, 80s and 90s. Times have changed.
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Yeah and Soccer does very well world wide
Apr 29, 2012, 11:50 AM
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also but no one here cares. Watching live is one thing but TV viewers is the key. If it isn't fun to watch on TV then it won't grow
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the article talks about youth sport participation
Apr 29, 2012, 11:54 AM
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not every sport can be #1 and that shouldt mean they get ignored
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soccer has been growing in huge numbers among kids for
Apr 29, 2012, 3:09 PM
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decades, yet by the time they leave college the level of interest is but a mere fraction of that among kids.
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well because nascar isnt a sport
Apr 29, 2012, 11:56 AM
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its like a social gathering
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If its on ESPN it's a sport***
Apr 29, 2012, 11:58 AM
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well ok, but that means that spelling bee is also a sport***
Apr 29, 2012, 12:04 PM
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Re: well ok, but that means that spelling bee is also a sport***
Apr 29, 2012, 12:22 PM
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Yep
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I don't think you understand what those drivers actually go
Apr 29, 2012, 12:56 PM
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through during the race.
Believe it or not they actually weight train to be able to handle the cars and g-forces on their bodies.
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Re: I don't think you understand what those drivers actually go
Apr 29, 2012, 1:17 PM
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So the only requirement for something being a sport is if the participants sometimes maybe do a little weight training? The "sport" was invented by drunk hillbillies.
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personally I can;t stand lacrosse***
Apr 29, 2012, 11:55 AM
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Fishing is where its at,but how could you have a
Apr 29, 2012, 12:01 PM
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large crowd? Build a stadium around a big pond?
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yeah, so are you going against your previous
Apr 29, 2012, 12:03 PM
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point that karge crowds are the only thing that matter for a sport's worth?
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You have to have large crowds and big TV audience.
Apr 29, 2012, 12:13 PM
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empty stadium is bad for TV
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which is fine, but let's not confuse attendance at flushing
Apr 29, 2012, 12:17 PM
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meadow with popularity.
speaking of tennis, when are we going to grow some champions, some mad dawg mean competitors ala connors, mcenroe, agassi[later in his career], even sampras as stoic as he was would flat fight until the tennis was done.
we are pitiful on the world scene; golf as well, basketball, just terrible.
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who knows
Apr 29, 2012, 12:19 PM
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There are some good junior players, but none of them seem to be champion material. They will be top 30 guys(which in every other sport is considered an allstar, but in tennis only the top 5 or so matter to the larger audience)
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i respect anyone ranked in the top 100[whichever they keep],
Apr 29, 2012, 12:28 PM
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it's a heck of an accomplishment.
but, the pro golf tour is littered with the same lack of 'chip' from our players that the us was vilified for, yet served us well when ryder cup, walker cup, pres cup...
heck, the davis cup is named after a former us secretary of war.
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Re: which is fine, but let's not confuse attendance at flushing
Apr 29, 2012, 12:59 PM
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Golf, tennis, soccer are all getting worse in America.
I wouldn't say basketball is getting worse, we just seem to be losing grasp of the fundamentals and team play on the national scene that other nations do.
Hockey is still decent but it's Canada's national sport.
Not many countries play American style football which is why we are probably the most dominant country in that sport much like America would be terrible at cricket.
It just seems we don't have the drive to be the absolute best at something unless it will make us the most money i.e. Football.
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see faulty stats. golf is not gettin worse in america. more
Apr 29, 2012, 3:18 PM
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kids take up golf now than ever before. golf is better in america now than ever. thanks to tiger, tv, and money, golf is growing everywhere. and golf has been taking off around the world and growing like crazy since the 80s. america is not getting worse in golf, it's simply incredibly more competitive on a global scale.
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like lowcountry said about golf
Apr 29, 2012, 6:32 PM
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its more about other nations beefing up their efforts in tennis. In the late 80's and early 90's tennis ran through Southern California. It no longer does.
But despite the lack of champions we still have more men in the top 100 than any other country except France and Spain
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i don't agree with B_C, we may have more players, a deeper
Apr 29, 2012, 6:42 PM
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field, but we don't have winners, cold-blooded, heartless champions.
we're talking about 2 sports born in great britain/europe. 2 sports the us was the dominant force in around the world.
too many people saying, but we have the most in the top 100. i don't want participation awards, i want to dominate davis and ryder cups.
tiger has played on a soft tour. he's about the last heartless champion in either sport, certainly on the US side.
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and that's the biggest joke in the world
Apr 29, 2012, 12:09 PM
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are you counting just one day or the whole deal, both mens and womens?
If you're counting the entire event, then you should also use the same logic when counting the NCAA basketball tourney (men+women), the NFL playoffs, Daytona Speed Week, The World Cup, and about 100 other things that would dwarf a tennis tournament.
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im talking about a single day
Apr 29, 2012, 12:11 PM
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yes there are several matches on that one day, but everyone pays at the same site to get in.
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The only sport I have a problem with is
Apr 29, 2012, 12:19 PM
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Rowing. The Clemson row team is in my way to me getting to my favorite fishing hole. Stupid signs that say rowing in progress, please no wake. I accedently came up on them one day and they had to wait till I got through before they could start. Don't. think they liked it but tough. Caught a lot of fish that day
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Rowing gets on my nevres too
Apr 29, 2012, 12:20 PM
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mainly because of the large crowds they get. I went one day. It took 6 minutes and we destroyed the opponent.
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Shouldn't be hard to draw a crowd for a day on the lake***
Apr 29, 2012, 12:26 PM
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maybe they should put troy on the schedule?***
Apr 29, 2012, 12:53 PM
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That's what she said***
Apr 29, 2012, 1:15 PM
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talking about your waitress right?
Apr 29, 2012, 1:38 PM
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after a big tip?
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are you talking tennis? dozens of matches played over a
Apr 29, 2012, 3:06 PM
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couple of weeks? you're using number tricks. anyone can play that game. more people attend college football games on any given saturday than any other sport.
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You have never watched a good Lacrosse game and ....
Apr 29, 2012, 11:52 PM
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Not many Black Athletes in Lacrosse because how often do Black athletes get a chance to play Lacrosse? Lacrosse has traditionally been a white prep school sport where Muffy and Skip watch their coddled spoiled (and largely awkward) brat) stumble up and down the "pitch" (field) while sipping wine and eating cheese ... BUT, that is rapidly changing ... Many PUBLIC High Schools now offer the sport and its just a matter of time.
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Faulty logic and stastistics. Just like how advocates use
Apr 29, 2012, 3:02 PM
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the same faulty logic and statistics to in politics or to lobby for funding grants or by the media to sensationalize crime stats.
Wrestling is dropping dramatically because Title IX was implemented in a very flawed way. Feminazis claimed they did not want to harm mens athletics, they only wanted equality, but then they demanded football scholarships be included in the calculations to meet Title IX requirements. When experts and people exercising common sense explained to the Feminazis that football is the goose that lays the golden eggs. And explained that there is no equivalent female sport and that it would cause real harm to other male sports because of the scholarship inequities, do you think they cared? Nope! That proved that the Feminazis only cared about exact equality in numbers, not equity and fairness. Never mind the reality that girls/women care far far less in general about sports than boys/men. Therefore, as college wrestling programs continually get axed, so goes opportunities for scholarships and interest.
As far as other sports, if you compare any two sports, they can statistically be growing at the same rate, but one be far more popular than the other. And the more popular a sport is, even a tiny increase in participation on a percentage basis can mean more new participants than many faster growing sports have in total participants.
You see this in the media all the time with crime statistics. Charleston has a very low number of murders annually, but there was a spike one year due to drugs/gangs and murders went up a lot on a percentage basis despite only being a handful more murders. Statistically it looked like murder was out of control, but was a fraction of other cities. Naturally the media jumped on it a sensationalized it like crazy.
You have to look past statistics and compare the number of new participants in real numbers to see which sports are actually most popular and rowing fastest.
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Just because something grows fast...
Apr 29, 2012, 3:53 PM
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doesn't mean it will get very big.
Trust me, I know.
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