[Walddk]

Top 10:
1. Cricket.
2. Football (the real thing, aka soccer).
3. Handball.
4. Ice hockey.
5. Tennis.
6. Badminton.
7. Basketball.
8. Athletics.
9. Table tennis.
10. Swimming.
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57. Baseball.
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98. American football.

Roland

[luke warm]

football (the real thing, nfl)
baseball (the real thing, mlb)
college football

[pclayton]

1. Golf
2. Hockey
3. More Golf
4. Seniors Golf
5. LPGA
6. Baseball
7. College Football
8. Tennis
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.26. College Basketball
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.71. Pro football
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.99. Pro basketball


Table Tennis Roland? Anytime, anywhere

[Walddk]

pclayton, on Mar 10 2006, 12:05 AM, said:

Table Tennis Roland? Anytime, anywhere 

No contest, I can hardly lift the ball

By the way, although I know that ice hockey is called hockey everywhere in North America, it's hardly fair on the sport that's played outdoors, also known as hockey (field). You ask somebody from India, Pakistan, England, South Africa or Netherlands, and they won't associate hockey with anything that's played indoors in an ice rink.

Go Red Wings!!

Roland

[Elianna]

Is this to play or to watch?

to play:
1. softball
2. badminton
3. tennis
4. ballroom dance
5. tag football
6. volleyball
7. capture the flag
8. table tennis
9. flag football
10. soccer

to watch:
1. MLB baseball
2. College Football
3. Olympics (anything except hockey (eta, for Roland: ice) or basketball)
4. Little League world championships
5. Singles tennis
6. Figure Skating
7. World Cup soccer
8. doubles tennis
9. NFL football
10. College Baseball
...
50. College basketball
...
99. Golf
...
10845730. NBA Basketball

[Walddk]

Elianna, on Mar 10 2006, 12:18 AM, said:

4. ballroom dance

Excuse me, is that a sport? I guess it is, and if it is, I prefer square dance. That can take the breath away from anyone!

Roland

[Sigi_BC84]

Snooker!

Runner Ups:

• Ballroom Dancing (to practice and to watch)
  
• Socker (sometimes)
  
• Tennis (sometimes)

--Sigi

[Deanrover]

1. Boxing
2. Football
3. Snooker
4. Rugby
5. Cricket

I expect to be schooled in American sports when I emigrate there this summer

[Elianna]

Walddk, on Mar 9 2006, 03:23 PM, said:

Elianna, on Mar 10 2006, 12:18 AM, said:

4. ballroom dance

Excuse me, is that a sport? I guess it is, and if it is, I prefer square dance. That can take the breath away from anyone!

Roland

If you asked the average person on the street, they're more likely to agree to Ballroom dance being a sport than bridge.

It was also an exhibition sport at Olympics.

[Aberlour10]

to play:

1) Basketball
2) Handball
3) Downhill


to watch:

1) NBA
2) Handball
3) Ski Alpine
4) Soccer
5) Snooker
6) Biathlon
7) Tennis

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3091) Cricket ( If I manage to learn how the points in this game
are counted, I will move it on my list to the first thousand )


Robert

[Walddk]

Aberlour10, on Mar 10 2006, 02:27 AM, said:

3091) Cricket ( If I manage to learn how the points in this game
are counted, I will move it on my list to the first thousand )


Robert

If a batsman hits the ball when it is bowled to him, he may attempt to score runs. He scores a run when both the batsmen run to the opposite wicket, swapping places. As soon as they both touch the ground behind the opposite popping crease, one run is scored, and they may return for another run immediately, if they wish. The fielding side attempts to prevent runs being scored by threatening to run out one of the batsmen.

The batsmen generally carry their bats as they run, and turn for another run by touching the ground beyond the crease with an outstretched bat.

The batsmen stay at the wicket they end up at. So if they have run an odd number of runs, they have swapped ends and their striker/non-striker roles are swapped for the next ball (unless the ball just completed is the end of the over).

Being Run Out
If the batsmen are running between the wickets, and a fielder gathers the ball and hits a wicket with it, dislodging one or both bails, while no batsman is behind that wicket's popping crease, then the nearest batsman is run out. Specifically, the batsman must have some part of his body or his bat (provided he is holding it) grounded behind the crease to be safe. On the crease is not safe.

Boundaries
In baseball, if you hit a home run you still have to run the bases. In cricket, if you hit a 4 or 6, you score the runs without actually having to run.

In baseball, if you catch a fly ball and then fall over the home run fence, the batter is out. In cricket, if you catch the ball and then fall over the boundary, the batsman scores six runs and is not out.

If a batsman hits the ball and it reaches the boundary of the field, he scores four runs immediately. This is called a four. If a batsman hits the ball over the boundary on the full, he scores six runs. This is called a six.

When a four or six is scored, the ball becomes dead. Fours and sixes are collectively called boundaries.

If a fielder touches both the ball and either the boundary marker or anything beyond the boundary at the same time, the ball is deemed to have reached the boundary. This means the batsman scores a four if the ball has touched the ground since he hit it, or a six if it has not.

If a spectator encroaches on to the field and touches the ball while it is live, it is also considered to have reached the boundary.

Overthrows
The batsmen usually stop taking runs when a fielder is throwing the ball back towards one or the other wicket. If no fielder near the wicket gathers the ball and it continues into the outfield again, the batsmen may take more runs. Such runs are called overthrows. If the ball reaches the boundary on an overthrow, four runs are scored in addition to the runs taken before the overthrow occurred.

Short Runs
If, while running multiple runs, a batsman does not touch the ground beyond the popping crease before he returns for the next run, then the umpire at that end will signal one short, and the number of runs scored is reduced by one.

.....

Another day I will give you a detailed explanation of how to score runs

Roland

[Walddk]

Cricket as explained to a foreigner:
You have two sides, one out in the field and one in. Each man that's in the side that's in goes out, and when he's out he comes in and the next man goes in until he's out. When they are all out, the side that's out comes in and the side thats been in goes out and tries to get those coming in, out.

Sometimes you get men still in and not out. That happens when the captain of the batting side decides to declare the innings.

When a man goes out to go in, the men who are out try to get him out, and when he is out he goes in and the next man in goes out and goes in.

There are two men called umpires who stay all out all the time and they decide when the men who are in are out. When both sides have been in and all the men have been out, and both sides have been out twice after all the men have been in, including those who are not out, that is the end of the game!

Howzat!

Roland

[sceptic]

1/. Power Lifting
2/. Ice skating (watching)
3/. Figure skating (watching)
Ice Hockey (watching)
4/. Rugby
5/. Boxing (I prefer to watch this now as it takes to long to recover form a good thumping at my age hahahaha)
6/. Bowling Any sort really (except cricket which is not a sport it is an excuse to get out the house drink on a sunny afternoon. perhaps this should be number 1)
8/. I like watching any athletics and the Olympics
9/. Shooting
10/. moto cross, Rallying etc etc anything BUT NASCAR or anything that involves driving in circles for hours on end

[Aberlour10]

Thank you for the explanation Roland, it brings more logic
in my understanding of this game, but I suppose... every child
in Pakistan knows more about cricket than all East Europeans together.

Robert

[DrTodd13]

My favorite sport is the second most popular participation sport in the world...table tennis.

[42]

active:
walking (without those dumb sticks)
Taiji
tango
gymnastic
sometimes swimming

passive:
soccer
handball
snooker
dancing
karate
Bi-, Triathlon

[joker_gib]

Interesting that table tennis seems to be appreciated among bridge players !

I used to be in the best 100 players in my country. OK, the country is small but the level was (is) very good !


Now when I'm not at the bridge table I'm running an orienteering course somewhere in Belgium or in Europe !

Alain

[Echognome]

Too various to enumerate.

But my short list is:

Playing:
1. American Football
2. Basketball
3. Golf
4. Racquetball
5. Coed Softball

Watching:
1. American Football
2. NCAA Basketball
3. Baseball
4. Cricket (I'm a convert)
5. Golf (helps me sleep)

[badderzboy]

Please Please when you add NFL Football , call it American Football not to confuse it with the real Football played by the rest of the world ie FIFA the international body does not mention soccer also a game played with a ball and your foot unlike the american version where u use your foot 6-10 times a game at most as a team which is more akin to Rugby League / Union Football just a bit weedier ( we don;t wear body armour and helmets!) and we also pass the ball backwards to make it a little harder.

favourites Sports to play.

Rugby
Badminton
Table Tennis

to Watch

Football
Rugby
American Football!
Cricket
Golf ( Ryder cup especially when Europe win lol)
Pool ( Mosconi Cup unfortunately Europe don't win)

Just kidding

Steve