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Top 10 Most Popular Sports in The World Based on 15 Ranking Criteria
Sports Show ^ | 09/11/2019 | Sourav Das

Posted on 09/11/2019 1:06:38 PM PDT by SeekAndFind

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To: Alberta's Child

Dam right! Training camp is around the corner,


81 posted on 09/11/2019 2:38:30 PM PDT by Varda
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To: 1Old Pro

The dullards of the world like soccer.


82 posted on 09/11/2019 2:39:49 PM PDT by Bullish (My tagline ran off with another man.)
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To: crusty old prospector
Ice hockey's the best because of the announcers.
83 posted on 09/11/2019 2:40:03 PM PDT by real saxophonist (Yeah, well, y'know that's just like, uh... your opinion, man.)
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To: RayChuang88
Cricket is huge because of its enormous popularity in highly-populous India

Yes and they make Soccer rioters look tame. On one occasion the Indian team was losing so the crowd burnt down the stadium.

84 posted on 09/11/2019 3:30:03 PM PDT by Timocrat (Ingnorantia non excusat)
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To: Fiji Hill
Believe it or not, there is a cricket team in Compton, Calif.,

Believe it or not there are two cricket leagues on Long island !

85 posted on 09/11/2019 3:36:45 PM PDT by Timocrat (Ingnorantia non excusat)
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To: EEGator

My point was only that the Chinese can’t like basketball that much, because they suck at it. Any notion it was because they’re short is invalid.


86 posted on 09/11/2019 3:59:43 PM PDT by dangus
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To: Alberta's Child

Thanks! I’ve seen it before but I put it on my list again. Pretty cool how sports can bring a town together.


87 posted on 09/11/2019 4:02:40 PM PDT by 21twelve (!)
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To: dangus

Gotcha, thanks for the correction.


88 posted on 09/11/2019 4:02:55 PM PDT by EEGator
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To: Dr. Sivana

Field Hockey is the number one girls and women’s team sport in US and Canadian high schools and colleges. International men’s field hockey is huge.


89 posted on 09/11/2019 4:56:08 PM PDT by IndispensableDestiny
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To: dfwgator

“Cricket is awesome.”

Check out a movie called “Lagaan”. You’ve got to be able to handle Bollywood conventions (like people breaking into totally-stylized singing and dancing for no good reason), but you can only fully appreciate the denouement if you know some of the subtleties of the game.

I actually got to play a pick-up game once - a real hoot. They tried to put me at silly-mid-on - would have none of it.


90 posted on 09/11/2019 7:19:53 PM PDT by Stosh
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To: hirn_man

“...the virtually worthless skill of foot/eye coordination”.

It taught me the skill of kicking smart mouths in the gonads while looking them straight in the eye. Worthless?


91 posted on 09/12/2019 12:07:44 PM PDT by beelzepug (OCD and proud of it!)
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