Posted on 09/11/2019 1:06:38 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Dam right! Training camp is around the corner,
The dullards of the world like soccer.
Yes and they make Soccer rioters look tame. On one occasion the Indian team was losing so the crowd burnt down the stadium.
Believe it or not there are two cricket leagues on Long island !
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.
Thanks! I’ve seen it before but I put it on my list again. Pretty cool how sports can bring a town together.
Gotcha, thanks for the correction.
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.
“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.
“...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?
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