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Post by Rob Allen on Jun 13, 2014 12:35:49 GMT -5
The Spurs have destroyed the Heat in both games in Miami, and are now an odds-on favorite to win the series this Sunday in San Antonio. In the process, Tim Duncan set new records for career playoff minutes (beating Kareem's total) and career playoff double-doubles (beating Magic's total). If I were LeBron, I'd ask to be traded to San Antonio.
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Post by Hoosier X on Jun 13, 2014 12:50:48 GMT -5
The Spurs are doing just fine without LeBron.
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Post by Hoosier X on Jun 13, 2014 15:44:56 GMT -5
I'm rooting for Netherlands in the World Cup. I always root for one of the really good teams that's never won. So right now, The Netherlands are playing Spain, the World Cup champs from last year. (Spain beat Netherlands in the final last time around.)
And the Netherlands is killing Spain! With just a few minutes left in the game, Netherlands is ahead 5-1! Woo-hoot!
I feel kind of bad for Spain though. (Hopefully they can still get out of group play if Chile and Australia don't do so well.)
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Post by Deleted on Jun 13, 2014 17:04:11 GMT -5
I'm rooting for Netherlands in the World Cup. I always root for one of the really good teams that's never won. So right now, The Netherlands are playing Spain, the World Cup champs from last year. (Spain beat Netherlands in the final last time around.) And the Netherlands is killing Spain! With just a few minutes left in the game, Netherlands is ahead 5-1! Woo-hoot! Finally we can agree on something. I had money on them too  |
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Post by Hoosier X on Jun 13, 2014 17:24:48 GMT -5
Of course, I'm also rooting for the U.S. But I also like to root for somebody who can win.
Mexico looked pretty strong against Cameroon, and I'll be watching a few of the games with people from Mexico, so I'd like to see them get out of group play.
Chile's looking pretty strong against Australia right now.
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Post by berkley on Jun 14, 2014 0:25:50 GMT -5
Kings win the Cup. They deserved it, definitely the best team in the playoffs this year and they had to beat all the other top teams to get there.
Shocking collapse by Spain against the Netherlands in the WC. Everyone was saying the latter were too old, but they didn't look it today. I wonder if Spain will be able to recover mentally from this debacle.
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Post by DubipR on Jun 14, 2014 12:42:42 GMT -5
Oh how sweet it is! My beloved Kings hoist the Cup again! What a nerve wrecking series that was! The Rangers pushed them to the limit and beyond and the Kings pulled out a little miracle. I can't wait until Monday for the parade.  |
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Post by Crimebuster on Jun 14, 2014 13:33:56 GMT -5
Dan B.'s rant in the Meanwhile thread about how all sports other than baseball are terrible got me thinking about other sports and what it means to be a sports fan. While I consider myself a sports fan, I don't really think of myself as a "sports fan," if you know what I mean. There are so many people where I live that eat, drink and breathe sports 24-7. I don't.
I think it's the difference between breadth and depth - I have a pretty broad interest in sports even though I'm not that nuts about any one in particular. However, even though I don't think of myself as a sports nut, compared to most people I probably seem like a raving lunatic, especially when I think about some of the more unusual sporting experiences I've had.
For instance, I once attended the NFL Draft. I followed Payne Stewart around the Old Course in St. Andrews, Scotland. I've been to a Japanese League baseball game. I sat courtside behind David Ferrer at a U.S. Open match. I watched the leaders of the Boston Marathon run through Kenmore Square. I was in the bleachers for a pitcher's 300th win. I've attended a World Cup soccer match. I saw future NASCAR drivers Ron Bouchard and Geoff Bodine battle it out on the modified circuit. I once tried to get into a Rugby World Cup match but had to settle for watching it on a giant screen with a crowd of drunk Welshmen in front of a castle. Hell, I was at the Bucky Dent game!
So what about you guys? Do you consider yourselves sports fans? What are some of the memorable sporting events you have attended?
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Post by Deleted on Jun 14, 2014 13:43:14 GMT -5
Dan B.'s rant in the Meanwhile thread about how all sports other than baseball are terrible That's a bit of an overstatement. They're mostly merely stupid &/or aren't sports to begin with. More evidence against golf being worthy of anything but scorn. Any activity in which someone could dress up like a right prat & not be laughed at is most definitely not a sport. (See also: tennis, & the oohing & aahing over what this or that female tennis player is wearing for this or that tournament. Jesus, that's not a sport -- it's some sort of silly fashion exercise. Maybe cosplay.) |
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Post by Action Ace on Jun 14, 2014 13:54:55 GMT -5
I watch a lot of sports on tv, but I've attended exactly two pro/college sporting events in my life. One was the final round if the 1980 Jackie Gleason Inverrary Classic a golf tournament my dad took me to and the practice rounds of the 1996 Masters where I got to see Arnold Palmer, Jack Nicklaus and Tiger Woods play together.
I have an extreme aversion to large crowds, traffic and alcohol, so I don't see my attendance at sporting events growing any time soon.
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Post by Action Ace on Jun 14, 2014 13:59:03 GMT -5
Dan B.'s rant in the Meanwhile thread about how all sports other than baseball are terrible That's a bit of an overstatement. They're mostly merely stupid &/or aren't sports to begin with. More evidence against golf being worthy of anything but scorn. Any activity in which someone could dress up like a right prat & not be laughed at is most definitely not a sport. (See also: tennis, & the oohing & aahing over what this or that female tennis player is wearing for this or that tournament. Jesus, that's not a sport -- it's some sort of silly fashion exercise. Maybe cosplay.) I'm a rare bird that spends a thousand dollars a year on comic books and golf. There's not a lot of crossover in fandom between the two hobbies. I should find out from my fellow golfers how stupid they think comic books are. |
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Post by Crimebuster on Jun 14, 2014 14:56:15 GMT -5
That's a bit of an overstatement. They're mostly merely stupid &/or aren't sports to begin with. More evidence against golf being worthy of anything but scorn. Any activity in which someone could dress up like a right prat & not be laughed at is most definitely not a sport. (See also: tennis, & the oohing & aahing over what this or that female tennis player is wearing for this or that tournament. Jesus, that's not a sport -- it's some sort of silly fashion exercise. Maybe cosplay.) I'm a rare bird that spends a thousand dollars a year on comic books and golf. There's not a lot of crossover in fandom between the two hobbies. I should find out from my fellow golfers how stupid they think comic books are. You should collect golf themed comics!  |
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Post by Deleted on Jun 14, 2014 18:51:17 GMT -5
Only pro sports events I've attended, other than probably a couple or three dozen minor league baseball games in Little Rock, Shreveport & here in Montgomery (plus one AAA game in Phoenix, a decade or so before the Diamondbacks came into being), are the first USFL game in Tempe back in '83 (Arizona Wranglers vs. the Los Angeles Express) &, after moving to Montgomery, four Atlanta Braves games.
I attended a few high school & college football games at my alma maters (not counting the basketball games I played in, or rather rode the bench beside, as a 7th-grader), but have been to only a handful of major-college games -- ASU vs. Stanford in football (we beat John Elway with a very Elwayesque fourth-quarter drive engingeered by our backup QB) &, in basketball, vs. UCLA & (in the NITs) TCU, & Auburn (only 30 minutes or so east of here) vs. Tulane, Ball State & Arkansas in football.
The Arkansas game was a thrill. Auburn was ranked No. 2 in the nation, IIRC, & we ... weren't. The Hogs, whom of course I'd followed since childhood but had never laid eyes on before, won something like 30-7, & I must say I felt sort of sheepish about enjoying everything & wearing my Arkansas baseball cap while seated in a stadum full of Auburn faithful.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 14, 2014 19:29:33 GMT -5
England got beat 2-1 by Italy.  Thankfully, as Brit as I am, I didn't wager, thinking it would be a draw. Oh well, I'm still eating pizza tonight.... |
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Post by Hoosier X on Jun 14, 2014 23:20:33 GMT -5
That Costa Rica-Uruguay game was amazing. Costa Rica won 3-1! Even though they were trailing 1-0 at the half, I knew they would win. They just had so many shots they were almost getting, but they couldn't get past the Uruguay defense, but it looked to me like Uruguay was getting tired in the Forteleza heat and humidity.
But I thought for sure England was going to win the match with Italy. I thought England looked a lot better during most of the first half. (I was distracted a lot after that. I was visiting my dad and he got bored with the World Cup and wanted to play cards. So I only saw the game when I looked over my shoulder.)
And Scott Harris: It sounds like you and I have a similar attitude to sports. I like any sport if I attend a live event. And when I was in England for a few months in 1984, I watched some sports (on TV) that I've seldom watched since, like cricket, just because I was curious about what was going on. And I spent HOURS one Sunday watching coverage of an event where a dude dressed like a country squire stands on a hill in the middle of an obstacle course and yells commands at a sheep dog who directs four sheep through the course. I was fascinated.
My favorite baseball movie: Either Eight Men Out or Pride of the Yankees.
Tell us more about your World Cup experience. And I'll be back in a minute with one of my favorite sports moments.
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