there was a p great feats of dexterity moment from table tennis on the bbc website today, granted dayo
― imago, Monday, 20 June 2016 22:50 (seven years ago) link
basketball far and away for me
― ciderpress, Monday, 20 June 2016 23:05 (seven years ago) link
should have just been the first four. answer is basketball of those
― imago, Monday, June 20, 2016 10:49 PM (44 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
otm
― A heartless anonymous firebrand (Tom D.), Monday, 20 June 2016 23:34 (seven years ago) link
basketball the only sport i've ever paid money to attend
― le Histoire du Edgy Miley (difficult listening hour), Monday, 20 June 2016 23:35 (seven years ago) link
I love how theres american football and soccer, but no rugby/union/AFL.
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Monday, 20 June 2016 23:43 (seven years ago) link
basketball, soccer, rugby are all nice. baseball is best tho
― dynamicinterface, Monday, 20 June 2016 23:47 (seven years ago) link
american football is the only one i *haven't* spent money to attend
― mookieproof, Monday, 20 June 2016 23:49 (seven years ago) link
seeing an nfl game live was one of the worst entertainment experiences i have ever had
― jason waterfalls (gbx), Monday, 20 June 2016 23:56 (seven years ago) link
The real answer is obvious cricket:
I can't go into all the shockers right now, but I'll briefly hang my head and confess to having a) bowled a spell of 3-1-41-0, b) been the second dismissed batsman of a hat-trick TWICE, c) effected a 15-yard run-out with my left boot (okay, that was a highlight, and one that will never be topped), d) bowled a spell of 4-0-65-0, after my opening attack had reduced a frankly woeful line-up to 22-5, e) deliberately thrown the ball for four after dropping a catch (my nadir), f) run out my partner, who was innings top-scorer, and holed out to square-leg next ball, g) come out to face the last ball of a match we'd just lost, against an absolute joke-bowler, played a sweep to a donkey-dropper, missed, and been given lbw amidst riotous celebrations, and h) bowled the last over with 10 runs needed against tail-enders, and conceded all 10 after just three balls.
This is one of the funniest fucking things I've ever read. I feel like it's in Esperanto.
"Once I threw a wobbly for 5/0/i/2220 for after my first chugger caused a Pollyanna; imagine my face when the three tits went up on scoreboard! Lawks, what a shocker!"
― HI DERE, Sunday, September 2, 2007 4:47 PM (8 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― A heartless anonymous firebrand (Tom D.), Tuesday, 21 June 2016 00:44 (seven years ago) link
Hurling
― Daithi Bowsie (darraghmac), Tuesday, 21 June 2016 03:51 (seven years ago) link
I like playing badminton probably more than anything else, but as a spectator, baseball. When it means something--I'll get bored too when I don't have a rooting interest. I'm never bored by baseball stats.
― clemenza, Tuesday, 21 June 2016 03:53 (seven years ago) link
live hockey is a top product
― moistest hoist (Spottie), Tuesday, 21 June 2016 03:55 (seven years ago) link
Basketball's great if I care; I have dim memories of hockey being great when I cared (40 years ago); never much of a football fan; zero interest in soccer; I'll still watch golf, not as much as when Tiger was winning.
― clemenza, Tuesday, 21 June 2016 03:57 (seven years ago) link
As a participant I always liked to play basketball, but I probably had more fun playing pickup games of volleyball, just as long as the other players knew the real rules and basic techniques, as opposed to just haplessly batting a ball around. As a sport where I passively watch other people play who are hugely more talented than I am, basketball is more fun. Volleyball is a mediocre spectator sport.
― a little too mature to be cute (Aimless), Tuesday, 21 June 2016 03:57 (seven years ago) link
big devotee of newspaper bridge columns for this reason.
― le Histoire du Edgy Miley (difficult listening hour), Tuesday, 21 June 2016 03:58 (seven years ago) link
(tho lately of course they've been triggering)
― le Histoire du Edgy Miley (difficult listening hour), Tuesday, 21 June 2016 03:59 (seven years ago) link
basketball >>> baseball >> football
don't care about hockey and only watch big soccer matches. tennis/golf/badminton are my other favorites
― k3vin k., Tuesday, 21 June 2016 03:59 (seven years ago) link
A co-worker once tried to make bridge converts out of us--came into the classroom and taught the kids, had after-school sessions for teachers. I didn't take to it at all.
― clemenza, Tuesday, 21 June 2016 04:01 (seven years ago) link
But for some reason, West started with a high spade, and then the timing favored declarer. He was able to set up his long spades and escape for down one. Even minus 200 was a poor result for North-South in theory: East-West seemed to have no game. But in the replay, West played at 3NT, and when North led a diamond, the contract was cold.
― le Histoire du Edgy Miley (difficult listening hour), Tuesday, 21 June 2016 04:04 (seven years ago) link
My parents taught me bridge, so I know the lingo up to a point. It is more strategic and cerebral than other card games, but a lot more sociable than, say, chess.
― a little too mature to be cute (Aimless), Tuesday, 21 June 2016 04:07 (seven years ago) link
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-ExT1bfMMCMs/UFHsIhlM5II/AAAAAAAAYlw/h6G0N-U-8H8/s1600/giro+photo.jpg
― Ludo, Tuesday, 21 June 2016 09:49 (seven years ago) link
love it when an unreconstructed sexist shows up on ilx
― imago, Tuesday, 21 June 2016 10:01 (seven years ago) link
^^
Golf? Otherwise baseball. Go Rangers! (I'm not even watching it. Who can commit to 162 games per season?)
I desperately want to learn bridge, but finding three other people who are as keen is impossible. It just seems so much like telepathy.
― It certainly is punk of the Church of England to think that way (tangenttangent), Tuesday, 21 June 2016 11:30 (seven years ago) link
rip doggy
http://blogs.deia.com/bilbainhitos/files/2015/10/tour_perra-580x373.jpg
― soref, Tuesday, 21 June 2016 11:51 (seven years ago) link
Why the fuck would you only include team sports?
All of these sports are boring
Tennis
― the hallouminati (lex pretend), Tuesday, 21 June 2016 20:46 (seven years ago) link
Anyone who hasnt been youtubing hurling since i posted hurling doesnt deserve to have had my recommendation (hurling)
― Daithi Bowsie (darraghmac), Tuesday, 21 June 2016 20:50 (seven years ago) link
worst thread
― ||||||||, Tuesday, 21 June 2016 21:58 (seven years ago) link
some of these sports are okay, but only one involves fucking your mom on skates
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 21 June 2016 22:49 (seven years ago) link
basketball without a doubt
American football is a garbage sport imo
― marcos, Tuesday, 21 June 2016 22:53 (seven years ago) link
Hi Marcos
Did you check out hurling before making that post (and a show of yourself)?
― Daithi Bowsie (darraghmac), Tuesday, 21 June 2016 23:06 (seven years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.
― System, Thursday, 30 June 2016 00:01 (seven years ago) link
video games are the best sport
you can tell by the way all the top pros retire by their mid-twenties
― El Tomboto, Thursday, 30 June 2016 00:13 (seven years ago) link
UFC
― brimstead, Thursday, 30 June 2016 00:23 (seven years ago) link
"Baseball is a thinking man's game." -my little league coach
― flappy bird, Thursday, 30 June 2016 05:37 (seven years ago) link
college basketball
― Jeff, Thursday, 30 June 2016 10:30 (seven years ago) link
ewww ew no
― moistest hoist (Spottie), Thursday, 30 June 2016 16:01 (seven years ago) link
it's gotten worse every year since 2004
baseball followed by fucking your mom
― ejemplo (crüt), Thursday, 30 June 2016 16:08 (seven years ago) link
― Daithi Bowsie (darraghmac), Monday, June 20, 2016 10:51 PM (1 week ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― jason waterfalls (gbx), Thursday, 30 June 2016 16:36 (seven years ago) link
can we make a thread for best playing area term? I have:
tablepitchfieldcoursediamondsheetfrontoncourttrack
― El Tomboto, Thursday, 30 June 2016 16:39 (seven years ago) link
board
― Le Bateau Ivre, Thursday, 30 June 2016 16:40 (seven years ago) link
cloth
― Le Bateau Ivre, Thursday, 30 June 2016 16:41 (seven years ago) link
um hello OCTAGON
― brimstead, Thursday, 30 June 2016 19:32 (seven years ago) link
technically, the diamond is just the infield and the whole playing area is a baseball field.
― a little too mature to be cute (Aimless), Thursday, 30 June 2016 19:39 (seven years ago) link
best sports: urban bocce, shirling.
― sam jax sax jam (Jordan), Thursday, 30 June 2016 19:48 (seven years ago) link
calcio storico
― cozen, Thursday, 30 June 2016 19:58 (seven years ago) link
^^^ yess!!
― brimstead, Thursday, 30 June 2016 19:58 (seven years ago) link
bandy
― mizzell, Thursday, 30 June 2016 20:05 (seven years ago) link
mom
― riverine (map), Thursday, 30 June 2016 20:17 (seven years ago) link
baseball > goal sports > net sports > golf
― pleas to Nietzsche (WilliamC), Thursday, 30 June 2016 20:26 (seven years ago) link
The best sport is freestyle sport
― Camaraderie at Arms Length, Thursday, 30 June 2016 20:37 (seven years ago) link
no mentions for hacky sack?
― a little too mature to be cute (Aimless), Thursday, 30 June 2016 20:38 (seven years ago) link
Frisbee golf?
fox tossing
― brimstead, Thursday, 30 June 2016 20:41 (seven years ago) link
watermelon seed spitting
― a little too mature to be cute (Aimless), Thursday, 30 June 2016 20:45 (seven years ago) link
In year 10, two boys from my class went to America and returned with two hundred hacky sacks which were then sold to the entire school and it took off in a big way. There is still a sect of proficient hacky sackers floating around East Sussex to this day.
― It certainly is punk of the Church of England to think that way (tangenttangent), Thursday, 30 June 2016 20:49 (seven years ago) link
Conkers
Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.
― System, Friday, 1 July 2016 00:01 (seven years ago) link
A win!
― It certainly is punk of the Church of England to think that way (tangenttangent), Friday, 1 July 2016 00:03 (seven years ago) link
madness
― rmde bob (will), Friday, 1 July 2016 00:35 (seven years ago) link
:D
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Friday, 1 July 2016 08:10 (seven years ago) link
http://www.biggestglobalsports.com/
― niels, Wednesday, 14 September 2016 09:35 (seven years ago) link
Still hurling
― poor fiddy-less albion (darraghmac), Wednesday, 14 September 2016 09:50 (seven years ago) link
Poor ultimate frisbee.
― Hey Bob (Scik Mouthy), Wednesday, 14 September 2016 10:52 (seven years ago) link
Thread titles prove that hockey is the best
― 8 Whisps (Myonga Vön Bontee), Wednesday, 14 September 2016 13:36 (seven years ago) link
the thread question was actually which is not the best sport
and so evidence suggests that clearly hockey is the preferred and superior sport
― F♯ A♯ (∞), Wednesday, 14 September 2016 17:24 (seven years ago) link