From: "Robert Comer" 

> It did start me thinking.  The USA doesn't play any of the global sports,
> and no one else plays the USA's local sports.  A generalisation, but
> largely
> true.  Any attempt to make golf or tennis into a team sport will be
> ridiculed.

Could have fooled me, baseball is huge in a lot of places, as well as basketball.

Golf are international and always have been, we weren't the first to play them.

As for not playing global sports, we sure do -- just because the men's
soccer team is crappy doesn't mean they aren't there, and the women's team
has been very successful.  We do a lot of other intl sports as well...

> Maybe the USA should take up football, handball, cricket, etc., at a
> national level.

We do football at the national level (we call it soccer, of course) and we
play handball quite extensive.  As for cricket, no thanks.

>Or would the pain of not being Top Dog every time be too
> much to bear?

Your anti-American is showing heavily here -- you should do a lot more
research on what sports we do play and don't excel at the intl level...

--
Bob Comer





"Phil Payne"  wrote in
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> After that piece of bullshit earlier this week about England being
> finished,
> I started musing.  We are, of course, just about to enter the World Cup.
> Unlike the World Series, this really is a global competition.
>
> http://fifaworldcup.yahoo.com/06/en/w/team/index.html
>
> Walking back from the shops in Woodhouse this lunchtime, I counted 39 St
> George's flags, not including the bunting and decorations on the pubs.
> It's
> ephemeral, of course - the day we get knocked out the flags will
> mysteriously disappear.  But for the moment, England stands united behind
> a
> bunch of overpaid prima donnas who kick an inflated pig's bladder about.
>
> It did start me thinking.  The USA doesn't play any of the global sports,
> and no one else plays the USA's local sports.  A generalisation, but
> largely
> true.  Any attempt to make golf or tennis into a team sport will be
> ridiculed.
>
> In most of these competitions, we fail.  Only to be expected, given the
> number and quality of the opposing teams.  Every know and then, as is
> statistically inevitable, we win.  Teaches us humility.
>
> Maybe the USA should take up football, handball, cricket, etc., at a
> national level.  Or would the pain of not being Top Dog every time be too
> much to bear?
>
> --
>  Phil Payne
>  http://www.isham-research.co.uk
>  +44 7833 654 800
>
>

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