Sport

[murf]

If you scratch an Aussie, you would find most are sporting addicts. I'm interested what sports you like to follow. For me: I'm like our previous Prime Minister and am a cricketing tragic. I also like Aussie football, though not enamored by the new rules. But that's another story.

[Dianejt]

Rack-em up   Billiards

[Ang]

as  a  melburnite  my  team  is  the  bombers,  looking  at  your  avatar  being  black  and  white  you  may  just  be  a  magpies  supporter and  yes  i  agree  100% these  new  rules  are  destroying  out  great  game.

if  you  don't  hear  from  richard  mel  for  a week  or  too don't  be  too  bothered  his  beloved  tigers  won  ther  first  game  of  footy  for  the  year and  its  round 10

[okarol]

  Los Angeles Lakers just won the Western Conference - ON TO THE FINALS!

[aharris2]

Congrats OK, now let's hope they crush the life out of the Celtics. Game 1 is Thursday night.

World Cup, coming soon!

[jbeany]

Ummm, none of the above.   

One of my friends met me for a doctor's appointment - I drove 4 hours south; she came 4 hours north.  We were going to spend Sunday night in the motel by the transplant hospital, catching up.  She said she wanted to watch the game, too. 
"What game?" was my query.

"The Super Bowl!" she screeched.

Oh, yeah, I've heard of that one. 

 

I do root for the Redwings, but that's a requirement for living in Michigan.  I don't actually keep track of players or team standings.....around here during hockey season, knowing that the game is on is like knowing what day of the week it is - you just know because it's expected of you.

Nobody around here roots for the Lions anymore.  And the Pistons and the Tigers, well....didn't we sell them to Canada yet?  It's not like Detroit can afford them anymore.

[RichardMEL]

Lol Ang - good memory

Yes, I was actually on Dialysis during the game, and was listening on the radio(the unit does not get fox sports, but I was taping the game at home). Ha ha my pulse went up to 107 by the end of the game and we all had a giggle. Stayed around till the end (even though I had finished my treatment) listening with some of the nurses and had the biggest yell when the siren went - the victory was ours!!!! WOO HOO!!!

hilights: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2NAW-e1SyA&feature=player_embedded
Boys sing the song with gusto: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NZHP8coGMUg&feature=related

Good to have a win given I was at our sponsors night dinner with the team just last Tuesday and it was interesting to hang out with the boys with zero wins.

Anyway yeah I love my aussie rules footy!!! Obviously! I also enjoy cricket. Tennis and golf bore me to tears, and sorry I just don't "get" American football, and soccer has its moments, but I doubt I'll be watching much of the world cup, even the aussie games.

[MooseMom]

My first crush, when I was 8, was on the Houston Astros' Bob Aspromonte.  My mom worked for a bank that had season ticket to this newly formed baseball team, and she and I went often.  Then, my dad got us season tickets to see the Houston Oilers, so for years I spent football season at the Astrodome.  I grew up there!  So, that's MLB and the NFL covered.  When I moved to England, I became a football/soccer fan, but I also enjoyed cricket and rugby.  I got to go to a county match at Lords and saw Surrey play someone I can't remember.  I was always a great fan of tennis, and I was wildly lucky enough to go to Wimbledon quite often and saw three men's finals (one at which Princess Diana attended).  The world stops during Wimbledon fortnight!  But this year is the WORLD CUP in RSA, and I am so psyched I can't stand it...I am so ready.  That first match England v USA...OMG, it's gonna rock!

[murf]

Collingwood? Oh heaven help me. My poor father would be turning in his grave. If I knew how to turn my picture into blue and gold, I would do it. Carn the Eagles. I, like many others, suffer from insomnia so will probably be watching the World Cup in the wee hours. One way to get to sleep.

[Poppylicious]

That first match England v USA...OMG, it's gonna rock!

So, as an American who lived in England for years (I have got that right, haven't I?) who will you be supporting? Obviously England will win that match of course ... 

I'm one of those annoying people who only likes a particular sport when it's in focus.  I like tennis whilst Wimbledon is on, I like football and support England when the World Cup rolls round (although Blokey would like to take me to some football matches next season), I really love darts in January, and if the snooker is being played locally then I really have to get tickets for that too.

Other than that ... pffft. 

[MooseMom]

All I remember about snooker is "Steve 'Interesting' Davis"...

Yes, poppy, I'm an American who lived in England.  I'm gonna have to support the USA against England because I want to see football become more popular here, and a victory over England would do wonders for us.  I expect England to advance out of the first round, anyway.  If the US doesn't advance, I'll be supporting England.  As long as the Germans don't win...

[murf]

MooseMon, Germany is in our (Australia) section and it seems that they have a few injuries. But I still think they would be better than Australia. We hope to advance to the second round like we did four years ago. I remember one glorious day a few years back where we beat England something like 2-0. But England have a got a real chance this time. I love all sorts of sport except tennis. Also, don't understand the rules of gridiron.

[MooseMom]

MooseMon, Germany is in our (Australia) section and it seems that they have a few injuries. But I still think they would be better than Australia. We hope to advance to the second round like we did four years ago. I remember one glorious day a few years back where we beat England something like 2-0. But England have a got a real chance this time. I love all sorts of sport except tennis. Also, don't understand the rules of gridiron.

Murf, I could teach you "gridiron" in 15 minutes.  It's not nearly as complicated as it looks.  It does suffer a bit from being over-lawyered, and there are too many arcane rules, but the game truly is simpler than it appears.

[cariad]

Waaa-aaales! I used to love watching the rugby with Gwyn, especially in Welsh (I love a language challenge). I even learnt one of my favorite Welsh words, which Gwyn had never heard before, watching a match with my mother-in-law there. Awch - can't begin to describe how to pronounce it, but she translated it as 'the thing which you desire'. 

Can't watch them now very often as we would have to add an entire sport package to our television service, and we don't want to spend the cash.

Can't say I follow any team nor player now, except my son's soccer, and it uses the entire sport section of my brain just to remember all of those kids' names. 

[RichardMEL]

I am going to the footy (aussie rules) this Friday Night to see my team play live against the St. Kilda Saints. I've been to the last 11 games in a row since 2004 - and we've lost all of them!!  I think it must be me. Still, my brother and sister who I go with are both maniacal Saints fans, so it's more a family thing. So yet again I will be outnumbered 2-1 as I rock up in my yellow and black gear ready for another shellacking!!!!  GO TIGERS!!!

[Bajanne]

Well, as a West Indian, cricket is taken with our mothers's milk.  I grew up in the heyday of West Indies being the top team in the world, with people like Sir Frank Worrell and Sir Garfield Sobers.   I was trying to find a old calypso telling of us defeating Australia.  I only found this one from the 50's - 'Cricket Lovely Cricket'  - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=06P0RdZyjT4

It is a different story these days  .  Australia kicks our ass, and England gets in some good ones too as well as India......in fact, everyone!  The Windies have fallen and so I have lost a bit of the interest that I was born with.

American 'foot'ball I cannot understand.  But I do like a good basketball game.

[MooseMom]

I live in a really odd place.  It's a nice town to the far west of Chicago, by the Fox River.  It is a weekend tourist destination for many from the big city.  This is a town that is not, shall we say, particularly culturally diverse.  However, there is a decent sized Indian (sub-continent) population in the area, and during the summer, there are local cricket matches played in a park wedged between a huge church and a miniature golf course, across the street from a pancake house.  I've always wanted to go by and watch a match.  It was always such fun when the West Indies played England in international test cricket; the West Indian fans were always so happy!

[murf]

Bajanne, I see that you are from the Virgin Islands. Are there any famous cricketers from there? I am watching the current WI v SA games at the present. Love any sort of cricket. I am old enough to have seen the likes of Wes Hall and Charlie Griffiths. They were awesome. Then of course the great era led by Clive Llood.

[aharris2]

BASKETBALL!!!

Game 5 is about to begin. Go Lakers!

 
Celtics

[aharris2]

(Game 5  )

Game 6 - Swwwishhh!!!!
(or is that squish?)
22 points!

ONE MORE TIME - GO LAKERS!
 
Celtics

[okarol]

(Game 5  )

Game 6 - Swwwishhh!!!!
(or is that squish?)
22 points!

ONE MORE TIME - GO LAKERS!
 
Celtics

  C'mon Lakers!!