Soccer, Sports and Politics - Part Deux

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— Las Vegas Athletics (@VegasAsBall) February 22, 2024

 

I wasn't within spitting distance of the USISL.

 

ESPN ranked sports by degree of difficulty. Gotta put pole vaulting, figure skating & ski jumping higher IMO

ESPN ranked the degree of difficulty for 60 different sports from hardest to easiest.

Do you agree with the list? pic.twitter.com/t0skQ2NA7c

— DraftKings (@DraftKings) June 4, 2023

 

Legia Warsaw's SG was banned by UEFA, so...



...they bought tickets on the other side of the stadium.

 

That list should be inverted, for the most part. Horse racing is way harder than basketball.

 

It's awfully hard to beat a horse for 2 minutes straight.

 

Good Guys in red white and blue won today as Rangers beat Devils 5-1

 

Where are the majors? I don't see gridiron, basketball or baseball. What's the point of such a ranking if the bigs aren't included?

 

Auto racing is a sport? Cheerleading? Skateboarding? I mean, I'm as big a fam of the bowl riders as there is --the element of danger is there-- but no sport shoukd be adjudicated. I can definitely accept DH longboarding as a potential Olympic sport but the little snots think they're too cool for conventions. F them.

 

They have the fear factor as a category so surfing Jaws or jumping a board off one of those 100 foot ramps would have to be 10. Stamina of staying underwater for 2-3 waves would be key to survival too.

 

Agree. Ice hockey #2? lol There is also not much argument for football to be ahead of rugby. Max 10 minutes of playing time per game for even the most used American footballers on a team, and nearly half of players never have to tackle anyone in their life.

Also, curling gets a 2.5 for strength? Clearly never watched the sport or even seen the arms of a curler. They are literally melting the ice with a broom. I'd say that takes more strength than ping-pong.

 

Wait, they didn't include darts? Clearly performing at a high level after 4 pints of beer wasn't a category. But then why is bowling there?

 

Ski-jumping isn't on the list either.

 

It is actually. Just barely in the top half of the list. That's too high, IMO, as fear factor is pretty much all that sport has. And even the fear factor isn't as high as just regular (downhill) skiing.

 

I'm still rrying to figure out where the big sports are listed.

 

It also has the agony of a da feet & broken bones

 

There was a viral post a few months ago that said something like, "they should have one novice in each Olympic event so that we can see how hard these sports really are." I know for a fact that if they chose me, I could do a Downhill event (or even Giant Slalom). Slowly, of course, but I'd finish.

It would take quite a few drinks to convince me to try a 100 meter jump.

 

I'm surprised that being a Bass player isn't listed. Try running with one of those thru rush hour traffic!

 

It was tougher before someone designed an endpin wheel to roll them around. I'd provide a link, but I'm on my phone.

 

True. I stood at the top of a Olympics ski jump before and I had no inclination to go down. I wouldn't even want to do down that ramp crawling on my hands and knees, much less with skis on. But I am assuming the list is speaking about how difficult it is to get pretty good or decent at a sport. Otherwise, why would basketball be #4? Even a 5-year-old can pick up a ball and bounce it.

 

Water Polo should be higher.

Also, diving is not harder than swimming

 

It's my understanding that water polo is really poorly officiated. They grab each other by the nuts underwater. They need a scuba ref under water to call fouks by pulling a sinker. A separate official coukd watch the sinker and blow a whistle when it disappeared below the surface.