Sports: Search and Destroy

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Swamp Buggy Racing!

― Tadeusz Suchodolski, Monday, 9 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Like every other Canadian I was press-ganged into playing hockey from the age of 5. After a few years of this I couldn't take any more. I began to go on an orgy of on-ice hacking and slashing that would've made Bobby Clarke wince, until everyone decided it was better for everyone involved that I quietly give it up, thank fuck.

― tarden, Monday, 9 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Private Boys School, Couldn't skate,Phys ed had a manidotory hockey program
An awkard adolesence made even more akward.

― anthony, Monday, 9 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

search: football (obviously). and not that thing where americans put on helmets and then fall over. the football that is played in EVERY other country in the world.

― gareth, Monday, 9 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Sports: its like the anti Math.

I was always rubbish at all sport except a little bit of long distance (to the chippie) running and skiing. I think my skill in skiing came from the fact that at its heart it is just trying to stand up. As noted on another thread, I rarely fall over.

― Pete, Monday, 9 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Search: cricket, what better way to spend a 5 day weekend, except england ruin this by being crap and loosing in 4 days.

Wrestling for being the nu ballet and nu circus/freak show all rolled into one

all non compettetive outdoor pursuits walking, climbing, canoeing

destroy: rowing training 5 times a week at school (I did win a medal and a pewter tankard though)

― Ed, Monday, 9 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

participating sucks, unless it's the crawl from the couch to the fridge, which is endangered as I saw a chair the other day with an ashtray and a minifridge - that's an invention. Wrestling rocks, car-racing as followed passionately sux, though if followed merely for the crashes and near-death experiences, becomes a classic.

― Geoff, Monday, 9 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Destroy: The lot. But *especially* tennis, but I'm sure you knew that already.

― DG, Monday, 9 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Gareth is of course correct, on both counts. ;-) However, thanks to influence from my dad, I would also search track and field/athletics and cycling (the only time my dad ever got pointlessly mad at me was when I screwed up videotaping LeMond's first victory in the Tour de France). Tennis I follow on my own and I've always appreciated the relative sleepy trance of golf.

― Ned Raggett, Monday, 9 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

My dad spent the whole of yesterday railing against the injustice of a world that takes the Tour de France from Channel 4's pretty good coverage and hides it on Eurosport (he doesn't have Sky / Digital). Poor bloke.

Pete did claim he could run 800m in under 2 minutes but we all laughed so hard we didn't have the energy to test this preposterous claim.

I don't do sport, it is unladylike.

― Emma, Monday, 9 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Thank christ the Tour de Flippin' France is no longer available for terrestrial tedium. Nothing tests a friendship more than living with someone who enjoys inappropriate sport. For which read pretty much anything but football and cricket.

When you bump into a mate down the pub and they say "want to come back for the last session of the snooker" you can feel you have made a mistep in life.

― Pete, Monday, 9 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Search: Rugby (specif. the New Zealand All Blacks' opening dance thingy), Hockey, Hurling, Soccer Chix, Tennis Gurls, Lacrosse, Boxing, Baseball with a twilight double header, tai-chi, Frisbee Golf, Swimming. Cheerleading.

Destroy: Football (american version), televised Golf, professional basketball -- and by extension the zone defense, Sumo, FoxTrax, Curling, Fox Hunting/equestrian/autoracing and any sport that involves something else doing the moving for you... and cricket, probably. Ballroom Dancing and synch. swimming.

― JM, Monday, 9 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

In the destroy column Snooker and bowls. both loved by a housemate of mine two years ago.

― Ed, Monday, 9 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

ed, i think we're talking about sport here. not, like, pastimes and shit

― gareth, Monday, 9 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Search: Rugby League (NRL), one-day cricket, Formula 1 (you unbelieving bastards!), women's beach volleyball (best spectator sport ever!), women's tennis (runner-up best spectator sport), Rugby World Cup, 100m, 200m, heavyweight boxing.

Destroy: "extreme" sports (all painfully dull on TV), esp. skateboarding tossers, all "sports" w/ no objective scoring system, eg. skateboarding, synchronized swimming, dressage - those aren't sports, just people moving about.

― AP, Monday, 9 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Extreme sport which not destroy, thankyou: climbing w/o poofy ropes etc by lithe young chix0r who leap and hang like apes and cd snap yr forearm between their finger and thumb. Also downhill slalom by ditto in bodyhugging alien-insect type clothing. However the "results" of such sports are of no consequence to man nor beast (beast = me)

― mark s, Monday, 9 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Extreme sports are indeed extremely boring. I have a vague recollection of a very odd event in the Xgames which could only be described as world championship getting lost in the desert. Teams of people trailed a big dusty hot place around until they passed out through exhaustion/dehydration/etc. Was this a dream brought on by the extreme tedium of the surrounding BMX/Rollerblading/Skateboarding stuff or was it horribly real?

― Richard Tunnicliffe, Monday, 9 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

People who don't like sport = almost always poofy boys (or girls) who are shit at it. Sport = classic. Full stop.

You need to know that Mansfield are nicknamed the Stags and Germany won the men's double sculls at the 1988 Olympics (did they? I may be wrong) to win on quiz machines, obviously.

I believe that Pete can run 800m in under 2 minutes. Sport is all about boasting even when you're shit. That and mercilessly hacking the shit out of your Shenchenko shirt-wearing, constantly shoulder-dropping, Steve McManaman-loving Liverpool fan friend in a friendly kickabout. Little bastard.

― Greg, Monday, 9 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Ooh, Greg - a bit crude, there.

I love one sport, enjoy another. BUT I think I understand why people 'don't like sport'. It's easy to dislike sport, and once you are, so to speak, on the outside of it, it seems neither easy nor appealing to get back in. One problem that non-sport people have with sport = sporting 'culture'. Naff taste - cliché-fests - gender stereotypes - way excessive pay for top stars - seeming colonization of media schedules / pages. From the outside, sport looks like a pretty bad job. But those of us who are, from one contingency or another, on the inside (ie. are very enthused fans of one or more sports), tend to look at it differently: seeing those bad things but still loving something fundamental about the game in question.

Also, 'bad' things can be good. Greatest pleasure in footy - silly things that commentators say.

― the pinefox, Monday, 9 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Bad things can be good. Isn't "naff taste - cliché-fests - gender stereotypes - seeming colonization of media schedules / pages" what makes good sports so great? (It's also what makes bad sports so bad, though American football is really the only bad sport. You think you foreigners hate American football, try living in America, then you'll really hate it).

― Otis Wheeler, Monday, 9 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Can anyone help me here?

I remember once seeing a trailer for upcoming attractions on SkySports, and among all the usual was a small clip for a game tha looked very much like Volleyball, except it was played much like football i.e. with feet(!).

Now, what I've wanted to now since I saw that brief clip around 2 years ago is whether it was a bizarre hoax, or is actually real. Bear in mind that this clip contained someone doing an overhead kick, over a concrete floor.

― Chewshabadoo, Monday, 9 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

That footie-volley sport is real, tho I can't recall the name - and it is fun to watch! Very fast play, bicyle kicks routinely employed as "spike" moves - ping pong played with feet on a life-size grass table... err... Search: rhythmic gymnastics. Those kids are fucking advanced freak beings, trapping balls lofted 20 feet up in the crook of their ankle whilst twirling ribbons in satanic patterns...

Search: whatever sport you feel affected by. I love sport because I, perhaps erroneously, feel that it is one of the few meritocracies in modern life. There [seem to be] no criteria beyond ability and a willingness to work hard. Which is inspiring. Show me a play, a ballet, a movie, a hero, that draws a crowd of 50,000 a night and works them into such a frenzy of emotion that they jump up and down, scream in delight, clap one another on the back. Sport is a genuine spectacle of conflict and effort; the players are playing for something real; the very object of contention is literalized, manifest as a ball or other thing.

Anyhow, I like baseball. Nothing happens very quickly so you don't really have to pay attention (+), happens in the summer (+), and is predicated on failure (+++) - if a team breaks a .500 winning percentage they're doing well. If a batter hits safely 4 times out of 10 he'd accomplish something that no one's accomplished in over 50 years. Somehow I identify... (says this Red Sockian)

― Tracer Hand, Monday, 9 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Much the same reasoning wg works with cricket except it lasts longer and having the ball bounce gives a whole other dimesion to the game. I marvel at the things soem bowlers can get the ball to do and how batsmen can get to it. I went to a New York Yankees game when i was 9 and that was so much fun I don't think I'd have enjoyed a test when I was nine but maybe a onedayer.

― Ed, Monday, 9 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

There simply isn't a single sport that interests me. I'd rather read a good book.

― DG, Monday, 9 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

DG: Curmudgeon or Wicked Smart?

― Dan Perry, Monday, 9 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

destroy motor sport? does it not do a good enough job of self destruction on its own!

Search:Any recent English cricket win....rare enough for even DG not to moan!

― Fat Nick, Monday, 9 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Hmmm, I like Cricket best, it's great to see a sport where they get to wear jumpers, have breaks for lunch and tea, don't play if it's raining...Plus, it's pretty easy to get into, and a great way to waste a summers day...though I know some cricket mad guys and they were following a one day match on Ceefax, which I have to admit was boring. Football for the rest of the year, though I support Tottenham, so it's never that much fun. Also, Darts is quite cool, Ted Hankey rules. Wrestling is good to watch on a saturday morning, though this WWF vs. WCW angle is annoying, bring back the Rock!...Rugby is okay to watch now and again.

Just realised I've only talked about watching sports, so that just goes to prove how unsporting I am, always hated PE at school, would only play football, dreaded the summer when we had to do atheletics (running around the field and getting a stitch)...So my destroy is Athletics...

― james e l, Monday, 9 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Search: Tennis - erm, I find it pretty exciting, especially today, and it has a nice atmosphere. Snooker: Strangely addictive when on TV. Darts: Oh come on, everybody likes darts! Golf: No longer the preserve of rich bad-jumper wearing old men, good if you hit a nice shot, the worst sport in the world ever if you don't.

Destroy: Football: It has taken over the world and it is a worse place for it. Rugby: Anyone who likes it has obviously never played the damn game.

Bill

― Bill, Monday, 9 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

England's cricket team did beat Zimbabwe, West Indies, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka...so they have won 4 of their last 5 series, though the current one is looking too good!

― james e l, Monday, 9 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

there's a missing "not" in my last post, a Freudian slip, if only the current series was going too well!

― james e l, Monday, 9 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

What is with the WWF/WCW thing. I watched wrestluing again for the first time in ages and all of these 'WCW Stars' were beinmg a bit tedious and running around disrupting thing. I presume its because WWF has bought WCW and they're just workin g to integrate the two. However it might mean that Hulk Hogan (ancient styeroid freak that he is) returns to the WWF and get amusingly flattened

Now I'm embaressed for knowing far too much about wrestling

― Ed, Monday, 9 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Be quiet, (Fat)Nick. For the folks at home, he's my 'orrid little brother. Ignore him, he's evil.
To answer the question, DG = wicked smart. Look, I got bullied at school precisely *because* I'd rather read a good book. Even at grammar schools, social groups revolve around football.

― DG, Monday, 9 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

A crowd of 50,000 a night and works them into such a frenzy of emotion that they jump up and down, scream in delight, clap one another on the back.

That's my reason for not being a sports fan right there. I just don't understand why anyone cares that much. Perhaps it's because I'm dead inside.

― Graham, Monday, 9 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Or you're sane.

― DG, Tuesday, 10 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

But it happens. And it works for them. Sport is more successful, in popular terms, than any play, any dance, any political protest, any event that requires the presence of a crowd. Its drama may be of a "lower" order than Othello, and is certainly less relevant than the contest between, say, the WTO and its enemies. But single-mindedly pursuing a goal day-in-day-out is compelling, especially if the rules are clear and bribes outlawed. I do like to imagine late-nite AM radio call-in shows debating the merits of Annan v. Boutrous-Ghali; crucial slip-ups at Question Time that could spell trouble for the latter half of the season; looking at Blair's numbers and demanding that he be traded. But until we get some teams that play together, put clubhouse hairsplitting behind them, and dedicate themselves to their task, we'll be stuck with uninteresting dramas on stage and screen, and political seasons with no one to root for.

― Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 11 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

What Tracer just said, though I don't think liking sports needs to be justified at all. I think golf is shit and Tiger Woods can just go die for all I care, I feel totally manipulated by the NBA, I find people who are really into college sports kind of frightening (college football in particular; the college hoops tournament is way cool), and I don't care much about olympic type sports. Other than that, baseball is probably my favorite sport both to play and watch. I really like all sports where physical combat is involved (boxing, mixed martial arts, wrestling amateur and pro -- though pro wrestling is less a sport than an outlandish, serialized broadway production presented by an eccentric billionaire with a bizarre male-physique fetish (Vince McMahon actually tried to start a bodybuilding league in the early nineties!)...it wasn't always like it is now, folks -- and thank god for progress). I love American football because it's the most like war of all the major sports...the coaches get a week to design all these outlandish schemes for the grunts to carry out so it's the one physical sport where tactical genius and teamwork actually means something. Classic - '80's ESPN, where late nights they used to fill out their schedule with shit like tractor pulling, lumberjack competitions, mudbog racing, indoor lacrosse, and Australian Rules football...probably the greatest insomniac programming ever. Dud: current ESPN, where they just show Sportscenter over and over again.

― Kris, Wednesday, 11 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Search: Baseball, because I just got ejected from a game. I am SOOO pleased with myself.

Destroy: Fucking soccer.

― Ally, Wednesday, 11 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

The exact opposite of what my namesake just said.

― Ally C, Wednesday, 11 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

When was the last time YOUR company sponsored interleague soccer and you got kicked out of a game for inuring an umpire on purpose and then went out wicked drinking, hmmmmmm, name stealer?

― Ally, Wednesday, 11 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Umpires are good people, you should not injure them. I used to be an umpire.

Classic - '80's ESPN, where late nights they used to fill out their schedule with shit like tractor pulling, lumberjack competitions, mudbog racing, indoor lacrosse, and Australian Rules football

Aside from the lacrosse, this describes my brother's life to a T.

― Otis Wheeler, Thursday, 12 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

ECW is back!!! Tommy Dreamer! Taz! The Dudley Boys!! Mike Awesome! Justin Credible! Rob Van Dam! EXTREME is BACK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 12 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Ally96 goes way back. There's only one Name-Stealer around here.

― the pinefox, Thursday, 12 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Wheeler, if you were my umpire, I wouldn't accidentallyonpurpose throw a bat at you. I'd smash you in the head with it, you name- callin' bastard.

― Ally, Thursday, 12 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I would eject you before you ever got hold of a bat.

― Otis Wheeler, Thursday, 12 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

You can't just randomly eject someone, jesus.

― Ally, Thursday, 12 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Jinx!

― David Raposa, Thursday, 12 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Search: Baseball, because I just got ejected from a game. I am SOOO pleased with myself.
Destroy: Fucking soccer.

-- Ally (garance8...), July 11th, 2001.

Ha ha!

To play:

Search: soccer(!), tennis, baseball, softball, squash, sailing, fishing, skiing

Destroy: racquetball, golf, equitation, swimming, motorboating, jet skiing, water skiing, scuba diving, running (really anything aerobic that has no equipment)

Oh what am I saying. I like all sports any I will play any sport. I am a sporting fule!

― felicity (felicity), Friday, 25 April 2003 14:12 (twenty-two years ago)

Football is first always. I love sumo wrestling (and WWF as well, but I don't suppose we can call it sport). Table tennis. I watched a lot of basketball, but my interest has waned since Michael's Chicago retirement. I watch rugby (union or league), cricket and tennis occasionally.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Friday, 25 April 2003 16:51 (twenty-two years ago)

Search: Teams from the Chicago area [Bulls, Bears, Cubs, Blackhawks, White Sox, Fire, DePaul, Univ.Illinois, Northwestern, Loyola, Univ.Illinois-Chicago]

Destroy: Teams from the New York area [Mets, Yankees, Knicks, Giants, Jets, Metro-Stars, St.Johns, Columbia, Long Island University] ... and Notre Dame

― phil-two (phil-two), Saturday, 26 April 2003 04:40 (twenty-two years ago)

Also:

Search: Cute New Zealand bowlers named Daniel Vettori:
http://www.rediff.com/cricket/2002/sep/23vet.jpg

Destrory: The rest of cricket.

― phil-two (phil-two), Saturday, 26 April 2003 04:44 (twenty-two years ago)

the text 'calvinball' was not found.

― Millar (Millar), Saturday, 26 April 2003 05:15 (twenty-two years ago)

watching so many sports the last few days! got some t.v. package via PS4 and boy oh boy it was kind of a great time to do so.

watched: swimming trials, triathlon in sweden, formula one electric race in london, tour de france, wimbledon, funny car/stock drag races, nascar, france -vs- iceland soccer, MLB at Fort Bragg last night...

and probably other stuff too.

it all looks so pretty.

it's a novelty. haven't had cable for years.

― scott seward, Monday, 4 July 2016 15:42 (nine years ago)

Jesus sports is great wha

― fake pato is kind of racist, dude (darraghmac), Friday, 17 November 2017 18:30 (eight years ago)

Watching, participating, analysing, discussing, reading, pondering

I mean fuck how good is sports tho rly

― fake pato is kind of racist, dude (darraghmac), Friday, 17 November 2017 18:32 (eight years ago)

Statements, which is more true

Sport channels aggression positively and saves society from potential violence

Sport is a net cause of aggression and increases violence within society

Sport is human activity and human activity contains the potential for amplification of all human traits including aggression. If sports weren't the obvious conduit then another activity would turn into a charnel house, karaoke murders would become a thing or something

― fake pato is kind of racist, dude (darraghmac), Friday, 17 November 2017 18:36 (eight years ago)

lol probably the latter tbh

― Οὖτις, Friday, 17 November 2017 18:37 (eight years ago)

I veer that way myself alright

― fake pato is kind of racist, dude (darraghmac), Friday, 17 November 2017 18:39 (eight years ago)

(non-participatory) sports are a deeply exploitative caricature of late capitalism and misallocation of resources

i still like most of 'em

― mookieproof, Friday, 17 November 2017 18:44 (eight years ago)

Wait what are non participatory sports
Oh wait is that just noncompetitive

― fake pato is kind of racist, dude (darraghmac), Friday, 17 November 2017 18:44 (eight years ago)

sport is innate in all human beings but technology and modern life has crippled us into being sedentary

― i n f i n i t y (∞), Friday, 17 November 2017 18:46 (eight years ago)

A hip high tackle from a fella nicknamed tyson actually crippled me into being sedentary

― fake pato is kind of racist, dude (darraghmac), Friday, 17 November 2017 18:47 (eight years ago)

Nicknamed tyson ffs. You'd think I'd have fucking seen that one coming.

― fake pato is kind of racist, dude (darraghmac), Friday, 17 November 2017 18:47 (eight years ago)

i have nothing bad to say about sports where you personally score a goal ffs

― mookieproof, Friday, 17 November 2017 18:47 (eight years ago)

dmac

i kno u hate philosophy but one of my favourite philosophy profs talked about how sport can explain a lot of philosophical concepts quite nicely

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophy_of_sport

― i n f i n i t y (∞), Friday, 17 November 2017 18:48 (eight years ago)

shit dmac sorry to hear

kinda feeling myself being crippled but due to old age

the body doesn't move like it used to

― i n f i n i t y (∞), Friday, 17 November 2017 18:49 (eight years ago)

i'm guessing that at least half of my dreams involve me playing various sports, generally either really well or really badly

it's ripe for metaphor

― mookieproof, Friday, 17 November 2017 18:50 (eight years ago)

Few and far between since tyson unforch

I don't know if I disagree about the noncompetitive tbh.

I play a good bit but have always hated the guys who put the serious consequences faces on about an oddnumbers stagger about a field on a Sunday morning

Watching sport at a high level would definitely lose a lot without that edge though

And is there an argument that competitive sport teaches kids how to lose (every competitive activity produces more losers than winners so it's a life skill worth having)

― fake pato is kind of racist, dude (darraghmac), Friday, 17 November 2017 18:51 (eight years ago)

xp I will read that also I'm not actually crippled I just don't score as many goals ffs

― fake pato is kind of racist, dude (darraghmac), Friday, 17 November 2017 18:51 (eight years ago)

since i got that pain in my balls due to a strained groin my body in general has started feeling weird little shots of pain everywhere

slowly getting back at it has actually helped

― i n f i n i t y (∞), Friday, 17 November 2017 18:54 (eight years ago)

have always hated the guys who put the serious consequences faces

tru

― mookieproof, Friday, 17 November 2017 18:55 (eight years ago)

as I narrow down the things in life that have genuine meaning I find sports to be tenacious

― imago, Friday, 17 November 2017 18:56 (eight years ago)

that's how a groin strain feels like too

― i n f i n i t y (∞), Friday, 17 November 2017 18:58 (eight years ago)

Nobody will believe this but when Tyson took me out he actually shouted 'for the parish!'

― fake pato is kind of racist, dude (darraghmac), Friday, 17 November 2017 18:59 (eight years ago)

can't believe you got knocked out by a Tyson tbh

― i n f i n i t y (∞), Friday, 17 November 2017 19:01 (eight years ago)

u shd write a short novel abt the galway fives community. add that to lg's nultations and my own ahem second novel harrumph which might be somewhat about sport aaachoo and we have ourselves a miniature movement idk think about it sall

― imago, Friday, 17 November 2017 19:02 (eight years ago)

Sport is human activity and human activity contains the potential for amplification of all human traits including aggression. If sports weren't the obvious conduit then another activity would turn into a charnel house, karaoke murders would become a thing or something

Sorry, I know this is all 30 minutes ago and not even the subject of the thread but damn:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Way_killings

― the Hannah Montana of the Korean War (DJP), Friday, 17 November 2017 19:03 (eight years ago)

(i) I knew someone would
(ii) I knew that someone would be you

― fake pato is kind of racist, dude (darraghmac), Friday, 17 November 2017 19:45 (eight years ago)