Team GB aim to top medal table in Tokyo following record-breaking Rio 2016

iolo said:
I suppose the only thing to be said for baseball is that it isn't cricket - and vice versa! Shame about the sister - some parents, eh! Snooker and its modern variants are the only game for a growing boy (girls have better things to do), and why anyone should play anything but rugby later escapes me. As for soccer, it is just ballet, but less exciting.
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It' s pretty much considered a womans sport in the U.S. and rightfully so. The US Women dominate in international competition.

Unfortunately most men in the U.S. just aren't interested in womens sports.
 
Mott the Hoople said:
No....baseball is the greatest team sport in the world. I already clarified that. Rugby rocks...just don't get stuck at the bottom of a scrum.
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Quite. I myself was a very fast runner, and compared with sweltering in the outfield at cricket it was a good life, until I slowed down!
 
iolo said:
Quite. I myself was a very fast runner, and compared with sweltering in the outfield at cricket it was a good life, until I slowed down!
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Baseball is a great sport because of how it ties families together and connects them. Most team sports you join a club or team and learn from a coach but baseball begins for most as fathers teaching sons how to play.
 
Mott the Hoople said:
Baseball is a great sport because of how it ties families together and connects them. Most team sports you join a club or team and learn from a coach but baseball begins for most as fathers teaching sons how to play.
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I think that is true of most sports, actually.
 
Mott the Hoople said:
Not here it isn't. It's our most popular women's sport. It's hardly on the radar here as a men's sport. If it was we would dominate at it. Lord knows we have the resources.
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You have been trying long enough, you even managed to beat England back in 1950 in the World Cup.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v_England_(1950_FIFA_World_Cup)

iolo said:
I think that is true of most sports, actually.
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Mott the Hoople said:
Not to the same degree.
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How do you know? Most kids learn football, cricket and rugby from their parents and at school. We used to play football on any patch of grass and use jumpers or sweaters as goalposts. You think being good at a sport is all about money. Look at Brazil, most of the legends like Pele came from dirt poor backgrounds in the favelas. They didn't go to college on a sports scholarship, they learnt their skills in the streets and beaches of places like Rio. It does baffle me though why Hispanics aren't more organised in the US, if you want to stop gangbangers a sure fire way would be to have big time football leagues to offer a route out of the barrio.

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Mott the Hoople said:
Not here it isn't. It's our most popular women's sport. It's hardly on the radar here as a men's sport. If it was we would dominate at it. Lord knows we have the resources.
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There is a league here that is actually/finally doing well, a semi-pro(or pro :dunno: ) called sacRepulic & my daughters have gone but I have never gone to a game, yet.. There have been several attempts, including indoor leagues but they have all failed do to lack of interest..

My son played a couple years but my two younger daughters played from 6 to high school...
 
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