Entertainment For Lively Minds
As an alternative to listening to music, what's your sport of choice?
Posted by Mousey on 15 October 2009 - 8:15am.
Here's my top 3
1. Test cricket
2. Rugby Union as long as the All Blacks are playing
3. Selected contests of international or top level significance eg Olympic 1500m, tennis open finals etc
And as a corollary, my top 3 turn-offs are
1. Yachting/sailing
2. Golf
3. Boxing/wrestling
I'm assuming couch potato behaviour here, ie most of us are listeners/observers/commentators rather than doers/active participants. Having said that I'm a working composer musician but my physical activity is limited to my morning walk (listening to music and podcasts of course).
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On T.V.
You can't beat Sychronised Swimming and Gymnastics.
Joking apart, I'm not remotely interested in sport, but I love swimming and walking. Does that count ?
I'm like a dog
if it involves chasing a ball around I'll do it - or watch it.
They don't swap shirts at the end but
I'm getting quite into watching netball.
alternative to music
i think it's on espn or bravo, but pro bull riding frm the states is strangely hypnotic
My sports of choice are:
1. Football- especially Football Manager and Pro Evolution Soccer/Fifa.
2. Tennis/Cricket/Snooker- when the "major! tournaments (Wimbledon/Ashes/World Championship) are on.
I love sport
but especially football love live premiership football and can't wait for the world cup
also love twenty twenty cricket this current champions league is marvellous
also love watching tennis and snooker strangely hypnotic
not so keen on golf or American sports like basketball
Rugby and Athletics
The only thing I can summon the strength to watch, and even then I'm probably doing something else as well.
I'm a do-er. I have to cycle everywhere as I can't afford a car right now, I go running occasionally and I swim 3 times a week (about 80 lengths a time).
When the new squash league starts up at the leisure centre in December I will be in attendance.
I'm attempting a pre-emptive strike on the middle-aged spread. If I don't gain any then I won't have to burn it off again. Flawless logic, yes?
I thought
everyone here was a mad obsessed Premier League type afficionado
Pfft... dreadful, crude, working-class game
:-)
I suspect I may be the only member of the Massive to choose this
Cycling.
A few beers and six hours in front of the telly watching some other poor buggers pedal their way up a few Alps. Superb.
As TV viewing...
definitely a favourite. I've been an avid TdF viewer since Channel 4 started showing it years ago.
Cricket
Glad you said 'test cricket', there's nothing better.
Problem with the various pyjama forms of the game is not the game itself, which can be great to watch, but the endless parade of matches and interchangeable, meaningless competitions. After a while, frankly, who could care less. Certainly not the players...
Not neccessarily in this order but
England Cricket Test Team
New york Yankees Baseballl Team
The very mighty Dagenham and Redbridge FC
Pretty much anything..
Apart from the nags.
Big faves?
Major golf tournaments.. The Masters and The Open especially. I always go to The Open.
International rugby. Particularly the six nations.
Champions League footy
Downhill skiing. The Lauberhorn is a must-watch. Before smarty-arse types point out that all skiing is downhill, there is cross-country nordic skiing which goes up and down. There are four Alpine disciplines: downhill, slalom, giant slalom and super-giant slalom. Downhill is the most exciting.
Tennis. All of it.
Used to be footy 100%
but I agree with the cycling post. Darts and snooker take some beating. Being a Magpies (NUFC) fan I find I'm seeing them more on the telly now we've been relegated, than last season. That's not a plus point. I always used to like 'Indoor League' with Freddie Truman though, sitting watching arm wrestling and shove ha'penny at me Granny's eating Heinz beans with sausages on toast. I also used to watch "The Wrestling" on World of Sport with me Grandad, Kent Walton commentating, youse young 'uns don't know what it is to...zzzzzzzzzz what? time for me pills already nurse?
Indoor League
I have a DVD compilation of the show on my desk as I type!
I remembered it as being filmed in assorted grotty pubs and working mens clubs but, in fact, it was filmed on a set in the ballroom of the Queen's Hotel, Leeds.
"Ah'll sithee"
OK here goes
Cricket: Any version it's all great
Football: As above
Darts: On Sky, with Sid Waddell and those crowds, oh how I love a darts crowd.
Hockey Nut
(Ice) Hockey
Football
Cricket
Sport - it's not just on TV
Watching :
Football, some rugby, some NFL, some golf. I don't follow any of them in great detail, but I do enjoy them when I get the chance, especially the Majors.
Participating :
This year, all the familia Malo have taken up Aikido, which is doing us the world of good - Señora Malo and the Señoritas go to the dojo more frequently than I do, but I'm still managing once a week.
And I've bought a second-hand set of golf clubs which I took to the driving range last week and had a lot of fun with.