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Any other hockey fans out there?

Posted: Thu Sep 29, 2011 11:19 pm
by Seth
As you can tell I'm a pretty big hockey fan.
anyone else?
just wondering.

Re: The Sports Thread

Posted: Thu Sep 29, 2011 11:48 pm
by Kitela
Yeah, Ice Hockey is the sport that I find most interesting, but I'm not that into sports in general.

I like to bowl every now and then and have a good average. I'm not that into the sport, and I usually just hang out with a friend or two and bowl a couple games at the ally.

Re: The Sports Thread

Posted: Fri Sep 30, 2011 12:13 am
by Sleet
I've been to hockey games before and it's fun, but I'm not a big fan of watching it on TV.

Also, Cardinals win the wildcard! Wooooo!

Re: The Sports Thread

Posted: Fri Sep 30, 2011 12:23 am
by Seth
Sleet wrote:I've been to hockey games before and it's fun, but I'm not a big fan of watching it on TV.

Also, Cardinals win the wildcard! Wooooo!
that finish was INSANE
Go tigers!!!!

Re: The Sports Thread

Posted: Fri Sep 30, 2011 2:43 pm
by CaptainPea
Sleet wrote:I've been to hockey games before and it's fun, but I'm not a big fan of watching it on TV.

Also, Cardinals win the wildcard! Wooooo!
Orioles bumped the Red Sox out of wildcard position! Which is the most they could've hoped to accomplish, really.

Re: The Sports Thread

Posted: Fri Sep 30, 2011 2:47 pm
by Sleet
I have no complaints about that. Good work, Orioles!

Re: The Sports Thread

Posted: Fri Sep 30, 2011 2:49 pm
by Seth
I've been a Yankees fan since I was about 7(when I relaized Jeter grew up about 90 minutes from my hometown) so it was pretty cool to see the Sox get bumped.

Re: The Sports Thread

Posted: Fri Sep 30, 2011 2:52 pm
by Sleet
I'm pretty ambivalent towards the Yankees, but my opinion of the Red Sox is more negative than positive so I'm happy about this.

Re: The Sports Thread

Posted: Sun Oct 09, 2011 5:41 am
by Onlythebassist
I'm a huge fan of sports and athletisism in general :D Basketball, American football, a bit of free running and skateboarding comprise my sports of choice, but I'm decent at athletics and can give essentially any other sport a fair knock.

In terms of teams, I've been a Dallas Mavericks fan for two years (no glory seeker comments please, I liked them before the Playoff victory ;) ) and don't really have a football team I follow as of yet.

Favourite sports personalities would be Dirk Nowitzki (basketball), Kevin Garnett (basketball), Danny Way (skateboarding) and Bob Burnquist (skateboarding).

GO MAVS! :3

Re: The Sports Thread

Posted: Sat Oct 29, 2011 1:02 pm
by CaptainPea
Sleet beat Housefox in the World Series!
As unattached as I am, I was still kind of hoping Texas could win since they never have. But it still wasn't the Red Sox or Yankees, so at least we've got some variety.

Do any baseball aficionados know when the last time was that a wildcard team won?

Re: The Sports Thread

Posted: Sat Oct 29, 2011 1:06 pm
by Blue Braixen
That was the second time in a row that the Rangers have gone to the World Series and lost. x3
Good job, ol' St. Louis.

Re: The Sports Thread

Posted: Sat Oct 29, 2011 1:07 pm
by Seth
Woo, go Cards!

Re: The Sports Thread

Posted: Sun Oct 30, 2011 1:36 am
by Sleet
I'm happy we won. Number eleven, baby! :D

Re: The Sports Thread

Posted: Sun Oct 30, 2011 2:05 am
by Jesse James
looooooool esports.

I guess I personally like watching almost every sport imaginable. (Cricket, Football, Soccar, Baseball, Hockey, Basketball, Tennis, Gridiron etc... But not Netball. :|)

Unfortunately I don't like playing the sports as much. Well, I used to like playing sports, but mostly Basketball.

Let's see, last sporting event I watched was the Rugby World Cup, which was really disappointing imo.

Eh, I feel like watching TV now.

Re: The Sports Thread

Posted: Sun Oct 30, 2011 3:37 am
by Tiggy
Jesse James wrote:looooooool esports.

Whats wrong with Esports?:V

Re: The Sports Thread

Posted: Sun Oct 30, 2011 4:11 am
by Sleet
Not really anything. They're both watching people much better than you play games for very high stakes.

That said, I don't really like esports. Just personal preference; I have no disrespect for those who do.

Re: The Sports Thread

Posted: Sun Oct 30, 2011 4:35 am
by Jesse James
Tiggy wrote:
Jesse James wrote:looooooool esports.

Whats wrong with Esports?:V
Nothing, in fact, I'm a huge video game fan, I just never heard it considered it a sport before. :3

Re: The Sports Thread

Posted: Sun Oct 30, 2011 5:01 am
by Tiggy
Jesse James wrote:
Tiggy wrote:
Jesse James wrote:looooooool esports.

Whats wrong with Esports?:V
Nothing, in fact, I'm a huge video game fan, I just never heard it considered it a sport before. :3
Oh, okay. Well, there are a lot of jocks and stuff that hate it when it's called a sport cause lolyou don't physically move around much and stuff.

And E-sports is pretty big! There are a lot of competitions, conventions etc that has big tournaments with super good players and big prize pools!

Re: The Sports Thread

Posted: Sun Oct 30, 2011 3:13 pm
by Sleet
I consider esports more an analog to sports than a subset of them.

Re: The Sports Thread

Posted: Mon Oct 31, 2011 1:07 am
by Seth
Holy jumpin!!
Lions are 6-2 and absolutely Spanked Denver today.
Lions are finally good, oh happy day!!!!!!

Re: The Sports Thread

Posted: Mon Oct 31, 2011 3:58 am
by Tiggy
Sleet wrote:I consider esports more an analog to sports than a subset of them.

Please don't start this again.

I've had enough of talking with brick walls about this ><

Re: The Sports Thread

Posted: Mon Oct 31, 2011 9:37 am
by Sleet
It's just a matter of semantics, you know.

Re: The Sports Thread

Posted: Fri Jul 13, 2012 8:54 am
by Onlythebassist
Well, the London Olympics are pretty close with about a fortnight to go before they commence. Anyone excited about any events in particular? I know I'm looking forward to the basketball, especially Team USA leveling everyone :lol:

Re: The Sports Thread

Posted: Fri Jul 13, 2012 8:58 am
by 0404
Why no more baseball? :cry:
I'm not a huge fan of major leauge but still...

Re: The Sports Thread

Posted: Fri Jul 13, 2012 9:07 am
by McFly
Kinda looking forward to the boxing.

Re: The Sports Thread

Posted: Fri Jul 13, 2012 11:30 am
by CaptainPea
texascat018 wrote:Why no more baseball? :cry:
I'm not a huge fan of major leauge but still...
Maybe there's not enough countries that are interested- but surely there's more countries with an interest in baseball than basketball. That is kind of weird.

Re: The Sports Thread

Posted: Fri Jul 13, 2012 11:39 am
by Cm4F
I love to watch football.
I live in South Carolina and basically right down the street from the USC Campus to, indecently, I'm a Gamecock fan.
Can't wait till fall!!

Re: The Sports Thread

Posted: Sat Jul 14, 2012 5:07 am
by Onlythebassist
CaptainPea wrote:Maybe there's not enough countries that are interested- but surely there's more countries with an interest in baseball than basketball. That is kind of weird.
I'm not sure that's strictly true - basketball is definitely an international sport that has a large presence in every continent. But regardless it is a bit weird that there's no baseball this year considering it had been active for the past few games. Blame our bad British weather :roll:

Also excited to see Bolt breaking the land speed record in my own country

Re: The Sports Thread

Posted: Sat Jul 14, 2012 12:21 pm
by Sleet
I wasn't aware basketball was very big anywhere but USA, China and North Korea. And Baseball in USA, Japan and the Dominican Republic.

Re: The Sports Thread

Posted: Sat Jul 14, 2012 1:57 pm
by Seth
basketball is pretty big in Europe, there's a ton of big men from all over Europe in the NBA.

Re: The Sports Thread

Posted: Sat Jul 14, 2012 2:56 pm
by Onlythebassist
Sleet wrote:I wasn't aware basketball was very big anywhere but USA, China and North Korea. And Baseball in USA, Japan and the Dominican Republic.
Some notable players from around the world are Tony Parker (France), Pau Gasol (Spain), Andrew Bogut (Australia), Luol Deng (UK) and Dirk Nowitzki (Germany). There are teams all over the UK and many of the other European countries, though they usually pale in comparison to the NBA teams. Regardless, it's a very popular sport that has more interest than it is often credited for ;)

Re: The Sports Thread

Posted: Fri Jul 27, 2012 5:18 pm
by 0404
I'm so watching shooting, and soooo convincing my mom to allow me to get my self a air riffle.

I don't know which nation to cheer for, Canada? USA? Pffff USA for sure!

Even my cat injoys watching olympics!

Re: The Sports Thread

Posted: Fri Jul 27, 2012 5:25 pm
by Punchy
texascat018 wrote:Even my cat injoys watching olympics!
Wait, I'm behind on this...I missed the opening ceremony didn't I? Dang...

Re: The Sports Thread

Posted: Fri Jul 27, 2012 5:30 pm
by 0404
Not all of 'em. just go turn on the TV Right Now, still few nations and advertisments left before USA's Appereance
Right, I'm going to watch fencing too!

Re: The Sports Thread

Posted: Fri Jul 27, 2012 5:35 pm
by Punchy
texascat018 wrote:just go turn on the TV Right Now, still few nations and advertisments left before USA's Appereance
Right, I'm going to watch fencing too!
Will do, almost every year I miss the opening. (every year that the olympics happen, that is)

Re: The Sports Thread

Posted: Fri Jul 27, 2012 5:52 pm
by 0404
Everyone is just busy taking picture instead of waving :lol:

Re: The Sports Thread

Posted: Fri Jul 27, 2012 6:05 pm
by Sleet
Ahem...

AMURRICA!

Re: The Sports Thread

Posted: Fri Jul 27, 2012 7:39 pm
by McFly
Sleet wrote:Ahem...

AMURRICA!
Best comment ever.

I'll be rooting for America, as well.

Re: The Sports Thread

Posted: Fri Jul 27, 2012 8:16 pm
by Cm4F
Japan beat Spain in Men's Soccer. Good game!
I'm still looking forward to watching the Gamecocks play in college football (American).

Also, I'm psyched for the 2012 England Olympics!!!!!

Re: The Sports Thread

Posted: Fri Jul 27, 2012 8:22 pm
by Wanderer
Cheering for a few countries :)