Posted on 09/11/2019 1:06:38 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Today we are going to take a look at the top 10 most popular sports in the world. But before we do that it is important to know the importance of sports and criteria that should be used to make a ranking of sports.
Sports play an important role in our lives. From early childhood years where we take sports very seriously to the later years in life where we consider it as a hobby, fitness ritual, and sometimes even a profession. Today in every part of the world some sport is passionately followed. People take their sporting heroes as their role models and often have an emotional attachment with their favourite sports stars and sports teams. People in different regions of the world have different favourite sports. This makes ranking sports quite a challenging and difficult job. This is exactly why it is hard to ascertain the reliability and accuracy of different sports lists out there.
Here, it is important to know exactly what do we mean by most popular sports. The word “popular” could mean “most-watched sports,” “most played sports,” or “most revenue-generating sports”. But in all honesty, it would be unfair to rank the sports by popularity, if we take just one or two criteria. Therefore, we have decided to use 15 different criteria in order to rank the most popular sports in the world.
Criteria Used for Ranking:
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Hockey is a very expensive sport to play. It’s really become a sport for wealthy suburbanites.
My favorites (FWIW) are lacrosse, handball and arena football.
If you wanna watch a sport the US could really kick a lot of butt in, watch handball. It’s fast paces and high scoring. But there very little in the way of youth or feeder leagues in the US.
I dunno. That graphic I posted there shows a Russian floating a magnificent saucer pass to an American who scores the goal. The game was played in New York. LOL.
Don’t cricket matches last for days?
And there is strategy involved as well. If the other team can’t seem to get your team out, you can choose to stop batting—because if they can’t get in their innings before darkness or rain—the game ends as a tie. England may have lost the Ashes because rain interrupted a game they were winning against Australia.
The World’s 3 Most Popular Sports:
1) Soccer
2) Cricket
3) Kicking out the British
Gender equity in CRICKET!!!!! LOLOLOLOLOLOL
um, no ..... and it’s #2
Think about that. You basically have to bat for a period of several hours, without making one mistake. That's like asking Mike Trout to see a hundred pitches, without swinging and missing once, or hitting a fly ball that is caught.
"Hey, Oog ... if we can't beat them, just put down the mastodon bone and don't bat anymore. It'll get dark in a while, so the game will end in a tie."
And in Cricket, if you are hit by a pitch, you’re out! (Leg Before Wicket)
What about dirt diving https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=x0wStk_WTQA
I’ll stick with ice hockey.
Correct. Go Stars!
It’s our year!
And getting up at 3 am for rink time!
Years ago, Minnesota HS hockey was dominated by the rural schools up north. In the 60’s the suburban schools started building ice rinks. Since then the better teams are usually from the suburbs with the money for ice time, summer clinics, lots of young youth clubs that feed into the High Schools, etc.
Although shooting isn’t exactly cheap. $1000 for a reasonable entry level over and over shotgun. Each practice might be 100 clay pigeons ($20). Four Boxes of shells another $25.
Although I guess that is still a lot cheaper than hockey rink time?
That is why soccer is so widespread - it’s cheap and simple. I don’t care to watch soccer. I used to coach my daughter’s team though and had lots of fun with it. And the kids did too - anybody can play it and be useful on a team at the grade-school to Junior high level.
Do it for Razor! He is running out of superlatives.
The population of Warroad is about 1,800. They've produced seven Olympic hockey players and five who have played in the NHL.
The best story involves Gigi Marvin -- a real cute babe who has played on the U.S. Women's National Team. She played on boys teams until she was 13, and describes an incident where she got into fight during a game with future NHL star T.J. Oshie. LMAO.
All sports are equal to me in terms of hate.
It could be. Some people even say its #2 or #3. Cricket is #2 because of the Indian subcontinent, not so much because of England or Australia. Field hockey is big in India and Pakistan and is also played in Europe. Add all the girls who play it in North America, and that's a lot of people. For some reason America decided that girls play field hockey and when boys do something called "lacrosse", but it's not like that in other parts of the world.
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