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09-23-2006, 02:58 PM
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Re: Are there any sports left where the USA can beat the rest of the w
I think we will start to see the gap rarrow a lot around the world in soccer and basketball. Both of these sports seem, or are starting to be, immensely popular around the world.
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09-23-2006, 04:23 PM
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Re: Are there any sports left where the USA can beat the rest of the w
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[ QUOTE ] We could still dominate basketball if we bothered to do it right. Don't cobble together an all-star team and let them practice together for a few weeks; just send the reigning NBA champions, and find some way to give them each a $2M bonus for winning a gold so there isn't some place else they'd rather be. [/ QUOTE ] This is dumb. Ridiculously dumb. We'll take the 2nd and 3rd best players from the spurs and take them overseas one year. Lets see how that works [img]/images/graemlins/frown.gif[/img] [/ QUOTE ] Hey genius, the Spurs aren't the reigning NBA champs.
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09-23-2006, 04:28 PM
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Re: Are there any sports left where the USA can beat the rest of the w
To answer the question as directly as possible — USA women's softball.
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#14
09-23-2006, 09:24 PM
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Re: Are there any sports left where the USA can beat the rest of the w
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[ QUOTE ] If the USA played a 50 game season against the rest of the world in baseball, they would kill them. If the USA played a 20 game season against the rest of the world in basketball, they would probably win. [/ QUOTE ] also if they didn't use the inferior international Basketball rules, USA would win much more often [/ QUOTE ] QFT. All this talk of building a team, playing together, etc is ignoring the simple fact that international rules are much different. They happen to be different in a way that does not favor NBA players which is the major reason for lack of US success. J
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09-23-2006, 09:26 PM
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Re: Are there any sports left where the USA can beat the rest of the w
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[ QUOTE ] [ QUOTE ] We could still dominate basketball if we bothered to do it right. Don't cobble together an all-star team and let them practice together for a few weeks; just send the reigning NBA champions, and find some way to give them each a $2M bonus for winning a gold so there isn't some place else they'd rather be. [/ QUOTE ] This is dumb. Ridiculously dumb. We'll take the 2nd and 3rd best players from the spurs and take them overseas one year. Lets see how that works [img]/images/graemlins/frown.gif[/img] [/ QUOTE ] Hey genius, the Spurs aren't the reigning NBA champs. [/ QUOTE ] Good point. Lets just pretend that there's only once champion ever and there would be teams we're sending that would have gaping holes. Right?
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09-23-2006, 09:46 PM
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Re: Are there any sports left where the USA can beat the rest of the w
Unfortunately our athletes are too busy dominating the best professional leagues with the best players (except for soccer) which are all in the USA to care much about some ridiculous single-elimination tournament that only happens every two or four years. In addition we have a wider variety of popular sports in this country than in most others which tends to dilute the talent pool (this is why we suck at some sports like tennis and soccer.) Still, we could have fielded probably two basketball and three baseball teams that would have been favorites to win if not for the presence of the other US teams, but being the favorite doesn't mean you win, obviously.
Also the ryder cup is rigged. Europe has what, three? times the population of the US, and half of that is from countries where golf is popular. They should win. Then again, that argument could be given by other countries about basically every other sport that the US has traditionally dominated in.
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