Favourite Non American Sport

I voted for football (soccer).

I'm glad that the option for it, at least had football in brackets. I cannot stand seeing it being referred to as soccer.. :)

But after spending a year in Australia, I got a bigger appreciation for cricket, as well as Rugby Union and Rugby League.

What? No Blitzball? :(

Football/Soccer! *kicks*

Out of those five, tennis.

When you consider the World Baseball Classic consisted of The USA, Canada, Mexico, Panama, Cuba, Puerto Rico, Venezuela, Dominican Republic, The Netherlands, Italy, Japan, China, Taiwan, Korea, South Africa, and Australia, that seems pretty universal. At least one team for every continent, sans Antarctica, but everyone knows the Penguins would kill everyone else.

I knew there were Asian Teams in there but I didn't know how many. I would say baseball is mainly an Americas, Asian sport more than anything. I don't really think it is universal because a few countries from the other half of the world decided to join in. It was removed from the olympics on top of that.

I hate ALL sports.

You forgot fencing.

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Originally Posted by Denmark

basketball is of course played in australia. otherwise, where would we have gotten luke schenscher and andrew bogut? just to name two that i remember.

and what about australian football? and also, very few people even know how to play cricket in the US, let alone actually play it, so your claim that it is a "universal" sport is flawed. curling would have been a better choice. and the amount of rugby played is also not as high here as it is in other parts of the world. "universal" sports? hardly.

anyway. soccer is godly. so yeah.

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Cricket is one of the most played sports in the world.

-India
-England
-New Zealand
-Pakistan
-Bangladesh
-Zimbabwe
-Sri Lanka
-Australia
-South Africa
-West Indies

And Scotland and Ireland also play, but it's not very big there.

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Originally Posted by denmark

and what about australian football

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Why would I post the top sport of a country with 20'000'000 population? I'm guessing that like 1/50th of this forum (probally less) has even heard of AFL (Australian football league) so it'd be pointless.

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Originally Posted by Denmark

basketball is of course played in australia. otherwise, where would we have gotten luke schenscher and andrew bogut? just to name two that i remember.

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Yeh we play it, but we dont air it on TV. This argument has already been made above.

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Originally Posted by Kirobaito

Out of those five, tennis.

When you consider the World Baseball Classic consisted of The USA, Canada, Mexico, Panama, Cuba, Puerto Rico, Venezuela, Dominican Republic, The Netherlands, Italy, Japan, China, Taiwan, Korea, South Africa, and Australia, that seems pretty universal. At least one team for every continent, sans Antarctica, but everyone knows the Penguins would kill everyone else.

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Gee you picked some real well known countries there.

THe reason that some sports have not been chosen, is because they do not have a strong competition in their country. Ok yeh, Australia has Basbeall and basketball. But I've only ever seen one Basketball game and no baseball games in my 16 years of life.

Those countries might play Baseball, but I doubt it gets on TV.

Why is this still in GC? *moves to The Lounge*

Golf is the only sport I play. :cat:

Football, and not that complete and utter they call the NFL...

And I agree with Pureghetto, you ought to have included fencing...

I don't really care for sports; but tennis has always intrigued me.

Soccer? Oh, yes, Football. Also a popular sport worldwide.

dont really follow cricket...ill go for soccer and tennis:D

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Originally Posted by Denmark

basketball is of course played in australia. otherwise, where would we have gotten luke schenscher and andrew bogut? just to name two that i remember.

and what about australian football? and also, very few people even know how to play cricket in the US, let alone actually play it, so your claim that it is a "universal" sport is flawed. curling would have been a better choice. and the amount of rugby played is also not as high here as it is in other parts of the world. "universal" sports? hardly.

anyway. soccer is godly. so yeah.

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Cricket is one of the most played sports in the world.

-India
-England
-New Zealand
-Pakistan
-Bangladesh
-Zimbabwe
-Sri Lanka
-Australia
-South Africa

And Scotland and Ireland also play, but it's not very big there.

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Originally Posted by denmark

and what about australian football

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Why would I post the top sport of a country with 20'000'000 population? I'm guessing that like 1/50th of this forum (probally less) has even heard of AFL (Australian football league) so it'd be pointless.

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Originally Posted by Denmark

basketball is of course played in australia. otherwise, where would we have gotten luke schenscher and andrew bogut? just to name two that i remember.

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Yeh we play it, but we dont air it on TV. This argument has already been made above.

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Originally Posted by Kirobaito

Out of those five, tennis.

When you consider the World Baseball Classic consisted of The USA, Canada, Mexico, Panama, Cuba, Puerto Rico, Venezuela, Dominican Republic, The Netherlands, Italy, Japan, China, Taiwan, Korea, South Africa, and Australia, that seems pretty universal. At least one team for every continent, sans Antarctica, but everyone knows the Penguins would kill everyone else.

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Gee you picked some real well known countries there.

THe reason that some sports have not been chosen, is because they do not have a strong competition in their country. Ok yeh, Australia has Basbeall and basketball. But I've only ever seen one Basketball game and no baseball games in my 16 years of life.

Those countries might play Baseball, but I doubt it gets on TV.

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All of those places you listed where former English Colonies or had very strong ties to England as I said. It is not a popular world sport it is still just an English sport. Nice try.

As for baseball the countries he choose. All of the Americas(besides Canada) follows baseball very well as well as Japan. I am not so sure about the other asian countries or the europian ones he named though.

You convinced me about cricket as much others have convinced you of baseball. Neither are world universal sports and probably NEVER will be.

Well, actually, the USA plays cricket too. They take part in the World Cup and all; they're new to it, so they're not all that good, but getting better. Considering that at least one country from many continents (the only one I can't think of having a representative at the Cricket WC besides Antartica is South America), I'd say cricket is a pretty universal sport.

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Originally Posted by Thorn

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Originally Posted by Denmark

basketball is of course played in australia. otherwise, where would we have gotten luke schenscher and andrew bogut? just to name two that i remember.

and what about australian football? and also, very few people even know how to play cricket in the US, let alone actually play it, so your claim that it is a "universal" sport is flawed. curling would have been a better choice. and the amount of rugby played is also not as high here as it is in other parts of the world. "universal" sports? hardly.

anyway. soccer is godly. so yeah.

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Cricket is one of the most played sports in the world.

-India
-England
-New Zealand
-Pakistan
-Bangladesh
-Zimbabwe
-Sri Lanka
-Australia
-South Africa

And Scotland and Ireland also play, but it's not very big there.

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Originally Posted by denmark

and what about australian football

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Why would I post the top sport of a country with 20'000'000 population? I'm guessing that like 1/50th of this forum (probally less) has even heard of AFL (Australian football league) so it'd be pointless.

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Originally Posted by Denmark

basketball is of course played in australia. otherwise, where would we have gotten luke schenscher and andrew bogut? just to name two that i remember.

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Yeh we play it, but we dont air it on TV. This argument has already been made above.

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Originally Posted by Kirobaito

Out of those five, tennis.

When you consider the World Baseball Classic consisted of The USA, Canada, Mexico, Panama, Cuba, Puerto Rico, Venezuela, Dominican Republic, The Netherlands, Italy, Japan, China, Taiwan, Korea, South Africa, and Australia, that seems pretty universal. At least one team for every continent, sans Antarctica, but everyone knows the Penguins would kill everyone else.

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Gee you picked some real well known countries there.

THe reason that some sports have not been chosen, is because they do not have a strong competition in their country. Ok yeh, Australia has Basbeall and basketball. But I've only ever seen one Basketball game and no baseball games in my 16 years of life.

Those countries might play Baseball, but I doubt it gets on TV.

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All of those places you listed where former English Colonies or had very strong ties to England as I said. It is not a popular world sport it is still just an English sport. Nice try.

As for baseball the countries he choose. All of the Americas(besides Canada) follows baseball very well as well as Japan. I am not so sure about the other asian countries or the europian ones he named though.

You convinced me about cricket as much others have convinced you of baseball. Neither are world universal sports and probably NEVER will be.

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Even Canada is into baseball a bit. They've got an MLB team (though it doesn't get great attendance anymore, though it once did), used to have two, and there have been some pretty good players to come out of Canada - Larry Walker, Jason Bay, Rich Harden, to name three.

Italy, to be entirely honest, was comprised mostly of Italian-Americans. The Dutch team included all Dutch colonies, which is why Andruw Jones of Curacao played.

The South African team was South Africans and the Australian team was Australians. Taiwan and Korea are just about as big into baseball as Japan is.