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David Monaghan  
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 More options Aug 13 2012, 3:08 am
Newsgroups: rec.gambling.poker
From: David Monaghan <monaghand.da...@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2012 08:08:10 +0100
Local: Mon, Aug 13 2012 3:08 am
Subject: Re: OT : Two Takeaways From the Olympics

On Sun, 12 Aug 2012 18:51:35 -0700, "brattt" <af3...@webnntp.invalid> wrote:
>http://www.totalprosports.com/2012/08/06/the-11-dumbest-sports-at-the...

What a bizarre and lazy article. I don't disagree with some of the
conclusions, but mostly not for the reasons he gives.

I wouldn't include "major' sports,  because they don't need the exposure, or
sports where the game is played professionally and to a high standard in
only a few countries. On that basis I wouldn't have football of pretty much
any kind in, nor tennis, cricket, baseball, or golf.

More controversially, I wouldn't have any sport that has marks for an
artistic component, and I have major reservations about any sport where the
winner is judged, rather than objectively wins. Granted, that might rule out
boxing, but after some of the controversies over the boxing medals this
year, I'm not sure that would be a bad decision.

DaveM


 
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