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cplmac — GMT

Athletics, discuss

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Chameleon — GMT

cplmac wrote:

Athletics, discuss

Are you wondering what we like or what we play(ed)? Well, I like soccer, football, rally racing, hockey, raquetball, mountain biking, and road biking. I used to play a lot of raquetball back in the day and I also played soccer at my junior college. I wanted to play when I got to the state college, but they wouldn't take walk-ons :( . I wanted to play football also in high school, but I was too small at the time. As a junior in high school, I was about 5'4" and weighed under 120 lbs. I had hands like glue and could run faster then most of the guys playing, though :D . I never brag about myself, but I honestly think I could of gone somewhere with football. Ummm, I just watch rally racing, I don't actually do it. However, it would be fun to do it!! Just not with my car, though. I wouldn't mind trying to race in a mountain biking or road biking event. I've done some training rides with some people who race in road biking events. They said that I would do pretty well in them. Not get first or anything, but do well. I've never played hockey, but it is fun to watch.

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Boingo_Babe — GMT

I love watching hockey and the SuperBowl. I like to watch drag races with my dad, he watches the funny cars every once in a while too. I've always enjoyed playing baseball (or softball, I was a kick-butt pitcher in grade school) and was quite proud of myself when I pulled a 50 yard return in flag football in 8th grade. Real football is better though. I love to go mini golfing and bowling. Hacky sac is fun too (even though I suck). Racquetball is fun even though I have no coordination. I also like to bike, fly fish, hike, volleyball (not my favorite, but it's all right). Thank heavens the whole hockey ordeal is over! B_B

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cplmac — GMT

Funny you should mention hockey, I just got done registering on the Blackhawks forum. I spent the last hour making hawks management cry for their sins. Hopefully hockey this year will not be a disappointment, they have already taken a big step to improve over last year by agreeing to actually play this season.

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Chyster — GMT

I don't like to watch sports unless I am in the stadium. Baseball is the exception to this rule as even in the stadium, its a boring game. Good thing they sell beer. Lately, I have found Rugby interesting to watch but I think it is only because I don't fully comprehend the rules yet. I like sports better if I play. Did the HS football and track thing but that was a hunnert years ago (or so it seems) and the normal sports growing up. My favorite sport is fraggin' bugs and I hope to see it in the Olymipics real soon. :D

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Mr.Clean(TM) — GMT

The_Flash and i are on the same varsity tennis team. don't tell him, but i could kick his butt!

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GETSOME — GMT

Yes I love to talk about sports. LOVE football ..Anybody see those bucs? Watch out! People under estimating them. Still a Great "D" With playmakers on offense now. Looks to be a good season ahead. Oh and about hockey TAMPABAY will take it all there too. With the new rule changes,that just helps tampa out. They ARE the fastest team in the league.Now nobody can hold them up. GREAT time of the year for sports (in tampa atleast.)

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The Flash — GMT

Mr.Clean(TM) wrote:

The_Flash and i are on the same varsity tennis team. don't tell him, but i could kick his butt!

hmmmmm seeing that i was 2nd doubles and you were 3rd doubles and that i beat you 2 out of the 3 games we last played 1 ofcourse being a tie. im pretty sure im doing the butt kickin lol. Oh and I run varsity cross county. and no i dont use my superpower to win races. thats cheating. so dont think im going to run over and get you some icecream in a blink of an eye. GO LIONS

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cplmac — GMT

Get me some Ice Cream! The bucks D is still solid despite losing Sapp. Simeon is a stud. Any team with Chucky at the helm has a good chance to succeed. As for the lightning didn't they just win the cup two years ago?! Don't get greedy now give some of the rest of us a chance.

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Spike — GMT

Soccer. Too bad it really hasn't caught on in the US (it is better than 20 years ago, gotta admit). I'm taking a week off next year just to watch The Cup. I like tennis too but haven't kept up with the pro's so the names aren't very familiar nowadays. Same with pro basketball - now I like college basket better. Let's see - just now getting into American Football since one of my sons plays it... although I'm sure he'll be playing soccer next year - woohoo! ;) As far as playing, I don't really excel at any sport (had real bad asthma when I was a kid and into my late teens) but I did pick up Aikido many many years ago and still like it.

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cplmac — GMT

Soccer is a great sport, I played for 11 years. As for tennis, the only name you need to know nowadays is Roger Federer, he has been pretty much unstoppable for the last year or so, and surprisingly Agassi remains a force in the sport.

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Spike — GMT

I was a big fan of Vilas, Panatta, Connors/McEnroe and Lendl... after that I sort of quit paying much attention. I've seen Federer (and he just won the US Open) and he is amazing. My favorite has been Lendl for a long time.

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Mr.Clean(TM) — GMT

i saw federer beat ginepri a couple weeks ago in cinncinatti for my b-day. roddick beat hewitt too

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cplmac — GMT

Roddick is a frustrating enigma, he seems like he has the potential to dominate, but he just can't seem to get it together and keep it together.

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cplmac — GMT

Go White Sox!!!!

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PyRo — GMT

Spike wrote:

As far as playing, I don't really excel at any sport (had real bad asthma when I was a kid and into my late teens) but I did pick up Aikido many many years ago and still like it.

I know what you mean, i had (still kinda do) asthma, its a pain, but i had it alot worse in grade school. I do love playing football! And i love watching it! Specialy the Superbowl!! I dont really watch anything else..i used to really get into basketball, but thats when it was interesting, like with the Bulls and the Jazz. lol i know i know...but they were good games! I do play Hacky sac, but im not that great at it. I agree with Chyster on how baseball is boring..uhg no ty! I do like watching drag races, i love going to Rocky Mountain Raceways here, they have awesome races! I havent been for awhile but hopefully next year ill get to go a bit more! I like vollyball, im getting into fishing, i caught my first fish this summer!! :D but ya...i think thats about it... :?

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Sleepless_playa — GMT

I love all sports, but the only one I watch is football. Im a big fan of the Bengals, which are looking pretty good this year. Its not easy being a Bengals fan. Where I live you are either a Steelers fan or a Browns fan. My son played his first season of football this year (little league). He did pretty good for his first time.(he is only 5) Its really amazing how fast kids learn. He told me he is joining the NFL next year. I also play football. I have a flag football tournament coming up in a couple of weeks.

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Timo_Tolkki1337 — GMT

I also agree about baseball being boring. And now with the playoffs on, the games are being played while some of my favorite shows are on like The Simpsons and Family Guy. I really enjoy watching football. My family has season tickets to Packer games so I usually try to make it to 2 or 3 games a year. Brett Favre is awesome.

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cplmac — GMT

Go Bears!!!

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Pyramidion — GMT

buffalo bills!!! but I don't like how they're playing Holcomb over Losman, he needs some experience, playoffs aren't key this year

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cplmac — GMT

Playoffs aren't key? Your Bills will be in the playoffs you might want to rethink that. Willis McGahee is my starting running back on my fantasy team, and I have Lee Evans on the bench, but he is about to get dropped off the squad. I can't believe how well McGahee recovered from that particularly nasty knee injury.

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Pyramidion — GMT

oh yeah that knee injury was nasty they show that all the time... but I'd rather have Losman learn to play in the NFL and lose some games than to bench him and get to the playoffs. Sure i'd love to see buffalo make it in the playoffs, but Losman could be so much better next year if we play him now. Just look at Eli, he was bad last year, but they stuck with him and now he's great. I think our team's amazing, Evans is my favorite player on the team, we just need to improve the QB spot and we could succeed in the playoffs I think

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GETSOME — GMT

Congratulations Chicago..... Your Soxs put a whoopin on the astros =D> :D/

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cplmac — GMT

Oh Yeah! Our town has been needing a World Series for so long its ridiculous. This is the best thing to happen in Chicago Sports since Da Bears dominated their way through the Superbowl in the '85 season.

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Hobo_Joe — GMT

I'm not big on watching baseball. I think it woulda been kinda neat to have the Astros win since they have never even made it to the World Series. As for football, I watch it, I play it, but I don't really have a team...although I do like watching the Patriots... :?

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Pyramidion — GMT

I have to bring this thread back... the Buffalo Sabres are in the Playoffs again and I'm extatic and what a first game it was... I can remember watching the final Stanley Cup game against the Dallas Stars and losing in like the fifth OT because of a crease goal which I shall never forget... kind of like the Music City Miracle if you know Buffalo/Tenessee football :cry: , but anyway I'm really thrilled our team has another shot. And I was surprised when my dad actually bought tickets to the 5th game against the flyers, so hopefully philly will win just one game so I can see the sabres win :D . So any other hockey fans rooting for their teams in the playoffs?

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Mach10 — GMT

Canucks choked, but they need to shake up the core and nothing assures that like missing the playoffs. Watched parts of the Buffalo game, amazing hit on Umberger, very exciting game. I'm going for a Habs and Oilers finals, very unlikely, but I'd enjoy it.

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Pyramidion — GMT

yeah, what a hit :-o ... he was pretty out of it. There were some pretty heavy hits that game

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Spacey — GMT

There are two different ways one could take this...sports in which we participate and sports we like to watch. Here goes... On the participate side, I love cycling, swimming, and martial arts (details in a second). Scuba diving was something I really enjoyed in HS/college, but it has been too long for me to say that I participate in it. Likewise for competitive diving, which I did back when I was in ES, where I was more into the platform than the springboard. Then I like soccer, but my knees are not up to it much any longer. On the watching side...I love soccer and hockey. While most folks think of Columbus, OH as being a cow-town, we do have our own NHL team (the Blue Jackets), and our own MLS team (The Crew) with our own dedicated soccer stadium (a rare thing). Unforunately, tickets are priced so that I cannot see going to games much, especially given the timing of the games and the need to get our 11yo home at a reasonable time during the school year. At times, I will also watch cycling, swimming/diving competitions, figure skating, or martial arts competitions. But I look at other pro sports like baseball, basketball and football as rather boring displays of a bunch of rich jerks out there showing off, with all too brief action thrown into a mostly boring couple of hours. I pretty much formed this after the Reds won several world series and got really cocky. And at the college level, it is not much different, except for the sallaries. The main exception is that I will watch Ohio State football games at times, and if they are doing well or playing Michigan, I am more likely to watch. Now, I mentioned martial arts...I have a number of friends who have high level black belts in various styles and forms, and over the years, we did quite a bit of sparing, and I even helped teach a few self-defense classes. However, while I was up to things like breaks, blind sparring, and weapons to a degree, I never really got into formalized classes/testing. The main exception was with Kendo/Iaido, which I did in college. One other martial art which I enjoyed and spent quite a bit of time doing until my back injury was something referred to as "SCA Heavy Weapons" combat. While I could just give you a few links, instead I will give you a search phrase for Yahoo! If you enter the following exactly as given, including quotes, the first two are pics from a huge (11K+ people) event in Pennsylvania, and the third is one page from my old personal site. The search term is:

pennsic "Cinnion map Liuelin map Higuel"

It has been several years since I was able to do that, but a personal stretch goal for this summer is to get back into it and get re-authorized. And for those of you who have seen me circling in the game and such, it was the martial arts, especially the SCA combat, which taught me to circle ones opponent and never stand still. :D Oh, and if you count racing...I like watching Indy racing (as well as the ones where they run the Indy cars through routes in cities), and am cheering on Danica and the rest of Team Rahal Letterman, which is from here in town as well! (their HQ is only about 4 miles from where I sit right now) :D

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Sour_Grape — GMT

For chivalry and honor, lay on! (and pass the grog)

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Pyramidion — GMT

oh what a game, just watched the first game between the Sabres and Ottawa, which broke the record for quickest goals, most ties during the game, and most goals in under 2 minutes to play. It was a crazy game, watching the Sabres tie ottawa with 2 minutes left at 5-5 was great, however ottawa comes back to score with 1:32 left in the 3rd to make it 6-5. I was kind of down again that they may lose, but with 10 seconds left the sabres tie it to bring on overtime, Yes#:-S! And with 18 seconds into overtime they win the game, great game and comeback ! Is anyone else watching these series, this may be one of the best playoffs I've ever seen. :D

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cplmac — GMT

The Blackhawks are my team, but they are just brutal for the fans. The ownership is the worst in all of professional sports, the management is not much better and it's been ten years since we have had a star player. Oh and home games are blacked out in the Chicago market. Did I mention they suck? For going on ten years now. I love hockey but my team is killing me. I like Ottawa, but they picked up a real bum from the Blackhawks in Tyler Arnason, I would like the Preds but they murdered us this year, used to be a closet NorthStars fan, but Dallas whomped on us scoring 17 goals in two games.