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Barcelona

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Not only the most popular sport, but apparently the most
« on: January 04, 2006, 03:38:00 pm »
http://sports.yahoo.com/sow/news?slug=reu-surprisedc&prov=reuters&type=lgns
 
 Soccer is the most exciting sport of all: study
 
 LONDON (Reuters) - It's official. Soccer has been the most exciting sport for the last 100 years, but baseball is catching up.
 
 A team of scientists from the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico studied a string of sports to discover which offered the most unpredictable and surprising results -- and soccer was the winner.
 
 "If there are no upsets, then every game is predictable and hence boring," Eli Ben-Naim told New Scientist magazine.
 
 He and team members Sidney Redner and Federico Vazquez analyzed results from more than 300,000 games over the last century from the U.S. national hockey, football, basketball and baseball leagues and the top English soccer league.
 
 Their results showed that the "upset frequency" was highest for soccer followed by baseball, hockey, basketball and finally American football.
 
 But there was a twist in the tale for soccer fans.
 
 When the team studied data from just the last 10 years, English soccer and American baseball swapped places, suggesting that soccer had become more predictable over the past decade.

Guiny

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Re: Not only the most popular sport, but apparently the most
« Reply #1 on: January 04, 2006, 03:56:00 pm »
Well when the scores are 0-0 and 1-0 every game....then yes, it's anybodys game.

Venerable Bede

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Re: Not only the most popular sport, but apparently the most
« Reply #2 on: January 04, 2006, 05:16:00 pm »
darn, i thought this thread was gonna be about last night's penn state/florida state game.
OU812

Re: Not only the most popular sport, but apparently the most
« Reply #3 on: January 04, 2006, 05:26:00 pm »
I thought this thread was going to be about ping pong.
 
 I thought it was funny at our office Xmas party, which was held at a Thai restaurant, when someone asked the one Chinese guy in our office of he was good at ping pong. Someone else also asked the two Chinese people what dishes they recommended.
 
 But I digress. Yes, soccer is very, very exciting.

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Re: Not only the most popular sport, but apparently the most
« Reply #4 on: January 04, 2006, 05:38:00 pm »
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Originally posted by Charlie Nakatestes, Japanese Golfer:
 
 I thought it was funny at our office Xmas party, which was held at a Thai restaurant, when someone asked the one Chinese guy in our office of he was good at ping pong. Someone else also asked the two Chinese people what dishes they recommended.
 
 
we had a similar real-life 'The Office' moment at our office Christmas party - we had an in-house Jeopardy contest (yes, I know we're dorks) and one of the questions involved identifying which member of staff was both a competitive ballroom dancer  and a black belt in tae kwon do. Out of 35 people in our office, one is Asian.....guess who the 'Jeopardy contestant' picked....I thought I was going to piss myself laughing
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Re: Not only the most popular sport, but apparently the most
« Reply #5 on: January 04, 2006, 05:41:00 pm »
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  which member of staff was both a competitive ballroom dancer  and a black belt in tae kwon do. Out of 35 people in our office, one is Asian
I bet he's good at DDR too.
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Re: Not only the most popular sport, but apparently the most
« Reply #6 on: January 04, 2006, 06:13:00 pm »
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Originally posted by brennser:
  which member of staff was both a competitive ballroom dancer  and a black belt in tae kwon do. Out of 35 people in our office, one is Asian
I bet he's good at DDR too. [/b]
it was a she
 
 pardon my ignorance, but whats DDR?

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Re: Not only the most popular sport, but apparently the most
« Reply #7 on: January 05, 2006, 01:51:00 am »
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Re: Not only the most popular sport, but apparently the most
« Reply #8 on: January 05, 2006, 09:46:00 am »
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  pardon my ignorance, but whats DDR?
<img src="http://terpsboy.com/blogger5/SP-SpecialCartman.jpg" alt=" - " />
 
  DAR

Summerteeth

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Re: Not only the most popular sport, but apparently the most
« Reply #9 on: January 05, 2006, 11:18:00 am »
Using that picture was a stretch this time.

vansmack

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Re: Not only the most popular sport, but apparently the most
« Reply #10 on: January 05, 2006, 02:16:00 pm »
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  it was a she
 
My bad.  I bet she's good at DDR.
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HoyaSaxa03

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Re: Not only the most popular sport, but apparently the most
« Reply #11 on: January 07, 2006, 02:21:00 am »
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Originally posted by Charlie Nakatestes, Japanese Golfer:
 I thought it was funny at our office Xmas party, which was held at a Thai restaurant, when someone asked the one Chinese guy in our office of he was good at ping pong. Someone else also asked the two Chinese people what dishes they recommended.
 
i was playing poker at the mirage when this arab guy took a horrible beat from an asian dude and just went off with these china-man comments ... it was even less subtle than this and shit kind of hit the fan ... anyways, i obviously flashed back to lebowski, but i thought it would be a bit injudicious to remind the arab guy that his counterpart wasn't one the guys who built the railroad, man
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Frank Gallagher

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Re: Not only the most popular sport, but apparently the most
« Reply #12 on: January 09, 2006, 08:11:00 am »
Did everyone notice that runny-catchy was the least exciting, aka BORING
 
 And if you take out the last minute of basketball (which actually lasts about 4 hours in real time) that's extremely boring also. A 7' tall bloke runs up the court and puts it in that little basket thingie at one end, then another 7' bloke runs up the other end and does the same.
 
 Two questions,
 
 1) Why not just make basketball games a minute long and be done with the rest of the needless bs?
 
 2) Whatever happened to the "travelling rule" in basketball?