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Old Sun Oct 28, 2007, 07:01pm
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Circles, rectangles. semi-circles, arcs...those work very well on a basketball floor. But a TRAPEZOID??? I guess they got that from biddy basketball.
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Old Sun Oct 28, 2007, 08:35pm
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OK - without getting into 2700 lines of French bashing, here's what I think is going on. Here in the US, we have very strong feelings regarding what we consider our four "major" sports - baseball, football (no, not the soccer kind), basketball and hockey. While the rest of the world commonly recognizes some kind of European organization as the authority for different sports, we here do not do that. We feel we know the best way to regulate and set rules for these sports (even though we have different "levels") as to how we relate to them in our own backyard and it's not likely we will change. We do realize we have to play by those "other" rules when competing in international play, but we feel we "control" our own leagues and the number of participants is more than enough to support US based governing associations.
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Old Mon Oct 29, 2007, 05:45am
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OK - without getting into 2700 lines of French bashing, here's what I think is going on. Here in the US, we have very strong feelings regarding what we consider our four "major" sports - baseball, football (no, not the soccer kind), basketball and hockey. While the rest of the world commonly recognizes some kind of European organization as the authority for different sports, we here do not do that. We feel we know the best way to regulate and set rules for these sports (even though we have different "levels") as to how we relate to them in our own backyard and it's not likely we will change. We do realize we have to play by those "other" rules when competing in international play, but we feel we "control" our own leagues and the number of participants is more than enough to support US based governing associations.
Dang, Mark, this is well spoken. Did you write this right after you took your meds?
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