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Wed Oct 21, 2009, 10:58am
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Is it?
Is basketball your favorite sport? Just curious about what some members have to say.
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Wed Oct 21, 2009, 11:00am
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Wed Oct 21, 2009, 11:07am
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It used to be as it was a good workout and is the ultimate team sport where role-players can not only survive but thrive.
As the kids have grown older their interests have moved to baseball, however, and so I've picked up on that as a coach and student of the game (to the point where I'm thinking of officiating baseball as well once the kids grow up).
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Wed Oct 21, 2009, 11:11am
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I have three kids. Ask my wife what my favorite sport is.
Oh wait - on second thought, you'd better not. 
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Wed Oct 21, 2009, 11:18am
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Wed Oct 21, 2009, 11:23am
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Wed Oct 21, 2009, 11:31am
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Basketball is easily my favorite sport. It is also the only sport I officiate.
Not to give away my age, but I have participated in an organized (school, intramural, adult rec) basketball league for the last 41 years. I currently play twice a week and started officiating 14 years ago because I was starting to slow down and wasn't very competitive playing. Thankfully, my wife is very understanding when it comes to basketball.
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Wed Oct 21, 2009, 11:40am
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Golf is my favorite with BB a close second.
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Wed Oct 21, 2009, 12:36pm
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Wed Oct 21, 2009, 12:37pm
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Favorite is football. Favorite to officiate is basketball.
On a side note, I notice no one is saying volleyball. I love to play volleyball, but going to a bunch of HS matches, there is no possible way I coud ever officiate the sport. It has got to be soooo boring to officiate.
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Wed Oct 21, 2009, 01:09pm
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I did HS volleyball for a couple of years. There was quite a bit to keep me engaged. As the up official there is a judgment to make on every contact. As the down official, there's trying to track everybody.
OTOH, I have actually completely blanked out officiating a church volleyball tournament. One moment I'm beckoning for serve, then the next thing I remember the players are all standing staring at me wondering what call I had. Between matches I ran to the local C store for an industrial sized caffeinated drink.
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Wed Oct 21, 2009, 01:42pm
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Wed Oct 21, 2009, 02:59pm
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I really like all of the "big four" - baseball, football, basketball and hockey. Of course, I grew up on the South Side of Chicago, so that translates into White Sox, Bears (and Cardinals before them), Bulls and Blackhawks. As a kid, I played a ton of baseball and I was one heck of a shortstop. We didn't have any organizations for the other sports back then. As a teen, I umpired some park district baseball for three seasons. We used only one ump and you stood behind the pitcher. I really enjoyed it and I got paid $2 per game, which was a pretty good rate back then.
Soccer? Fahgeddaboudit, unless one of the grandkids is playing.
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