What are your favorite sports? To watch and play?

[mix]

:shrug:

[CBR]

1. Mine

WATCH: Baseball is #1 by far followed by college football, college basketball and tennis
PLAY: Soccer

[MadBadger]

2. To play is Volleyball and Golf. To Watch - Football, Hockey, Golf, Baseball, NCAAB, Tennis

[JonLP24]

3. Ok

In order from what I like best.

Play:Football, basketball, soccer, volleyball, and baseball(even though I'm the worst batter alive)

Watch:NFL, College Football, NBA, College Basketball, NHL, MLB, College Baseball, boxing, and Penn St Women's Volleyball team. Also miscellaneous sports as well.

[Forkboy]

7. NHL #5!!!???!!!

:P

[JonLP24]

8. LOL

before the season started it was ranked far last just before golf but I watched quite a few Coyotes games this year and the sport moved ahead of baseball! So when you look at it this way it is improving at the fastest pace in terms of what I enjoy watching the most.

[Forkboy]

10. Allllllright. Lucky for you.

:D

[Kingofalldems]

4. To watch--baseball and golf

To play--golf.
Spring training starts tomorrow, BTW.

[lazarus]

5. watch - college football

and Spurs basketball.

Play? Tiger Woods PGA Golf on the Playstation.

[Forkboy]

6. Hockey for both.

I can see why tv viewers don't get hockey. But playing it is as intense as any sport I've played, and I played a lot. Football, baseball, basketball...I liked them all. Not one even came close to matching the intensity and fun of hockey (the cold air and and sound of skates on ice alone is great). It has the finesse and grace of basketball at it's best with the hits and action of the NFL, minus the attitude and rap sheets. And I can it has more honor than any sport I've ever been near. Not saying it's all angels in any way...there's some real bastards in the game. But even they follow a code of honor that's missing in other popular sports right now.

In an Islanders/Tampa Bay game yesterday two guys fought after a Tampa Bay player delivered a solid hit on the Islanders best player and future phenom, Tavares. Another Islander came over and instead of challenging the guy who hit Tavares he took on Tampa's tough guy. The two has a solid brawl, and in the penalty box the Tampa player stood, faced the Islanders player in the other penalty box, and applauded him for sticking up for his teammate and having an honest, clean fight. Compare that to the Miami Hurricanes and someone stomping on another player's leg while he was already down, like a coward. Give me hockey any day.

Racquetball is the closest in intensity after that. :)

[mix]

24. I love hockey.

If I had had the chance, I probably would have loved playing hockey growing-up.

I love to watch the NFL and a good baseball game now and then.

To play: volleyball, baseball

I'm not complicated, sports-wise.

:hi:

[two gun sid]

9. Horse Racing...

I love to watch it and I used to like to play it, too. A word to the wise: It is not a game played in short pants.

[Condem]

11. Aaaah, mix.

Sad. Aside from the Turkey Day football game with the nephews, not much any more. When I was younger? Played everything I could. College Football is my religion but I'll watch any sport. With a couple of exceptions.

[Forkboy]

12. So far today I've watched hockey, golf, hockey...and hockey!

I love sports! :)

[H2O Man]

13. Boxing

is my favorite sport. I fought over 300 amateur bouts; trained and managed many amateur and professional fighters; and wrote/write for some boxing magazines and internet forums.

[Forkboy]

15. An honorable sport.

It gets a bad rap from too many who latch onto the few ugly incidents (and I do mean a just a few). Ali alone, my friend. 'Nuff said there....

I still say Hagler is as tough as any dude to come the Pike, no matter what sport we talk about. Anyone who trains by running on the beach with combat boots and a truck tire chained around his waist is not someone I'm looking to challenge!

But the best fight I ever saw, hands down, was Boza and Bazooka. Each went down 2 or 3 times in the fight. Each round I kept thinking, "ok, this is the round it ends", only to have the other guy come out and throw more punches than Tyson on a double espresso. Hagler and Hearns was vicious, but was over fast (thankfully for both of them), but the Boza/Bazooka fight went the distance, and they beat the fuck out of one another. My father and I still say it was the best we've seen.

[Poiuyt]

14. Track

I ran track in high school and college and then coached the sport for 18 years. I love watching the Olympics and the European track meets.

I also like watching the Tour de France (too bad there's so much of a drug problem).

[hughee99]

16. Love to watch baseball

with football a close second, though I'll watch just about anything. I watched Sumo not too long ago with my 3 year old. She really enjoyed it, and I thought it was pretty interesting, too. I've also found (and we can argue "sport" vs. "game" elsewhere) darts, curling, and cricket interesting as well. The only sport I've found so far that i really don't like to watch is long distance running. There's really nothing worse than watching a marathon on TV (and I've watched everything from fishing to slamball). I guess it's ironic because for the last 12 years, the only sporting event i've attended in person every year (other than Sox games) was the Boston Marathon.

I love to play whiffleball, all the general fun of baseball, but you don't have to have as many people, and you can play with kids without anyone getting hurt. I like to golf too, but I haven't played too much lately.

[Awsi Dooger]

17. Olympic sports to watch, and golf to play

Basketball was also fantastic on the playgrounds when I was a teenager through mid 20s. I really miss it, and regret stopping to play once I moved to Las Vegas. Gunners are worthless outdoors, in fact ridiculed. Somehow they are coddled with the 3 point shot in formal games. College basketball is unwatchable with the 3 point shot, easily the most overrated sport particularly when compared to pre-'86.

Golf is the most fascinating mental and physical struggle. Paul Goydos came to 14 today with a 1 shot lead, then made several blunders/flubs and left with a quadruple bogey 9.

[Forkboy]

18. Golf is something else to play.

Hockey has support. You always know that your team will back you up. In golf you're on your own, and that's no slice of heaven. Not the toughest mental game I've played (hockey still holds that), but it's close, in some ways harder. In hockey I was usually goalie, so I took the blame a lot, sometimes earned...sometimes not. In golf there's no finger pointing...it' all on you. A great mental challenge! In clutch situations it's among the toughest sports to compete in, no doubt.

[lazarus]

19. In Malcolm Gladwell's new book

"What the Dog Saw," he talks about golf in an essay on the difference between panicking and choking. In particular, he goes into the Great Greg Norman Meltdown.

Weirdly enough, this even translates into the video game world. I've had great rounds going on the PS2, and suddenly something in my brain flipped and I hit 5 over on a hole I've previously eagled. It's the nature of golf to choke like that, I think.

[Forkboy]

20. It so gets into your head!

I basically suck at the game, but I've made shots that should result in an easy birdie, only to miss them by a wide margin. The sport gets into your head like few others. I've done the same thing on the Tiger Woods games...choke city. :)

[tishaLA]

21. Love to watch NFL and tennis

Occasionally, I watch NBA too....but it's mostly tennis and NFL

I play tennis. I used to play competitively, but now I play somewhat less than competitively. Heck, I'm a few months older than Hingis! What do you expect?

[ProfessorGAC]

22. Play: Golf And Bowling Watch: NFL and NBA

I used to play b-ball a lot. Even after school, i still played in I-Leagues, the Y, and Church leagues (yeah, that is ironic), but once i got MS, my quicks disappeared. And, besides i'm in my 50's now, so would have quit just for safety's sake.
GAC

[Onceuponalife]

23. My faves:

Watch (in order): baseball, hockey, NFL, college football, basketball (rarely). Only reasons baseball is ahead of hockey is (1) it's my first love and (2) has the best stats out of any sport. Oh, one more (3) the atmosphere when at the game can't be matched by any other sport. Pure magic. Plus, it's very relaxing on a warm, summer's day. When I was younger I would watch just about anything, including tennis, bowling and soccer. Never would watch golf. You'd have to kill me first before I would ever watch that. I think hockey is the fastest, most exciting game there is. Just doesn't have quite the overall magic and mythology that baseball has.

Play: Can't really play much anymore because of bad knees but when I was younger it was all about baseball, softball, football, basketball, volleyball, badminton, a little tennis, and ping pong. I was best at baseball, played it the most. When I became an adult, switched to softball. After playing that for a few years I couldn't hit a baseball anymore. Too small lol and also poor vision. In basketball I've always been a great shooter but I can't do anything else (dribbling, passing, rebounds, etc.) So I'm great at horse and around the world but lousy in a real game. I'm great at ping pong but can't play anymore because of my knees.

Edit to add: I wanted to play hockey when I was a kid but my folks wouldn't spring for the expensive equipment. Just as well: I couldn't really skate anyway. I played street hockey, though, with roller skates. Fun times.