Originally posted by jeannie7I'll suggest two, given my nationality:
Well most of you guys are sports crazy right (that is non-rhetorical fellas)..........how about a thread where each time you post you describe your game or sport briefly, why you enjoy it and perhaps add an accompanying URL?
Who's first?.............
Australian Rules Football
Played with an oval shaped ball - somewhat similar to a griodiron ball - 18 players on each team, kick the ball towards a line of 4 posts. The middle two are goals (worth 6 points), the outside two are points. Players can catch the ball (mark), pass the ball (by punching it to teammates) and can tackle opposition players to dispossess.
Played mostly on cricket grounds (a historical throwback).
Cricket
Two teams - 11 players each.
The batting team has two batsmen on the field at any one time. The fielding/bowling team has all players on field. One bowler runs up and bowls the ball (with a specified bowling action - no throwing allowed) to one of the batsmen. If he hits the ball and can safely run, he and the other batsman run down a 20 odd meter pitch, swapping ends.
The feilding team tries to catch the ball on the full off the batsmen's bat, or bowl the batsmen by getting the ball past them to hit three sticks (wickets), or by running them out by fielding and then throwing the ball to hit the wickets as the batsmen run to swap ends.
I might need to explain a bit more if anyone's interested.
As cricket has already been done, I'll add snooker:
Snooker is based on the games of billiards, which is over 500 years old, and was invented by British soldiers in India in the late 1800's.
The game consists of a 12'x6' green baize covered slate table, with pockets in each of the four corners and in the middle of each of the long cushions. It is played using a cue, one white ball (the cue ball), 15 red balls and 6 colours: a yellow (worth 2 points), green (3 points), brown (4 points), blue (5 points), pink (6 points) and black ball (7 points). A player wins a frame of snooker by scoring the most points, through using the cue ball to pot the balls in the manner described below. A match consists of an agreed number of frames.
The first great snooker champion was Joe Davis, from Chesterfield, Derbyshire.
Recent greats who have dominate the world championships have included Ray Reardon, Steve Davis and Steven Hendry.
Cliff Thorburn (Canadian) is the only overseas player to have won the world championship (for some reason Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland are not classed as overseas).
The World Championships have taken place in Sheffield since 1977, and is currently in the semi finals stage.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snooker
http://www.worldsnooker.com/
Originally posted by Vargdon't forget ronnie - also n ireland is still part of the uk ðŸ˜
As cricket has already been done, I'll add snooker:
Snooker is based on the games of billiards, which is over 500 years old, and was invented by British soldiers in India in the late 1800's.
The game consists of a 12'x6' green baize covered slate table, with pockets in each of the four corners and in the middle of each of the long cushions. It is played using ...[text shortened]... n the semi finals stage.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snooker
http://www.worldsnooker.com/
Originally posted by trevor33I didn't include Ronnie because he hasn't dominated like the others - although he has won two WCs, like Williams.
don't forget ronnie - also n ireland is still part of the uk ðŸ˜
N. Ireland is indeed part of the UK, but the commentators (Dennis Taylor included) tend to use the phrase "overseas".
Originally posted by Varghe may only have won 2 wc (looks like 3 after this year - should be a good final though) but i think he's the most natural snooker player ever and more titles will come if he keeps his head straight.
I didn't include Ronnie because he hasn't dominated like the others - although he has won two WCs, like Williams.
N. Ireland is indeed part of the UK, but the commentators (Dennis Taylor included) tend to use the phrase "overseas".
i don't think they say "overseas" for the two irelands but i'll look out for that - i suppose there is a sea between them 😕