HARDEST sports to play

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<p>How many serious injuries are there in baseball because someone got hit by the ball? Even if people are afraid of getting hit by a ball… how does that make it the toughest sport? People can get nervous or afraid in any sport so how does that make baseball the toughest?</p>

<p>I’ll say this again… no sport is harder than another. there is no clear definition of “this sport is more difficult than another.” it all depends how much effort is put into it. Every sport is hard if you put effort into it.</p>

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<p>excuse me? Swimming? Non-Traditional? What the heck?</p>

<p>Swimming cannot be considered non-traditional, neither can water polo. Ultimate Frisbee maybe…</p>

<p>There are world championships and the Olympics out there for swimming and water polo.</p>

<p>If you meant non-traditional to the U.S., then I will concede water polo. However, competitive swimming is by far an American Sport.</p>

<p>During the 2004 Olympics (and not to mention every single World Champion meet), America has dominated the majority of events in competitive swimming. For men:</p>

<p>Michael Phelps, Ian Crocker, Tom Malchow (he’s losing it btw) dominate the butterfly. Phelps and Crocker went first and second during the 2004 olympics.</p>

<p>Phelps and Erik Vendt have extremely strong IMs. Phelps won the gold in both the 200 and 400 IM.</p>

<p>Lenny Krazelburg (he’s also getting old, I think he retired already, not sure), Aaron Peirsol, and Michael Phelps are all top-notch backstrokers.</p>

<p>Gary Hall Jr. (needs an ego deflater) and that Lezak guy world/olympic champion caliber freestyle sprinters, and Michael Phelps is America’s fastest mid-distance freestyler (boo Ian Thorpe).</p>

<p>Erik Vendt and Larsen Jensen are also top caliber long-distance swimmers. Larsen Jensen i think is the 3rd fastest in the world.</p>

<p>The closest competitor to the U.S. in competitive swimming is Australia, and we DOMINATED the Aussies! [Mutual of Omaha]</p>

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<p>Holy Crap… I just realized I mentioned Michael Phelps like 10 times in my previous post… how is he so good!!!</p>

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<p>I meant relative to the main sports of American Culture. In my opinion any sport besides Football, Baseball and BasketBall are non-traditional.</p>

<p>America has plenty of gold medalists and has dominated many other sports besides those three, but lets face it, Football, Baseball, Basket Ball and to a lesser extent hockey are far more entrenched in today’s society than any other sport.</p>

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<p>shag, you have brought the integrity of my original post back on track!</p>

<p>you have revitalized it, until everyone else started rambling about all these other weird sports that i could care less about. </p>

<p>i meant hardest in “traditional sports” – as shag put it - basketball, football, baseball. baseball by the way is way gay – you’re peter pan 24/7. lmao.</p>

<p>no simplified sports, doggone it, (tennis, swimming, somebody mentioned GOLF earlier (lol)</p>

<p>by the way, water polo chicks are HOT. they have extremely tan bodies and tight skin, with hot shaggy brown/strawberry blonde hair and slim figures.</p>

<p>mmmmm.</p>

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<p>quite honestly, I think it’s ironic that America is best in its “non-traditional” sports…</p>

<p>3rd place in Basketball (we had our best players in the NBA go there)… football not played internationally… i don’t know about baseball.</p>

<p>Yet America is at or near the top in the world for gymnastics, swimming, diving, track & field, and many others…</p>

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<p>Most girl water polo players are big and athletic, honestly not my kind of attractive. Swimmer girls on the other hand :)</p>

<p>I think this thread would easily inlcude other sports as the hardest sports, but its just my opinion that what makes the sport hard is the quality of the opposition, not the sport itself.</p>

<p>Put it this way: Would you rather be a pro swimmer and make 6 figures, or be a pro basketball player and make money into the millions? I would follow the money if I could. I personally enjoy the sports that I play, but if I was good enough I would immediatly switch over to the big 3 and get more money.</p>

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<p>baller4lyfe- baseball is “way gay”? sounds like you may have a little issue with the function of your bat.</p>

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<p>the US consistently loses baseball to Japan and Cuba. as for the mens bball team, well that wasnt our best combo of players.</p>

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<p>in terms of international basketball, I think the NBA should send a top-notch team like San Antonio, Detroit, or Miami.</p>

<p>Sending in a bunch of all-stars is just idiotic, because you clump a bunch of different players from different teams and force them to try to adapt to a new offense/defense system in a short time. A lot of coaches, even the best ones, take at least one entire season to get their team used to his style. The 2004 olympic basketball team was too out of sync.</p>

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<p>shagpin - the water polo chicks i’ve seen are not tall and big. they are tan and sexy. :)</p>

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<p>WOW! i never thought a sports thread would be so heated on CC. haha. well cheers to that. and since i have a life, i havent been on CC for a while so sorry ECLIPTICA and TOMADOG for not giving you something to disagree with. i really did enjoy our pointless arguing (since noone was backing down), until others came in and started cussin and *<strong><em>. those stupid </em></strong>ing **<strong><em>es! jp. but really…do you guys have to resort to cussin to make a point or using really bad puns. that includes you TOMADOG. really, who uses insults someone by calling them a “dolt”? an occasional w…t.f or somethin is fine but it just belittle’s your POV when anyone post a sentence thats composed of mostly words like </em></strong> f<em>g d</em><em>**s or d</em>*k. after the first few posts i read after TOMA’S i really didnt feel like repeating myself over and over and hearing others say the same thing over and over. though i was amused at TOMA’S technique of quoting EVERYTHING and breaking it down, as i pointed out before.</p>

<p>and when i found out GOLF…oh yes…GOLF was being thrown out there as the hardest sport to play, well that’s when i decided the world’s gone mad.</p>

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that’s great man. i was recruited to go to the number #1 DIII tennis university, along with several DI schools. but since tennis is a sport that is so demanding that if you go to college you very little chance of making it pro, i decided to choose a university based on my academics. i’m a realist and it’s not likely i’ll turn pro, but hopefully i can walk on to one of 8 spots to play for my school in the fall, which happens to be the #1 DI school…damn you stanford. tennis isn’t like football or basketball (not sure about hockey) where you do high school, college, and then pros. nope, you basically do tennis because it requires so much skill to be better than others. what sucks is if you want to play in college b/c there are only 8 spots.</p>

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umm…right…i’m gonna go with a no on that one. at least racing cleavon you have the small possibility he’ll fall or or slip or something. but with sampras you have to pray he makes 12 unforced errors in arrow when you’re serving and 12 double faults in a row when he’s serving…without him ever winning many, if any, points in between. good luck with that one.</p>

<p>well, i still say tennis, and ECLIPTICA and TOMADOG still say boxing and wrestling i believe. so whatever. my answers tennis. this discussion is gettin old. i’m going to go and ACTUALLY PLAY the sport i’m so vehemently defending. at least ECLIPTICA and SBOMB play collegiately so they have a right to wrongly state tennis isn’t the hardest spot :slight_smile: i think ECLIPTICA, SBOMB and I (and toma) should just duke it out, b/c we all know that’s pretty easy. jp. but its not the hardest thing to do. anyway i smell and onslaught coming. have fun. im out</p>

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<p>i think ecliptica meant a point.</p>

<p>just shut up about tennis being the hardest. every “argument” you make for it holds true for EVERY SPORT ON EARTH (<– this might be a slight exaggeration…do not rebut it)</p>

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<p>and golf is harder than tennis</p>

<p>suck on that coqui</p>

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<p>Our high school puts most of their money (of all the money for sports) into football. In fact, the amount of money they invest in the football team at least doubles the amount of money put into all of the other sports combined. This is obviously, but I just wanted to bring some insight to the conversation!</p>

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<p>haha. i can’t even seriously debate the fact that tennis is harder than golf. it’s like me trying to prove that tennis is harder than curling. even TOMA and ECLIPTICA would agree with me that golf isnt anywhere near tennis. i mean cmon, really…</p>

<p>and the reason that your school, and every school in texas for that matter, puts so much money into football is because its such a traditional american sport…and it’s probably the sport that brings in the most fans and onlookers, and therefore the most money.</p>

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<p>quidditch…yup</p>

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<p>yeah quidditch is probably the hardest sport… no one on cc is any good at it</p>

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<p>not only is golf harder, it is also about 17 times more cool.</p>

<p>whats up now b</p>

<p>haha</p>

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<p>haha…you’re crazy man/woman. “b”…and i thought i was the only crackhead who used that. </p>

<p>you are joking about golf, right? if not, what you’re saying is only 17 times more hilarious.</p>