Cricket opinions from a guy who doesn’t know cricket

[Hermes]

the GMAC Bowl had their media event at the Mobile Greyhound Park

Sometimes a part of a sentence is a laugh line unto itself.

 

[dixiehack]

Really. The greyhound place is/was way out in the country, almost closer to Pascagoula than downtown.

 

[justgladtobehere]

Can anyone explain the hierarchy of football sports in Australia? It is a top international rugby union team, but Aussie Rules is big and it has the other rugby formats along with cricket and soccer.

What about Ireland? I know a lot of politics are involved, but do the best athletes go towards hurling or rugby?

 

[Songbird]

had Poin with a girl in middle school

20 years here and that's one of the best little snippets I've ever read.

 

[FileNotFound]

Can anyone explain the hierarchy of football sports in Australia? It is a top international rugby union team, but Aussie Rules is big and it has the other rugby formats along with cricket and soccer.

What about Ireland? I know a lot of politics are involved, but do the best athletes go towards hurling or rugby?

In Australia, the NRL is the most popular, followed by AFL. Rugby Union is for true aficionados (some here might call them snobs.)

 

[Vombatus]

In Australia, the NRL is the most popular, followed by AFL. Rugby Union is for true aficionados (some here might call them snobs.)

Yep. I follow the Partamatta Eels, which is a bit like rooting for the Oakland A's.

 

[FileNotFound]

Yep. I follow the Partamatta Eels, which is a bit like rooting for the Oakland A's.

I live in Manly Sea Eagles territory, but I'm a fan of the South Sydney Rabbitohs just for the mascot.

 

[doctorquant]

Way back in my sportswriting days, I was covering the Cocktail Party in Jacksonville and went along with several other writers to the dog track there. Twas my first foray into legal betting of any sort ... I'd dropped $5 every blue moon on a football parlay card, but that was it ... and I was captivated by the idea of a quinella. As I recall my first-ever winning bet was something like a $50 payoff on a quinella (and $50 was a HELLUVA lotta money to me then). One of the guys with us (he wound up being such a big-shot he got an RIP thread 'round these parts) was indignant I'd won with such a "stupid" wager. On and on and on he went about how ignorant I was. Turns out he'd bet on the same two dogs ... but he'd taken the exacta, and apparently he wasn't quite as prescient as he thought he was.

I never could quite figure out how my having $50 and him having squat meant I was the ignorant one.

 

[justgladtobehere]

In Australia, the NRL is the most popular, followed by AFL. Rugby Union is for true aficionados (some here might call them snobs.)

So if Rugby Union is third place, how does the country do so well internationally?

 

[FileNotFound]

So if Rugby Union is third place, how does the country do so well internationally?

Speaking of spectator popularity. The better athletes, probably, are in Union — and Union fans will argue that's the only "real" rugby — but it's League that packs the stands every weekend in fall and winter.

 

[Tighthead]

So if Rugby Union is third place, how does the country do so well internationally?

Australia has been more down than up as a rugby nation for the last 20 years or so. They've hardly won a Bledisoe Cup or the Tri Nations/Rugby Championship in that time. Fiji handled them yesterday.

 

[2muchcoffeeman]

Some of y'all will appreciate this: I turned on one of the ESPN3 feeds tonight and found jai alai from the Magic City Fronton in Miami.

You're welcome.