Comments on: Sporting times http://nz.kalafut.net/?p=43 A journal of learning to work and live in The Land of the Long White Cloud. Fri, 13 Jun 2008 02:15:05 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.5.2 By: Jim http://nz.kalafut.net/?p=43&cpage=1#comment-23 Tue, 21 Mar 2006 19:49:00 +0000 http://www.kalafut.net/wordpress/?p=43#comment-23 Occasionally I’ll hear mention of ‘grid iron’, and basketball gets a token news update now and again (there are some US college players that are imported here for a year or two), but I’ve never seen any evidence that anyone here has played, watched or thought about baseball. On the flipside, net ball is very popular here but I doubt many in the US would have played or seen that one.

]]> By: Jeff the Bold http://nz.kalafut.net/?p=43&cpage=1#comment-22 Tue, 21 Mar 2006 19:07:00 +0000 http://www.kalafut.net/wordpress/?p=43#comment-22 It sounds like Olympic rugby would be roughly similar to Olympic baseball, which has now been deleted from the summer games for the same reasons that you were talking about; it is a sport that is dominated by only a few countries. To fill the void in the baseball world, they have inaugurated the World Baseball Classic (see http://www.worldbaseballclassic.com), which is supposed to run every four years I guess.

It hasn’t really caught on here, but I’ve been enjoying some of the competition. It’s been really big in the Asian and the Caribbean countries that have teams. I doubt that it has even merited a mention in NZ. The Aussies fielded a team, but they didn’t fare too well, so I suppose that is something for the Kiwis to celebrate. Tonight (20Mar06 — 21Mar06 afternoon NZ time) is the championship game between Japan and Cuba. Even Barbara — not usually a big baseball fan — is interested in this one.

]]> By: Christian http://nz.kalafut.net/?p=43&cpage=1#comment-21 Tue, 21 Mar 2006 00:57:00 +0000 http://www.kalafut.net/wordpress/?p=43#comment-21 My bracket basically collapsed with Illinois and NC out of the picture.
But how about those Braves?

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