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That's what you have to pay for being too good for too long.
How no one cares about the American national teams in basketball and baseball, 2 of the top 3 sports, compared to the attention the USMNT is getting in this world cup? I know the Americans are a fun scrappy underdog to root for but still..
That's what you have to pay for being too good for too long.
There's a baseball national team?
There's a baseball national team?
ok I've done enough damage
A) Not enough nations know Baseball exists
B) Basketball is too height based. Bosnia Herzegovina has 3 Million people. How many males are over 6 foot 6 and interested in athletics? Etc.
& soccer is a great babysitting tool.
lol soccer
ok I've done enough damage
Not really. Baseball is fading in popularity overall. As for basketball, the US men's team is expected to dominate and have little compe ion. As a result, fans don't pay attention. The reason soccer is getting so much attention is because we are always the underdogs, and Americans love a good underdog story.
It's ingrained in our history. An underdog nation who comes of age and dominance and it reminds us of our supposed fabric. That is, unless your black or brown skinned then you are still perpetually stuck in the underdog role.
Ya cynic, you.
The ring thru my nose is for Girl, not ESPN.
Or, Sterling perpetually stuck in the gallows there in Los Angeles.
I enjoyed watching the US baseball team before the Ioc ed em
How many countries play bball professionally? Same with baseball? Soccer has leagues all over the world. The World Cup is a huge event. USA BBall is expected to win......so when the USA soccer team starts doing well of course people will tune in because it's surprising.
...& ESPN says so.
Basketball is the fastest growing sport in the world. So there's that.
Don't hate on the WBC...There's a baseball national team?
Don't say it. The world's tallest population resides in the region that covers Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Albânia.
http://www.naturalheightgrowth.com/2...-dinaric-alps/
1)Average Height by Country (Youth:20-30 years)
Country/Average Male Height (cm)/population
1)Average Height (Males) in FT/IN (younger-20-30 years)
Average Height by Country (Youth:20-30 years)
Country/Average Male Height (ft/in)/population
Netherlands 6'0.1" 16318199
Montenegro 6'0'' 625266
Iceland 5'11.5" 319355
Denmark 5'11.3" 5413392
Serbia 5'11.2" 10159046
Croatia 5'11.1" 4496869
Sweden 5'11" 8986400
Slovenia 5'11" 2007711
Czech Republic 5'11" 10246178
Germany 5'11" 82424609
Norway 5'10.9" 4737171
Luxembourg 5'10.7" 486006
Estonia 5'10.7" 1307605
Slovakia 5'10.7" 5397036
Austria 5'10.6" 8174762
Belgium 5'10.5" 10348276
Poland 5'10.2" 38626349
Finland 5'10.1" 5214512
Switzerland 5'10.1" 7450867
Greece 5'10" 10647529
Australia 5'10" 19913144
United Kingdom 5'9.9" 60270708
United States 5'9.9" 293027571
Latvia 5'9.9" 2023825
New Zealand 5'9.9" 3993817
Hungary 5'9.8" 10106017
Lithuania 5'9.8" 3565205
Ireland 5'9.7" 3969558
Ukraine 5'9.5" 47732079
France 5'9.4" 60424213
Canada 5'9.4" 32507874
Russia 5'9.4" 143782338
Israel 5'9.4" 7112359
Turkey 5'9.3" 68893918
Bulgaria 5'9.3" 7500000
Spain 5'9.1" 40280780
Italy 5'8.8" 58057477
Jamaica 5'8.6" 2804332
Romania 5'8.5" 22355551
Azerbaijan 5'8.5" 8177717
South Korea 5'8.4" 48598175
Uruguay 5'8.4" 3399237
Argentina 5'8.3" 39144753
Iran 5'8.3" 67503205
United Arab Emirates 5'8.3" 9205651
Taiwan 5'8" 22920946
Portugal 5'7.9" 10524145
Tunisia 5'7.8" 9974722
Algeria 5'7.8" 32129324
Côte d'Ivoire 5'7.8" 18373060
Japan 5'7.8" 127333002
Hong Kong 5'7.8" 7210505
South Africa 5'7.7" 42718530
Gambia 5'7.7" 1735464
China 5'7.6" 1298847624
Brazil 5'7.5" 184101109
Ghana 5'7.5" 23382848
Colombia 5'7.4" 42310775
Cameroon 5'7.3" 16063678
Chile 5'7.3" 15823957
Singapore 5'7.2" 4353893
Qatar 5'7.2" 1699435
Venezuela 5'7.1" 23542649
Paraguay 5'7.1" 6191368
Egypt 5'7" 76117421
Cuba 5'6.8" 11308764
Thailand 5'6.6" 64865523
Panama 5'6.5" 3661868
Saudi Arabia 5'6.5" 25795938
Mongolia 5'6.3" 2751314
Costa Rica 5'6.1" 4586353
Malawi 5'6.1" 13931831
Malaysia 5'6" 23522482
Bahrain 5'6" 718306
Iraq 5'5.9" 25374691
Nigeria 5'5.8" 138283240
Mexico 5'5.7" 104959594
Ecuador 5'5.6" 14483499
Peru 5'5.5" 27544305
Bolivia 5'5.4" 10496285
North Korea 5'5.4" 22697553
Sri Lanka 5'5.2" 20064776
El Salvador 5'5.2" 5744113
Vietnam 5'5" 82689518
India 5'4.9" 1065070607
Philippines 5'4.6" 86241697
Indonesia 5'4.2" 238452952
Cambodia 5'4" 13363421
It's difficult to put on a Baseball game. 9 gloves, balls, bats, helmets. A baseball field with mounds. Even in the USA kids are forced to play baseball on Soccer & Football fields.
Soccer is ever growing in the USA commercially. Up until a few years ago you couldn't even watch Top European leagues on television. Now EPL is available on NBC & Bundesliga (German) is joining Fox. If MLS can continue adding quality overseas players, something special could occur.
I remember the year I attended school in Vancouver 1998. They didn't even have a Baseball team. Basketball was #2 behind Hockey. I played Basketball & Rugby.
But AVERAGE...most of the world doesn't have its own purposely inbred over hundreds of years super human athlete pool to draw from
I guess you could say the NBA is one of the only positive things to come from hundreds of years of slavery
national average heights are increasing (especially some 3rd world countries thanks to improved living environments) so even if you're at or slightly above your nation's average, it's nothing worth cheering for because you're probably in the bottom quarter of your generation imho.
America watches basketball all the time.
They watch soccer once every four years just like swimming, gymnastics, curling, and skiing.
Cowherd has an answer for this, Mel, but, it's convoluted and has to do with liberals, old white people, mostly old white men, Fox News, young people, demographics, + a wing & a prayer.
Gallows my ass. He made 2 billion from a team that wasn't worth half that. That's some fancy ass gallows.
^ this
Got no idea what Sterling is complaining about. If some er offered me twice what my car is worth, I'd sell it to him in an instant.
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