Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/06/01
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Cricket is not a sport - it's culture ;-) Douglas - "often at Headingley in his youth" Sharp (from the home of all good cricketers - Yorkshire (e.g. "Fiery Fred Truman", Brian Close, Sutcliffe, Tunnicliffe and many other historical greats) Jim Hemenway wrote: > Adam, et al: > > I think that some have taken my comment too seriously. > > I was kidding Nathan because he, (in very good humor) objected when I > wrote "He could change the way Americans ignore soccer!" soon after > the announcement that said player was going to move to California to > play for some LA team. > > Jim, "Cricket is really a sport?" Hemenway > > > Adam Bridge wrote: > >> On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 10:57 PM, Frank Filippone >> <red735i@earthlink.net> wrote: >> >>> <snip> >>> BTW, there are a lot of various types of Latinos here, that seem to >>> be the >>> majority of soccer lovers... so as much as the US Domestics have no >>> idea, >>> there is a large resident population that really does care..... >>> >> >> >> Lots of the younger crowd know and follow soccer here also. It's >> heavily played in my town and many of the others around here by kids >> starting at age 5. High school soccer is very intense and pulls in >> good crowds. >> >> Unless it's baseball I've sort of given up on pro team sports. I sorta >> follow American-style football. Don't do the other pro sports at all >> -- mostly I follow college and that locally. Probably I should get a >> rivalry going with Frank since UC Davis is in the same conference as >> Long Beach now....<grin> >> >> Curiously I'm quite detached about the Olympics this year. I'd like to >> care, even about the swimming in which I was heavily involved in the >> past as an official, but the money and the corruption and the politics >> make me wretch. I wouldn't pay a dime to go to an Olympic event at >> this point even if they were around the corner... >> >> Adam >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >