Table tennis. If I want to see a Chinese man hunched over a table rapidly flicking one hand, I'd go to the private area of a Beijing internet cafe.
Even if you don't like golf for me The Ryder cup is one of the most exciting sporting events. The last 2 have been incredible.
Match Play is far more exciting for the spectator than stroke play. It's also arguably more exciting for the players and yet most of the time most of us play stroke play. ???
2014 WC S-F and Final involving Argentina. Messi + Aguero + Higuain = no goals in almost 4 hours of football!
I'd honestly watch anything. I'll watch One Man and His Dog. Handball. Squash. Badminton. However, I don't really watch any Womens Sport.
The fact that other sports are harder to do at a very minimally competent level doesn't mean they are better or more interesting to do at a serious or competitive level. It does give their afficionados a cudgel to beat golfers with, though, which I enjoy taking up on occasion. I fear for any adult who likes fake wrestling for any reason other than a love of bad camp or a strange sexual fetish. I enjoyed 'Rasslin' as a child, though. Studio Wrestling, as it was called remains of anthropological interest. In a nutshell, it was created for Italian Pittsburghers. The good guys were almost all Italian (Sammartino, DeFazio, Denucci) and the villains were mostly of other ethnicities, most prominently Polish. The ethnic hostilities of the one city in the world designed for ethnic strife (that I know of) somehow acted themselves out in panto on a marvelously cheesy tv show. The thing I never wrapped my head around was how Sammartino was the supposed "World Champion" when he was always on a local show.
I get the impresssion that the USA thinks the USA IS the world hence your World Series games which certainly do NOT include the world. It's the world but not as we know it Jim!
Don't tell me there's something in the world besides the US! That's not what I learned in school. But as for the titles: World 'Rasslin' Champion? A fake sport ought to have a fake title. World Series? This one actually got overtaken by events. In 1903, when it was invented, baseball was only played seriously and professionally in the US. In an ideal world, the purveyors of the World Series would have downgraded it to something like, well, the North American Major League Championship. But people who downgrade their own titles are thin in the field. In any case, though, even at the beginning, it should have been called "The White World Series," since it excluded many of the best players for having excessive melanin in their skin. It's interesting how racism did and didn't define participation in US (and other sports). Non-whites were excluded from baseball largely thanks to one asshole named Cap Anson. But no one prevented Jack Johnson from being heavyweight champion more than a century ago. And the US Olympic Committee picked a squad in 1912 that included African Americans, Indians and an Asian American. When he was criticized, the man who picked the team said, "I thought I was supposed to choose the best athletes."
