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Sporting News' Best Sports Cities out

Discussion in 'Journalism topics only' started by apseloser, Oct 7, 2008.

  1. TheSportsPredictor

    TheSportsPredictor Well-Known Member

    I should have known Ryan Sonner would know. Ryan Sonner knows everything there is to know -- except for the definition of mercy!!
     
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  2. JackReacher

    JackReacher Well-Known Member

    Actually, the list is based on figures from Oct. 2007 to Oct. 2008, so the Titans' AFC title and the Indians' AL pennants are worthless.
     
  3. Hustle

    Hustle Guest

    No. 212! Greyhound pride!

    Suck it, Natchitoches!

    More seriously, Washington should not be 10. There's one team of relevance, the rest are only important when they're winning.
     
  4. So Boulder and Denver are lumped together, and Ypsilanti and Ann Arbor are thrown in with Detroit, but Bethlehem, Allentown and Easton are separate.
     
  5. 2muchcoffeeman

    2muchcoffeeman Well-Known Member

    Never, ever doubt the Hatters.

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  6. Bubbler

    Bubbler Well-Known Member

    This is annually the silliest story of the year. Totally unquantifiable.
     
  7. JackReacher

    JackReacher Well-Known Member

    Exactly. Annually. Which means your favorite team's championship in 1995 or 2004 are meaningless. It's all about what's happened in the last 12 months. Although, an overall Best Sports Cities list would be interesting.
     
  8. tapintoamerica

    tapintoamerica Well-Known Member

    Here's what I don't get: Ypsilanti, Mich., and Detroit are 36 miles apart but are consolidated into one area. Burlington, N.C., and Elon, N.C., are contiguous but are separate cities in this survey.
     
  9. playthrough

    playthrough Moderator Staff Member

    Argh. Make the lists stop.

    I glanced at it for a half-second and thought Augusta, Ga., at No. 264 is low. Being the center of the sports world for a week every year has gotta count for more.
     
  10. slappy4428

    slappy4428 Active Member

    And Ann Arbor is 7 miles west of Ypsi...
     
  11. Football_Bat

    Football_Bat Well-Known Member

    Dallas is 3rd because they don't have Denton dragging it down. :D

    Another example of why this list is stupid and has been every year it has come out: Dallas-Fort Worth is combined as one city even though they're 30 miles apart and in separate counties. Denton is equidistant to the two and is today almost indistingishable from the other northern suburbs, yet is separate on this list. Fort Worth has exactly as many pro and D-I college programs (zero and one, respectively) as Denton does.

    That Denton is No. 130 (fixed) on a list of 400 is remarkable, but c'mon.
     
  12. Twoback

    Twoback Active Member

    After all these years, you'd think people would understand the concept.
    It's clearly about whose city is hottest now on the field.
    If Atlanta somehow won a World Series and made the Super Bowl, it'd rank up there at 1-2-3 even though the city does a lousy job supporting its teams.
     
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