Worst "Sport" to write about

[Beef03]

Now I am using the term sport liberally here, I don't really consider it a sport yet somehow it ends up being something I have to cover – Synchronized swimming. I have been staring at the screen for the past hour and a half, and nothing. No other quasi-sport does this to me quite so baddly. I ****ing hate this sport. Would rather cover a long distance pissing competition. It is just painful.

 

[girl friday]

i've always hated wrestling. for the way macho men, especially high schoolers, go nuts at the slightest implication that they might be gay (not that there's anything wrong with that), it's all very homo-erotic to me. the holds, the unitards. it kinds gives me the heebie-jeebies.

when i covered high schools, i'd cover anything before i would go to a wrestling match.

 

[EStreetJoe]

try writing a feature on:
A) the Darts league some of the local bars have
or
B) the big area bowling tournament

then get back to me on bad sports to write about.

 

[audreyld]

I think wrestling is sort of the very essence of sport, but that's an argument for another time.

I think anything that's judged is probably not a sport. An athletic competition, sure. But not really a sport.

 

[Trouser_Buddah]

As far as high school sports go, swimming and cross country were the worst for me...

 

[John]

I hate writing about volleyball. Actually, it's not the writing I hate, it's covering volleyball that I loathe.

 

[EStreetJoe]

only high school sports I never covered in my 15 years as a high school writer were cross country, golf, volleyball, gymnastics and fencing.

 

[Mystery_Meat]

I think I've covered every high school sport this state has to offer. Unless some of the far-west schools do rifle or something. But I've seen it all, including golf, volleyball, lacrosse (which I'd like to see become a much bigger sport here), field hockey, gymnastics and cross country. I have seen much.

 

[Write-brained]

"The only thing more boring than track is field."

Read that quote in a book a long time ago and never forgot it, though I have no idea who said it.

 

[CentralIllinoisan]

I hate writing about volleyball. Actually, it's not the writing I hate, it's covering volleyball that I loathe.

Apparently you haven't looked hard enough at the spandex shorts.

 

[John]

"The only thing more boring than track is field."

Read that quote in a book a long time ago and never forgot it, though I have no idea who said it.

I believe it was in a Dan Jenkins book.

 

[Write-brained]

"The only thing more boring than track is field."

Read that quote in a book a long time ago and never forgot it, though I have no idea who said it.

I believe it was in a Dan Jenkins book.

Just a big book of sports quotes, if I remember correctly, that I read over and over when I was a boy ... so now I have hundreds of memorable quotes stuck in my memory without any idea who said them ...

 

[Central-KY-Kid]

"the only thing worse than track is field"

Wasn't it Jones Ramsey, former Texas SID?

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=%22than+track+is+field%22+Jones+Ramsey&btnG=Search

 

[ripthejacker]

The darts and bowling league feature probably takes the cake, but I recently covered a tri-meet wrestling event. At the ultra-competitive event, tens of 112-pound backup varsity boys wrestlers from the local, rural area competed in a match where noone kept score because the "tri-meet" didn't actually count towards anything.

I had a blast.

 

[Corky Ramirez up on 94th St.]

field hockey. hands down. don't understand it, although I tried. penalty strokes? sorry.

While an undergrad at UConn I specifically went to a game to study it. I thought I had figured out but there were so many ******* whistles I had no idea what was called when.

I did the same with jai alai (study, not cover, thank god) and it began making sense soon thereafter. Field hockey? Nope.

 

[Del_B_Vista]

Somebody had a great Duck, Duck, Goose story back in the EssJay day ...

 

[alleyallen]

Cross country, wrestling and power lifting....ugh!

 

[EStreetJoe]

Field hockey is easy to cover once you understand the game. It's easier to explain while watching than it is in trying to type in descriptions. I was fortunate in that the college I went to is a D-III powerhouse in field hockey so I picked up some of the sport there. Then when I had to cover high school field hockey as a beat, I wound up at the same game early in the season as the veteran field hockey writer (20+ years of doing it, he'd rather cover field hockey than football) from the competition. Friendly guy and during the course of that one game he explained pretty much anything I'd ask about and I figured out why the whistle blew when he'd complain there shouldn't have been one.

 

[EStreetJoe]

The darts and bowling league feature probably takes the cake, but I recently covered a tri-meet wrestling event. At the ultra-competitive event, tens of 112-pound backup varsity boys wrestlers from the local, rural area competed in a match where noone kept score because the "tri-meet" didn't actually count towards anything.

I had a blast.

The darts story was a feature. The bowling story was a "game story" on the tournament results from that day... team scores and standings, quotes from the bowlers, a paragraph or two of play-by-play (strikes in a row, the tough spare converted, etc.).

 

[Trouser_Buddah]

Then when I had to cover high school field hockey as a beat...

:o