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I happen to enjoy women's beach volleyball.

Yup, and Pro Women’s Tennis. French Open is going on right now. I got to watch Anna Kalinskaya win today. It was an eventful match

Well, there is that. I was happy to see a couple days ago that Serina is trying to make a comeback.

Soccer, every bit as exciting as competitive paint drying.

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Zero interest in any of it.

I'm with ya', brother. Watching paint dry is more exciting than soccer (or football to the unwashed).

Edit: Guess I should have read the post above mine.

I feel that way about most any sport on TV, though nothing against those that like them.

Makes me want to take a nap just reading about it.

It just started today and I’ve already grown tired of hearing about it. I have dear friends that love the game and have even played the game at a high level but I just cannot get into the game. I don’t watch much of any sports nowadays but I find soccer particularly dis interesting.

There is nothing American about Soccer it's a 3rd world sport.

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I've got to remember that line next week!

Sports were meant to be fun. Nowadays the salaries, hype, expense, and celebrity opinions have ruined much of it. This certainly includes soccer.

I watched a little, maybe 5 minutes, ping pong on TV a few days ago. I won’t be devoting that much time to the World Cup. In fact, this post is all the attention I’ll have devoted to it.

Two days ago while driving through Atlanta, GA, my son and I saw a sign over the roadway that said something about expecting additional traffic for a week or so due to a sporting event and I wondered out loud what sporting event could screw up traffic in Atlanta? Fortunately, yesterday’s drive through the Elk Capital of Michigan, Atlanta, was completely uneventful except for the two cars when I arrived at the four-way stop that were trying to figure out who goes first. The locals call it Spaghetti Junction.

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Originally posted by preten2b:
Sports were meant to be fun. Nowadays the salaries, hype, expense, and celebrity opinions have ruined much of it. This certainly includes soccer.

Don't forget the entitlement, arrests for various offenses and the teams/organizations trying to cover up for them.

Boring to watch, fun to play.

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Curling. Lot's of action. Very exciting to watch.

I used to be on a drinking team with a bowling problem.

Friend is going to Toronto, cheapest tickets he could get were $1000. Said they were face value 600 ea. and taxes fees etc.

Don’t know how “3rd world sports” can demand such insane prices.

ZERO INTEREST!

Less than zero interest. Never liked soccer, never liked the characterization as "football" which it is not.

I care just enough about the World Cup, soccer or almost any other sport to write this post about how I don't care about them.

Watching six year olds play soccer . It's cute for about three minutes and then you start praying for rain .

In high school, I switched from football to soccer, and got a few partial scholarships from schools in Ohio and Indiana. I declined them and took an academic scholarship from OSU Marion (which I blew).

I did play intramural at OSU.
I try to watch bits and pieces of it, but I just never could watch it on tv or in person.

I really fell out a few years ago with all the whining and flopping BS.

What surprised me though, is when my friend texted and emailed me that he is watching it.. Blew me away... I have known him for 36 years.. Went to high school and college together, got thrown out of bars together, played sports , etc...

The last thing I would have ever imagined coming from him.

Then, he said his daughter was really into soccer.. Now it aligns..

I did spend the weekend though watching the World Nations Rugby Cup. (NZ, South Africa, England)

I got up about 445 on Tues, and starting the USA vs Ireland in the U20 Rugby Tournament. The Irish was dominating and fast.

((In all fairness to soccer, Rugby is not the same ball as it used to be, they are getting soft also))

I was amazed at all the soccer watch parties around the Raleigh/Durham/Chapel Hill area. I can see sitting in a bar but people are at watch parties outside in the 100 degree heat.

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Watching six year olds play soccer . It's cute for about three minutes and then you start praying for rain .

Then, when the rain starts, they stop and jump up and down in puddles as the ball whizzes by.