sultan_emerr Posted March 24, 2007 Report Share Posted March 24, 2007 Millions of cricket fans stunned by India's World Cup loss to Sri Lanka = http://in.news.yahoo.com/070324/210/6dnqk.html Quote Link to post Share on other sites
bobbynichols Posted March 24, 2007 Report Share Posted March 24, 2007 Perhaps why they lost:While conceding his squad did not meet expectations, Chappell said people should "realize it's just a game."Sports is BIG business. Nationalistic/regional/local pride tweeks the psyche of the sports fan. Gambling, whether legal or illegal, panders to people who dally in the perturbations of sports probability. Sport is a spectacle, a past-time, an ad generator and product pusher. Sport is where parents have the dream whereby they might live more comfortably if their son or daughter makes the big time OR at the very least allow their children a college education based on athletics and not scholarship. It's just a game? Perhaps in an ideal world... not ours. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
JDoors Posted March 25, 2007 Report Share Posted March 25, 2007 ... Sports is BIG business. Nationalistic/regional/local pride tweeks the psyche of the sports fan. Gambling, whether legal or illegal, panders to people who dally in the perturbations of sports probability. Sport is a spectacle, a past-time, an ad generator and product pusher. Sport is where parents have the dream whereby they might live more comfortably if their son or daughter makes the big time OR at the very least allow their children a college education based on athletics and not scholarship. It's just a game? Perhaps in an ideal world... not ours. Well, leave me out of it, watching OTHER people play sports is BORING. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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