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Give UConn an added string of Nationals and .. ???

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Absurd imo. Beyond absurd. Unless I'm missing your point.

You think "judged sports" are going to overtake soccer on the world stage?

In USA you think it will overtake football?
What I'm saying is that the world of sports is moving in the direction of judged contests and away from competitive contests. Recently, the Olympics considered removing wrestling, a sport that goes back to the Greek games themselves while adding what seems like a million-and-one "new" entries all sharing one thing in common: winners and losers are all determined by a panel of experts rather than an objective standard. Will soccer and football disappear in a decade? Of course not, but they are on the wrong side of the trend.
 
What I'm saying is that the world of sports is moving in the direction of judged contests and away from competitive contests. Recently, the Olympics considered removing wrestling, a sport that goes back to the Greek games themselves while adding what seems like a million-and-one "new" entries all sharing one thing in common: winners and losers are all determined by a panel of experts rather than an objective standard. Will soccer and football disappear in a decade? Of course not, but they are on the wrong side of the trend.

I couldn't disagree more. They are popular in part because they are competitive w/o judges.

You get a few irrelevant sports in the Olympics that people can stomach for once every 4 years it's a novelty.
 
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