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Message: [QUOTE="awhom111, post: 4369329, member: 8683"] The generally accepted origins of netball are a set of modified basketball rules for women arriving in England and then being tweaked again. It then spread from there to elsewhere in the Commonwealth of Nations and there are plenty of places where it quite popular still. In Australia, it is pretty competitive with basketball in terms of overall popularity and there are a few women who play both sports simultaneously. On the island of Britain, its existence has actually impeded acceptance of basketball, including on the men's side. Imagine if only softball existed in the United States and as is the case at the competitive level, was primarily played by women. A lot of male sports fans would reject baseball if it were introduced after that because they would perceive it as being a "women's sport". Even though baseball actually originated in England, its lack of popularity over time has caused rejection of it because British people see it as an American offshoot of rounders, which is a children's game there sort of like the scale of kickball in the United States, instead of both games having common origins with rounders never becoming a sport while baseball crossed the barrier from recreational activity to being organized under a common rule set. [/QUOTE]