why isnt cricket in the olympics

-All the females in ice dance look like hi-class mid-mileage HOOKERS. ALL OF THEM.

-All the German chicks in Nordic combined look like Randal from "Clerks" with long hair and light acne.....

-Apollo Anton Ohno represents but his face bothers me....he looks like the kind of guy that does the following at a party: 1) when a really good fistfight is about to break out, he breaks it up. 2) wears shorts. 3) cockblocks.

-The men's mogul skiing judges were fucked up more than the womens (Mosely didn't even medal?!?) as were the snowboard pipe judges (Ross Powers is a hula-hooping, no-grabbing styleless punk)....it's like the judges for all the "style" sports are all eurotrash oldfolks that have no idea what's actually considered good style by people that actually do the sports, dig?

-I CAN'T BELIEVE I BIGGED UP HANNAH H. THAT MUCH AND THEN FORGOT TO WATCH MTV DIARY!!!

-I love how unhealthy the euro distance ski-jumpers look....i counted 3 skinny muthafiggles with white spots on their teeth....

-Lots of NBC's commentary at night for sports that didn't make the daytime cut is recorded after the fact so it all syncs up to the editing....it sucks the life out knowing the amped-up commentator knows how everything turned out and is just plain bullshitting. w3rd

THEY CAN PLAY TWENTY20 NOW

(Jagger, back me up on this now you're back.)

I've been calling for this since 2020 began, but not very loudly, as I don't really care much about the Olympics. Would be good, though.

eh all these super popular team sports basketball hockey cricket etc they just dont feel olympic theyre already all set up w/their own situations they should just do that - olympics is best for weirdo shit like the one where u ski then shoot a guy

Basketball at the Olympics is good because it's wonderful to see some relaxed Americans for once.

Nah, keep cricket out of the Olympics. I don't even think football should be there. But, in terms of making lots and lots of money for somebody or other, it would be a good idea - just think how many more people (millions, hundreds of millions) would watch the Olympics in India (and the subcontinent)

Would have been great to see the Chinese Cricket Team, as they would have qualified as hosts.

20/20 would be ok

China vs India cricket match - surely the biggest potential audience in sport?

Can't wait for the test series.

It's funny when you see these old threads revived and see yourself bringing the knowledge, like it isn't something you just looked up. I have absolutely no memory of knowing that stuff about cricket in the Olympics...

YEAH PROBABLY LOOKED UP WIKIPEDIA HEY

this would be the only way cricket would get shown on American TV
someday...

I've said before that a sports version of BBC America -- with cricket, darts and snooker plus whatever else they could get rights to -- would be on 24/7 in my office.

ESPN Britshers

I'd watch the hell out of that. If there's not any international MMA, just show some Aussie rules football.

i wish i could give you access to all of this stuff i'm able to watch in return for your tennis channel ;_;

Rather a shame that the man who looked most likely to break cricket in the US is starting a 110-year jail term today.

Surely it has to be on cable, or something, though? Nowhere a significant number of Indians live would be without it.

?! to whom are you referring?

Allen Stanford.

rip big man, heaven needed a sleazy cricket-loving fraudster

ah yes, "Sir" Allen.

wait a few years for a bigger south asian diaspora in the US. if that doesn't do it nothing will.

ferget cricket on USA/Canada TV, I wanna see POLO!

http://www.vanityfair.com/politics/features/2009/07/allen-stanford200907/_jcr_content/par/cn_contentwell/par-main/cn_pagination_contai/cn_image.size.allen-stanford-0907-01.jpg

good times

but yes, it'll be the cashed-up South Asian IT workers that will push Cricket to the heights of Arena Football and Lacrosse in those United States of America

here's hoping, we just got an arena football team this year

i was about to say that there's no reason for cricket not to be an olympic sport considering the fact that baseball is one and has just as few countries playing it but googling shows that it is out starting from this year's olympics (first sport to be kicked out since polo in 1936 says wiki !)

Baseball as an olympic sport never really made sense anyway. Major league baseball isn't going to interrupt the season so the players can go to the olympics so you end up with a bunch of minor leaguers. The olympics should be for the best athletes in the world.

Although I suspect that there are more countries which play baseball than cricket.

i'd venture that a larger number of ppl in the world play/care abt cricket than baseball, even if th number of countries isn't that diffnt

basically it's USA, Japan, and Central America/parts of south America for baseball
vs. south Asian subcontinent, the anglophone world minus USA, some Africa, some Arab world

ya poorly phrased up there, i meant it in the way m bison explained, population-wise.

I think Bud Selig, Dr. Morbius and a few others are involved in a conspiracy to keep cricket off of US tv.

quick, dial mi6 for some undercover murdering

this reminds me, the other day i was talking with my dad about cricket and we were wondering what other sports there were in which the second team knows exactly how much they have to score to win? i'm talking about one day cricket & twenty20 here, where one team bats, puts up a score and then the other team has to beat that. most sports have both teams trying to score at the same time (football, basketball, handball, hockey, rugby etc), stuff like baseball you have multiple rounds etc.

I guess in baseball in the bottom of the 9th

btw this fact is one of the reasons cricket is so entertaining to me... the end of games where the batting team knows exactly how many runs it needs and how many balls and wickets are left makes it really tense !

don't totally agree with you there m bison, mostly cos you don't have a fixed amount of bowling. bottom of the ninth you can get 3 outs in 3 balls or get endless runs scored against you. in cricket you know you only have x balls left to score x runs.

but if you're the home team and you are down, you know exactly how many runs need to be scored to win. it's not perfectly analogous to cricket bc there you know the precise number of bowls available to do it, but I think it meets the scoring criteria

i'm totally not good at explaining what to me makes a huge difference between baseball and cricket. but basically baseball lacks the whole urgency of the last few overs in cricket imo (keep in mind i'm totally not a baseball fan and have probaby seen less than 10 games in my entire life, which probably means i shouldn't even be making such comparisons).

its a bit past 11pm here and i'm a bit drunk so i really can't seem to be able to make my point so i'll just leave it at that. but if you have any other sports that come to mind about the whole chasing a score, i'd like to know what they are.

oh I can't think of any myself and it's 10:30 in the morning here.
I mean, there are similarly exciting moments in most sports when a team is down a large sum and slowly comes back to win the game in the end. but there's lots of back and forth in basketball, hockey, or American football.