Conference 7.286::sports_90

    I lift, ride a bike and play softball in the summer.
    
    I lift, play racquetball and b-ball in the winter.
    
    I hunt and/or fish year round.
    
    In between, I spend time with the wife ;^)
    
    Mark.

    
         B-ball is/was/probably always be my favorite sport to watch
    and participate in.  I play year round, indoor and outdoor.
    
         I plan on playing a lot more golf this summer.  I like it 
    because one has to relax in order to get a good drive on the ball.
    Great way to relieve stress.  Same goes for softball.
    
         As long as it's sunny and the temperature is warm enough, I 
    ride my bicycle.  Great for increasing stamina, endurance, and leg
    strength.
    
                                                 Glen J.

Off and on for the last ten years I've run.  Running is fun, and
is a perfect way for me to beat the stress that sometimes crops
up in life.

Right now I'm running 3.5 a day with a longer run on Saturdays.  Got
a race coming up the end of June, wanna take off some weight, and
really plan on sticking with it this time.  (See, I've got this
buddy who does about 8-10 a day, and this guy can eat ANYTHING 
and never put on an ounce!)

I like soccer, and have played that off and on.

Hike too.

Play golf (poorly), and bowl (a lot of fun).

Chainsaw


PS  The only thing I ever lift is anywhere between 12 and 25 oz and
    it tastes great...8^)

    Let's see...
    
    I run, run, run and run.
    Sometimes I bicycle, and then I run.
    I think about playing hoop or softball, and then I run.
    Couple times a year I go hiking, and then go for a run.
    
    When I get bored with these other sports, I run.
    
    (I also change diapers, but there isn't much sporting about that.)
    
    =Bob=
    
    P.S. RE: -1 - 'Saw, don't you mean it's less filling! ;*)
    
                                                                      

    
    I'm into caffeine, alcohol, and tobacco.  I sometimes even watch
    MTV.  Frisbee is O.K., but I don't do video games.  Women like me
    for my mind, when it's functioning.
    
    Dickster
    

    I lift weights year round.  It helps me relieve stress.  I think
    I'd go nuts if I couldn't make it to the gym for an extended period.
    
    I play competitive softball in the summer.  I'm a left fielder.
    They put us *young* guys in the outfield to chase down the
    shots some of the monsters in competitive softball hit.  When
    I get too old to play outfield, I'm gonna give it up and make
    golf my primary sport.
    
    I hunt and fish as well.  
    
    Claybone

    I run year round.
    
    I hike year round - using the trail system with only my feet - which
    is how it should be (read:  No mountain bikes on trails!!)
    
    I fish - want to get into salmon fishing now that  I'm in salmon
    country.
    
    I play golf - not too well, but I hack at it.
    
    I play hoops, football, baseball, frisbee, volleyball, anything
    to stay active.
    
    I work out at a club, starting a nautilaus program and swimming.
    
    I also do curls ala 'Saw...
    
    JD

    run 5 miles/day... basketball, soccer, tennis, racquetclub and hockey
    as often as humanly possible.
    
    sean

    Running is main sport,I enter about 15 races a year. In the winter,I
    lift 4 times a week,in the summer I reduce that to two. 
    
    I try to play other team games when possible,but running and lifting
    are the best because you don't have to depend on anyone else.

    I swam competitively for 8 years, 4-year varsity letterman for Ohio
    University Swim Team, butterfly.  Now I hate water.  Well, not really. 
    I still go to the YMCA and swim a mile or two every other day.  Nothing
    like the 25,000 yard practices we used to pull in college.  Gawd.
    
    I also play softball in the spring/summer and volleyball in the fall.
    
    And an occasional sports video game when there's a quarter burning a
    hole in my pocket in an arcade.  Is Wack-A-Mole a sport?  (no funny
    comments on that last one, yunz guys!)
    
    	--dan'l

    I currently play indoor and outdoor soccer, but playing baseball was
    always a passion of mine. I tried softball but it's not the same. I
    hate running although I do it. I also love to play foot-a-ball whenever
    Cactus Jack organizes a game.

    
    	I'm currently catching all the NASCAR races that I can! Let me tell
    you, it's Hell going up and down those steps just to go the restroom!
    
    	Then I have to pop all those beer tops! Whew! That's enough of a
    work-out to make somebody get intoxicated! :*)
    
    	Other-wise, I play some Hoop, some Golf and some under-water basket
    weaving...You should see how BLUE I get. :*)
    
    B.A.
    

    Play outdoor and indoor soccer to cover up for Metzger... softball
    (Slimy Swingers are 2-1)... volleyball, hoops (sort of)...
    
    Oh yeah, I guess I play tennis too... wonder why... basically whatever.
    Golf is for girly-men.  Play some pickup touch football and street
    hockey too, on occasion.  For real punishment, I watch the Tigers.

Completed the 15 mile Mountain bike race Saturday. This could be real fun 
there was mud, sand, washboards and trees. 
The pro riders were asking is that all ? I was saying "no mas". 

Jeff

    re .16
    
>    Oh yeah, I guess I play tennis too... wonder why... 

    Damn Walt, I thought that was obvious - to try to hit on some honeys
    at the indoor tennis clubs ... :-)    

>    Golf is for girly-men. 
    
    Agreed !
    
>    For real punishment, I watch the Tigers.
 
    ... but if you want real *interactive* punishment, you play the
    Pistons ... :-)
    
    DrM

    Weightlifting and running (sprints up to 400, and a couple of miles).
    
    Basketball, Softball in season, and a good game of football any
    time ... 
    
    Ah, nothing like a good 7-7 game of tackle in the park. 
    
    Any takers ?
    
    Doc

>    Ah, nothing like a good 7-7 game of tackle in the park. 
 	
    	Basketball or Football?  8^)
    
    sean   

Yeah, Detroit ain' no place for wimps...

On the night before Halloween, they light the place on fire.  I can't
figure out if it's to burn out old growth (like with your lawn) or
to try and give the aliens a beacon on their way to Cleveland.

The rest of the time the place is not for wimps either.  You've
heard the American Express commercial "Don't leave home without it"?
Well, in Detroit they have special ones that say "Don't leave home".

Hoe tsih schleps,
In case you dden to wonk(tm),
'Saw

    I think it is to encourage new growth, Frank.  God knows, they could
    use it.
    
    Vhat I like to do:
    
    Windsurfing (can't get enough of it, now I'm too damned far from
    warm water)
    
    Bowling (when I'm good, I'm really good.  When I'm bad, I'm embarassed)
    
    Archery (nothing like putting a few feet of shaft into something.
     Now I know how you guys feel.  ;>>>>>>>  )  
    
    ::ahem::
    
    Bicycling (nothing major, it's more fun that running)
    
    Swimming  (nothing major, but it's damned relaxing)
    
    Car racing (okie, I'm not into it, but dammit, I wanna be.  We have
    an old camaro that might make it to Enduro.  I wanna drive, can't
    be any harder than the highway.  How DOES one get started in this
    sport anyway????)
    
    Can't think of anything else at the moment.  
    
    ---kim

   Well.... I haven't been away. I've been right here.... working my BUNS
   off so everyone can get a raise. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! 

   And that's the troof!

   And then I open up and find a lady JN.

   Kinda warms the ole heart strings.

   A couple of FEET!?!?!?!?!

   MIKE JN

   PS

   	Sports I engage in.

   Usually hoops. This is the first winter I didn't play in an organized
   league (recuping from tendinitis... okay now)

   Footaball (but it's taking longer and longer to heal up)

   Skiing (downhill)

   Baseball (pickup.. not league... cause I still coach Little League, and
   the little bleeps take up most of my time).

   Golf (play in the DEC league. Just started two years ago, this'll be my
   third... and still striving towards mediocrity).

   Sex (recreational league only).

   Shooting (target, silhouette.... thinking of starting to do my own
   reloading).

   Hunting (not avid. I like to go get antelope for sausage, but most
   other hunting, I just like wandering around in the woods. In fact,
   you're liable to find me in the middle of a bunch of bushes reading a
   book, and looking around every once in awhile to see if any elk would
   like to be killed).

   Drinking (recreational only, the full contact competition league was
   disbanded, and several people got their peepees whacked).

   I will also play volley ball, horse shoes, or anything else you can
   think of....  as long as it's competition.

   Mike JN

    Pardon my ignorance, but what exactly is a Lady JN?  Is that a
    compliment or something to be wary of?  :)
    
    ---kim

            <<< Note 235.27 by WFOV11::APODACA "Oh, go sit down." >>>
                     -< We pause for this inane question >-

    Pardon my ignorance, but what exactly is a Lady JN?  Is that a
    compliment or something to be wary of?  :)
    
    ---kim

 LADY JN = lady junk noter..........

 I'd consider it a compliment  ;^)

mike

    
    ya mean lose on greyhounds /don :)
    

    re .29
    
    You mean you bet on buses ????
    
    pete ;-)

    re: Greyhounds.
    
    Yeah, betting on the width of the shotgun scatter is always a
    challenging activity....
    
    re: Mr. Michael JN
    
    A junk noter?  Well, I've never kept track of too many Chinese boats,
    but I'm honored, I think.  :)
    
    
    Some of the lesser known sports I participate in:
    
    Indoor fly-swatting
    Cat Vacuuming  ("no, they aren't bald, they're just very CLEAN")
    Acrobatic aluminum can-crushing.
    
    These things ought to be in the Olympics.
    
    ---kim
                            

    
    .32
    
    Kim, I like your style.
    
    Dickster
    

>>< Note 235.33 by MCIS1::DHAMEL "My other car is a SLOF" >
                                                    ^^^^


Dickster, don't forget to (tm) that baby, otherwise I might hafta
take ya to court 8^)


Kim, you're fitting right in.  Junk Noting is cool, or as George
Michael might say it's natural and free....

All of us Junk Noters have taken the first step:  we've admitted that
we have a problem.  I even spent time at the /Don Work Out Your
Addiction Farm to try and get cured.  But, like I said, we've taken
the first step, admitting we've got the problem, and we keep right
on doing it.

Some of us have been doing it so long that we're now members of Hawk's
Club, the Freakin' Lunatics.  I believe I inspired the club, due to
my (abnormal?) behavior at the Patriots Day Red Sox game, but that's
another story....


latered,
'Saw    

   Frankwa,

   	Junk Noting is not the problem.

   	JUNK NOTING IS THE  S O L U T I O N !!!!

   PS  Freakin' Lunatics are knot too BLAM!

   Mike JN

Mike JN  --

My solution is some Jack Daniels wif a little ice...

;^)

    I am a junk noter and I'm proud of it.  It all started Patriots
    Day (I'm proud to work for the only football team in America that
    has a holiday in its honor) when the Beachball Ninja Force was born.
    
    John

Play softball 4 nights a week (1B/OF).
Lift (Lats-R-US) every day at lunch.
Punish myself on the freakin stairmaster for 1/2 everyday.

Bowl (Candlepin, 111 avg.) 2 nights a week during the winter.

Pick up B-ball and football games whenever.

Yardwork...

daryll

    Softball in the spring and summer, bowling (candlepins - the *ONLY*
    bowling in New England) in the spring, winter and fall, bike riding,
    walking, cross country skiing.  Cain't run - it hurts my knees.
    
    John

    
    	Hoops! Indoor and outdoor. I play as often and as much as I can. I
    play almost every day at lunch and at least 2 nights a week. I also
    play softball in the summer and I enjoy biking. I'd like to try some
    x-country biking this year. Hopefully be ready by the end of the summer
    to do a trip or 2. That's about it.
    
    
    						Dana
    

    My main sport has become rugby since I started playing it in college in
    1980.  I am currently the first-side tight head prop for Austin RFC.  I
    run, walk, bike, and lift to keep in shape for rugby.
    
    Slow pitch softball (pitcher).  Played in the NRO league when I was
    there, now play in the Texas Instruments Co-Rec league for MCC.
    
    I did play basketball in the DEC Maynard league while I was in NRO. 
    Since coming down here I get into an occasional 3-on-3 pick up game.
    
    I play golf whenever there is a best ball tournament with plenty of
    friends and beer.  I do get out a few other times of the year when I
    haven't got much else to do.  Rugby and softball (especially rugby)
    take up alot of my time.  Adding golf would probably help me to get
    divorced.  Although my wife does like miniature golf (they call it
    "Putt-Putt" here).  I also can't bring myself to get real interested in
    a sport one has to play early on a Sunday morning.
    
    Since I moved to Texas my cross country skiing has suffered.  Although
    with the way the snowfall was for the couple of years before I moved I
    wasn't skiing much up there either.

    Had a crazy dream the other night:
    
    I was a goalie for some hockey team.  That's the first crazy part
    'cause I never played hockey in my life.
    
    The second crazy part was that Dan Marino was my center and Ian
    Astburry (lead singer for the rock group The Cult) was one of my
    defensemen--boy was he mean; I think he was checking some of our own
    players.
    
    Third crazy part was that I passed the puck from my goal to Marino who
    scored and I was credited with an assist.
    
    I can explain this dream in one of three ways:
    
    	- I have a secret desire to be a hockey player
    	- I should not eat a whole pizza before I go to bed
    	- I'm really f--ked up
    
    --dan'l

    I'll go with Door Number 3.
    
    Bob Hunt

    
    Dan'l a goalie on a hockey team with Ian Asbury and Dan Marino?
    
    Hmmmm.....let's look this one up in the "Little Golden Book of Freudian
    Dream Interpretation."
    
    Ah....here it is.  It says "you have a suicidal tendency toward
    joining a cult of dolphins."
    
    Your welcome.
    
    Dickster
    

    Dan, what kind of mushrooms did you put on your pizza, or better
    yet did you lick a frog before going to sleep?

Hey man, now I know who swiped my 'shrooms.  What a totally egregious
thing to do, dan'l-dude!

I mean, here I was wantin' to do some shrooms before the big JoJ
festivities, and I was out...but wait, I'd just bought some the day
before and I think I've remembered that I hadn't used them right dudes?

So anyway, I says to myself that maybe Adolf or Jimi had gotten into
them, but then I realized that they were just being dead this week so
that they couldn't have gotten into my shrooms, so then I realized that
some dude had pulled like the heinous crime of the decade by like
swiping my shrooms, ya know, and dude, I'm like really bummed out.

Like you know, dude, you should be excellent to each other dude, and
like, that means never having to take another guy's shrooms.  Steve
McQueen told me that two weeks ago when he was over for dinner with
Janis Joplin and Ronnie Van Zant and anyway, Steve said that Ali
always told him that like being excellent to each other meant never
taking another guy's shrooms, so like that was a pretty heinous thing
to do.

But anyway, I'll let it go this time....

So, party on dude, enjoy those shrooms, man....


Chainsaw

    
    
    Hockey 2-3 nites a week during the winter, organized (play in the Dec
    league and a couple of other ones). Also play through the summer. 
    
    Hoop at the park - we don't have to dribble in this league, makes it
    kind of interesting.
    
    Motorsports - Road race motorcycles, nothing like it in the world.
    
    Used to do a little boxing/kickboxing, but Don't like taking beatings.
    
    
    -TH

Well I found a new Mountain Bike Race. 

July 28th there will be a Colorado State Games race up Pikes Peak. The Race 
will start at the old ski area and climb the Pikes Peak Highway to the Summit. 
The race is 8 miles and about 4100 ft elevation climb.

    Jeff, you'll get your ass kicked in that race. That's for serious
    bikers, not Yuppie_Trendy_Blue_River_Mountain_Bikers like yourself.
    
    JoJ

I'm out to conquer the mountain not the bikers JoW(wimp). 
I expect to finish and then proceed to passout from oxygen depravation. 

    
         right now i'm into bowling but i always like to play
    basketball..... i also like to play tennis eventhough i won't be able
    to play it like agassi or edberg since i'm only a beginner.....on
    weekends i do my errands by riding my bike....... i also lift weights
    (also glasses of beer and wine)......i need to brush up on my
    volleyball- i used to be a player back in my college days..... and i
    also work out to stay fit(which i haven't done lately)....and in-
    between these athletic activities i do my stamp collection.

    Hello Everyone,
    
    I play as much sport as my body lets me!  Two or three evenings a week
    I play Action Cricket (Indoor) which originated from Australia, the
    weekend I play Indoor Softball and Indoor Netball (or Action Netball 
    as it is referred to) and Ten Pin Bowling.  Most of this is played in
    Kent where I come from, (Strood).  I also like to play Badminton when 
    I'm not playing the above and when I have any spare time!!
    
    I'd also like to find out if there are any other Indoor Cricket centres
    around the world and their whereabouts.
    
    Tracey

    Hey Stew, you really should get out more.....
    
    REK

    Tracey,
    
    Could you mail me the rules for this indoor softball ?  Thanks
    
    Wayne

    Racey,
    
    As a cricket fan, perhaps you can help keep me honest on my reporting
    of the third test in the Cricket Update (see note 330something).
    
    PJ

    RE: 235.58
    
    Wayne,
    
    I only have hardcopy of the rules.  If you let me know where you are
    I'll mail them onto you.
    
    Tracey

    RE:235.59
    
    PJ,
    
    Sorry, but I don't take much notice of the Test Match ... it's too slow
    for me ....!
    
    Tracey

    Yeah, but I thought you might know the rules....
    
    I'm just wingin' it!!!
    
    PJ

Well, it says what sports do you play, and I'm playing a brand new
sport (for me anyway)....

Mac finally got to me 8^)  Earlier this week I went to my very first
rugby practice, with the intentions of learning the game, getting
into shape, and seeing if this rugby stuff is as good as everyone
raves it is....

It is.  

I dare not call myself a rugby player yet, but I never been involved
in any sport where so many of the other players are so eager to help
an old, outta shape guy learn the skills necessary to play, and
give a lot of moral support also.

If any of you out there have ever thought of playing rugby, definitely
give it a try -- you won't regret it!

'Saw

    'Saw,
    
    I've tried nearly every sport and I must admit I did like rubgy, (only
    a mess around game!)  Mind you though, being only 5ft 2" and a girl I 
    didn't really have much of a chance so I gave that sport up!
    
    Tracey

>    I've tried nearly every sport and I must admit I did like rubgy, (only
>    a mess around game!)  Mind you though, being only 5ft 2" and a girl I 
>    didn't really have much of a chance so I gave that sport up!
    
Tracey,

I can imagine that.  I fully expect to get the living ____ beat out
of me at one time or another.  But we got talking about injuries last
night, and most of the guys said that you get bumps, scrapes, cuts
and bruises, but that knee injuries have been rare as have other
serious injuries...

I'll know soon, I suppose 8^)  But this team is very serious on
physical conditioning, so I think that'll help.  

And of course I'd always defer to Mac's greater knowledge and experience
to talk about that.  (In fact, at this point, Mac could change his
p-name to "Frank don't know Rubgy" and it would be pretty close to the
troof... But in time.......)

'Saw

    Studies have shown that rugby is no more injury prone than American
    football, and in some cases is less.
    
    Tracey, maybe you just weren't put into a proper position.  I've played
    with guys who I would consider small, but they could play and bounce
    right up after a tackle.  Rachael Berman who contributes to the
    conference occasionally plays for one of the best women's rugby teams
    in the U.S.  You might want to talk to her (if I remeber right her Node
    is GRAMPS, but check the rugby topic in here to be sure).

    If I didn't row in school, I'd definitely try out rugby.  It looks like a
    ton of fun and like a real hard contact game.  Just out of curiousity, how 
    do you find out how to meet up with adult league teams?  
       One thing I can't understand about rugby though:  some friends of
    mine have picked it up and supposedly they are pretty good.  They were
    a little wimpy in a lot of ways.  They were really good all
    around athletes, but I can't see them taking a good hit. What gives?
    I guess it's a lot like football in that it requires a lot of things to
    do well--speed, strength, agility,toughness--but not necessarily all of
    them.
    
    TomR  

    Tom (and anyone else), feel free to send me mail telling me the area
    you live in and I will be more than happy to let you know what rugby
    clubs are in that area and will try to tell you something about them if
    I can.  I have a copy of the National Directory of U.S. rugby clubs.

  >  One thing I can't understand about rugby though:  some friends of
  >  mine have picked it up and supposedly they are pretty good.  They were
  >  a little wimpy in a lot of ways.  They were really good all
  >  around athletes, but I can't see them taking a good hit. What gives?
  
     I think this highlights the critical difference between Rugby and
    American Football.  In football, there is a premium placed on strength
    and the ability to give or take a 'good hit'.  By contrast, in rugby,
    there is an art in tackling someone.  Brute force does not always stop
    a player from running with the ball whereas a carefully timed and
    executed tackle will stop someone dead in their tracks.
    
    PJ  

    
>        there is an art in tackling someone.  Brute force does not always stop
>    a player from running with the ball whereas a carefully timed and
>    executed tackle will stop someone dead in their tracks.
 
    Would that a lot of American Football coaches drummed this into
    their players.  Some of the best tacklers in the NFL, particularly
    on the special teams, are neither the biggest nor the strongest
    players on the roster, but they get the job done through the "art"
    of tackling.
    
    Dickster
    

    Dickster,
    
    Great P-Name!!!!  The movie was super, even my wife liked it!!!!
    
    Kev
    

    Yeah, but shouldn't that be......
    
    	"Erect it and SHE will come"
                                        
    
    Just a thought,
    PJ

    Well, where can I begin, let's say spring/summer:
    
    
    		baseball: 2 times a week, 
    		tennis  : 5 times a week
    		ball hockey(big in Canada):  twice a week
    (some days I play 2 sports)
    
    
    		in the fall/winter:
    
    		basketball:  3 to 4 times a week.	
                ice hockey:  2 to 4 times a week
    		indoor tennis:  once a month
    		squash:      :  once/2 weeks
    		ball hockey  : once every 3 weeks(in a gym)
    
    
    Oops I forgot I also started playing "ultimate"(frisbee sport)
    once a week in the summer
    And, of course I golf 20-30 times a year	
    Oops, touch football is also once a week, spring/summer.
    
    
    If any conflicts, I go to one which is most important.
    
    
    
    Jim

    Geez, I'm out of breath just *reading* that reply.
    
    My hat's off to you.   I can only assume you are single and childless. 
    If you're playing all these sports *AND* you're married with children,
    then you should bottle whatever you're doing and sell it.
    
    Bob Hunt

Speaking of `Married with Children':

Did you see the one where all the women start digging on Al?
He really starts groovin'
Then he starts wondering.
He says to Kelly:

Al:	`When you're as good looking as we are, is it wrong to flaunt it?'

Kelly:	`WRONG!?!?! Daddy, it's like an obligation! Like... like.... a
         duty or something. Like... you know... being won in a knife 
         fight!'

Also:

	Lasted night. `In Living Color'
	They were doing some `Ads' for new shows coming up.
	A couple of them were:

	Ray Charles In Charge
	The Stevie Wonder Years
		`They're blind, they're Black
		 and they're back to back.'

Mike JN