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The Future of Space Sports
Loether writes "Space.com has a fun article about how astronauts aboard the ISS play 'sports' in zero gravity. It talks about learning how to throw in a straight line instead of the arc we all take for granted, relay races, and using large water filled bags as medicine balls. 'We realized that you could toss and catch and then go for a ride on this big thing as it takes you away.' The astronauts also put out a request for new ideas for space sports. Have any suggestions?"
The department is usually a total throwaway that I don't even bother reading it. Kind of like most articles.
Reviewing just the first hour of video games.
Are you thinking of The Menace From Earth? I know that was the first thing I thought of.
No folly is more costly than the folly of intolerant idealism. - Winston Churchill
Wait really? What a ridiculously misguided statement! Seriously, who is modding this up? Let`s take a quick look to see how inaccurate you are.
First off, let`s decide what sports to look at. I`ll go with the basketball and the NBA, MLB for baseball, and the NFL for football. I won't even count NHL hockey, and leave one of the biggest sports in the country NASCAR, off the board for a few reasons, A) I think you weren`t considering drivers athletes at all when making that claim, and B) them being termed athletes in the first place is a debatable claim.
So first off the NBA, let's look at the Season Racial and Gender Report Card 2006-2007
This states that 75% of NBA players are African-American, and during the 1994-95 season there was an all-time high of 82%. Hmm, not quite 90%+, but let`s look at other sports!
The MLB, which is notoriously losing it`s African-American makeup, had only 8.5% African-American players during the 2005 season! 2005 Race and Gender Report Card
Wow! 90%+ is there, but wait! It`s 90%+ NON-African-American players! And if you want to bring out Latinos and other races into the picture, 28.7% of players were Latino, and 2.5% were of Asian descent. Leaving over 50% of MLB players white! Not exactly one race being better at something than others now is it?
Finally we can move onto the NFL. Which in 2003 had a historic high of 69% African-American players. 2004 Race Report
So no not really 90%+ black players at all! In fact not even close in any of the major sports leagues in the United States. I`m reasonably sure the statistics are consistent for the top soccer leagues around the world, particularly, in Europe, such as the English Premiership and the Primera Liga in Spain. FIFA has made rules that these leagues require a minimum threshold of native players on the club teams so it`s less likely that the teams would consist of over 90% black players.
Seriously though I can`t believe the parent post was so blatantly incorrect and modded up like that. Do a little research or at least have SOME knowledge of what you are talking about before you go crazy. Christ, you could watch an hour of ESPN and see that the 90% figure is wrong.