[manu]

Like sword fighting, archery, or gun duels, sports that have a duel use.

[Mominator]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('MrBill', 'J')avelin catching. Its not the level of skill, but the heart that counts.

[catbox]

I am thinking that Americans will get to know bike racing a bit better. Maybe more criterium racing...or more velodromes popping up? I see a possible problem with long stage racing in the future due to the fuel and energy it takes to get the race from point to point.

Overall If things get real bad, more local racing will be the call and it just might bring in new fans and riders.

catbox

[Byron100]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('catbox', 'I') am thinking that Americans will get to know bike racing a bit better. Maybe more criterium racing...or more velodromes popping up? I see a possible problem with long stage racing in the future due to the fuel and energy it takes to get the race from point to point.

Overall If things get real bad, more local racing will be the call and it just might bring in new fans and riders.

catbox

[cube]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Peleg', '.')..
Wake up in you home under mortgage, with a fridge full of food purchased at the local supermarket. Drive in your car under lease to your job under scrutiny and talk sports all day while dinking around on the Internet. Then go home, take in some sports and go to bed. You are in the Matrix baby!

If the next time you stumble up to the bar in your favorite sports establishment and the bartender puts a red beer and a blue beer in front of you, be sure to take the blue one. You're not ready for freedom yet!

[Alnitaka]

The Major Baseball Leagues will change dramatically. I expect that American League teams in the western US such as the Los Angeles Angels will be moved to the National League, and that National League teams in the eastern US such as Pittsburgh will be moved to the American League. Interleague games will be eliminated. The two leagues will be organized into divisions according to geography, and most games will be intradivision games. This is because MLB will have to conserve on the use of fuel and of entities that use fuel, such as the airlines.

[mos6507]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('cube', 'T')he future of "professional" sports.

Death Race (2008)



Death Race 2000 (1975)

[Ferretlover]

Taking in consideration transportation costs and availability, by both participants and the viewers, I don't see how they will continue. No more plane flights to different cities for games, no more transportation for news agencies to cover said events, food would be unobtainable, no money to maintain those fancy stadiums and racetracks.... IMO, nearly all sports will be local only.

[Alnitaka]

That's going to put the Baltimore Orioles on the same level as the Delmarva Shorebirds and the Detroit Tigers on the same level as the Lansing Lugnuts. All teams will be minor league teams, with occasionally a top-of-the-crop all-star game somewhere, but I don't it would be broadcast - the newspapers may have to tell the story of it.

[Leanan]

From South Korea:

No Night Baseball Games to Save Energy?

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'W')ith oil prices skyrocketing, the government is seeking ways of minimizing energy consumption. Half of the vehicles belonging to government agencies nationwide have stopped operating.

A growing number of private firms are joining in the energy-saving campaign as oil prices are expected to rise for years to come.

But here is a gas-guzzling facility nonchalant to the energy crisis: ``the baseball stadium.''

On Tuesday 6:30 p.m., six lighting towers in Jamsil Stadium in southern Seoul, began shining over the 30,000-seat baseball field.

More than two thirds of the seating was empty yet it was bright enough to play the game without artificial light.

[MrBill]

“We are very, very mindful of what's going on,” Mr. Peddie said in an e-mail yesterday. “Defensively we are really watching costs. Offensively we are upping our marketing and service levels … if the meltdown continues it will affect our future revenue expectations.”
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'T')he spreading financial gloom that envelops Wall Street has hit that most Main Street of American sports: NASCAR.

The popular race circuit has expanded beyond its redneck roots in the Deep South to capture fat profits and a huge TV audience throughout North America. But now it has turned into another high-profile victim of the global financial crisis and a rapidly slowing economy.

Some of the most illustrious names in the sport, including Dale Earnhardt Jr. and Michael Waltrip, have suddenly lost a slew of big-time sponsors as struggling auto makers, flailing financial firms and retrenching oil companies decide they have better things to do with their shrinking capital than spend up to $25-million (U.S.) annually to sponsor a team.

[Blacksmith]

I play sports but I don't watch sports not even on TV. I've seen 3 baseball games, and prehaps 15 hockey games, and 3 football games over forty years. I do however enjoy university level hockey mainly for its speed and the skill of ordinary people.

[mos6507]

Two men enter, one man leaves.

[pedalling_faster]

GOODBYE, NASCAR !

i wish. professional motorsports is an industry, you don't get to be a manager by talking about downsizing. so it will try to keep going, limited by sponsor dollars.

personally i'd like to see nitromethane-powered rollerblades at Sears Point. with spectators using mass transit to get to the party. but that's an alternative universe.

[VMarcHart]

I can predict my spending on professional sports: it's either on already paid for cable, or a gift, or no spending whatsoever. I used to be a 20+ games/year. No more.

[oowolf]

Telegraph.uk is reporting the French Grand Prix is cancelled for '09. Adios, Formula 1.

[VMarcHart]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('oowolf', 'T')elegraph.uk is reporting the French Grand Prix is cancelled for '09. Adios, Formula 1.

[oowolf]

"...anticipated lack of profit..."
"...declining support of automakers..."

[hillsidedigger]

Organized sports or athletics has got to be the largest, most needless waste of fuel in the United States. It's crazy, there are multiple elementary grades basketball teams at the local school (the kids are transported near and far (so far the families must stay in motels, sometimes) for games and then there are the required practice sessions where the parents must drive the kids back to school in the evening and don't forget the cheerleading squads) so that everybody who wants to play gets to play.

The 2008 Olympics caused the spike in oil prices.

[shortonsense]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('PenultimateManStanding', 'M')ajor League Sports are Doomed!
Just read Kunstler's article for today and saw his point about how airline commuting for the atheletes and teams will soon go belly up. So true! Airline travel will probably be one of the first things to go by the wayside after TSHTF for just about everybody.