Tag: european sports
Can Free Throw % Tell Us How Good a Basketball League Is?
Living in Germany, my options for live, high-caliber sports are limited, if I don’t want to sit outside in 35 degree rainy weather and watch soccer. As such, over the past year and a half I’ve tried to “make it work” with hockey and basketball. With hockey, the larger ice helps the game feel more…
European sports culture sucks
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Okay, I admit. I love American sports, and I hate the hipsterspeople who tell me that European sports are soooooo much more passionate than their American counterparts. It’s true. Europeans sing through the entire game, songs that have probably been sung since Charlemagne mandated them during his reign (don’t bother fact checking this sentence). However,…