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I would like to hear, if there are any sport interested piano music lovers here? I myself love football(or soccer as they say in America), and in Europe, football is by far the biggest sport of all, and probably the greatest entertainment business, all categories. So, are there any sport lovers here? If there are, please share me your interest and tell me about your relation to the sport!

I live and breathe sports, especially baseball. But every time I talk about it on here, people tell me to shut up.

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University of Kentucky Wildcats basketball all the way!! (College basketball > NBA)

Shut up!

When I was in high school, I was a pretty good soccer goalkeeper. That pursuit, sadly, was incompatible with my continuing musical studies, so I gave it up. Goalkeepers hands get beaten up pretty badly.

I'm a big fan of the American goalkeepers in the EPL: Tim Howard, Brad Friedel and Brad Guzan. My professional sports career lives on vicariously.

Do you prefer music over soccer?

That's because soccer is the greatest sport, not baseball

I was a fan of boxing when Ali was champ.
I was a fan of tennis when Mcenroe was champ.
And a fan of football until Kurt Warner left town.

Nowadays sports has a decided lack of charisma. Boring, like soccer has always been.

I taught tennis professionally during the summer for about 15 years. As a high school math teacher I taught John McEnroe pre-calculus mathematics and also coached the high school tennis team he played on. (Notice I was careful not to say I coached him because even as a freshmen he knew far, far more about tennis than I ever did.)

Good job using the singular verb form.

Most pedants would probably disagree. I agree.

BTW, I think we just found out where Plover taught!
(Don't worry, we won't show up there!)

Great place, I understand.

Is ballet a sport?

After today's class, I'm far more sore than I've been after any training run or bike ride.

And I got to listen to some lovely piano music while doing it. The original Sweatin' to the Oldies, the REALLY old oldies.

My son loves soccer, but here in Spain, he has no hope against the other little Spanish boys. The last time he tried to play a pickup game of soccer in the plaza with a gaggle of boys, he ended up with a bloody nose within 5 minutes. And I don't think anybody actually did anything to him malicious. I think he just basically tripped himself simply trying to keep up with whatever it is that they seem to be able to do immediately upon emergence from the womb.

Here is a sportsman famous for his elegance, and who I think is the perfect sportsman to love if you are into classical music. He is famous for his virtousity and elegance, as well as his artistic touch, which makes him almost as much of a cultural personality as he is a football/soccer player. His name is Zinedine Zidane:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3wjU1n_MDTI

I used to play all the sports (soccer, softball, basketball) when I was in elementary/middle school. After that I realized I was awful at them all, so I switched to ballet . I still play soccer once in a while for fun. However, I never enjoyed watching sports of any kind. My entire family is obsessed with soccer, though, so I hear about it all the time.

Isn't he the guy who slammed someone extremely inelegantly a few years ago?
(Or maybe was he the slammee?)

Hockey, baseball, and football. I watch the Tigers most every night, the Wings when they're on and on Sunday I'm basically glued to the TV for most of the day when I'm not at the piano.

As I was (and always had been, since I was a fetus in my mom's womb) hopeless at any sort of organized sports, be it soccer, cricket (for Americans, this isn't an insect ), badminton, tennis, table tennis, etc, etc - yep, I've tried all of them at one time or another - I eventually started hiking (=hillwalking, =tramping/bushwalking depending on which country you're in), then rock-climbing, then high-altitude mountaineering......and then found that the best way to keep fit for the mountains was by running, preferably on mountainous terrain. Which was how I ended up climbing Everest as well as running the Everest Marathon (as well as several London and other big city marathons).

I lost the tip of my little finger to frostbite, but otherwise, escaped unscathed from my escapades up all those little icy hills over the past two decades. Not that I'm using that as an excuse for why my octave technique is still not as good as I'd like it to be .

So, apart from swimming (preferably in open water) - again, not an organized sport - and adventure racing, and kayaking, that's about the only sport I do - or can do.

Franz Beebert, I have read your post, here:

I would like to hear, if there are any sport interested piano music lovers here? I myself love football(or soccer as they say in America), and in Europe, football is by far the biggest sport of all, and probably the greatest entertainment business, all categories. So, are there any sport lovers here? If there are, please share me your interest and tell me about your relation to the sport! smile

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I love basketball and played it 4 times a weeks. To me, basketball is so awesome because you can play it outside, inside, co-ed, half court, full court, with or without t-shirts anytime of the year weather permitting. I had/have health issues so I switch to playing the piano because I couldn't play basketball. All you need is a hoop and a ball, so almost as cheap and owning a cheap secondhand digital piano - oh, and like basketball and piano, you can play them 24 hours a day / or night - neighbours permitting..

Additionally, in basketball and piano you have to practice running up and down the court or running up and down the scales in piano. And you have to do leaps, jumps, and scores are always an issue whether you are playing the piano or playing basketball.

Yes, and on his final professional game too.

You cannot be serious !!!!!

(Actually - that's really neat !!)