What are your favorite sports leagues and teams?

Sports fans! I'd love to know what sports you love to watch -- or, more specifically, which sports leagues you enjoy the most, and which specific team(s) (if any) in those leagues that are your favorites. Say which country you're from too!

Since I asked, here are mine.:

I live in the U.S. (Texas)!

I love American Football, specifically the NFL (Carolina Panthers & Jacksonville Jaguars) and college football (Texas Longhorns).

I like Basketball, specifically the NBA (Dallas Mavericks).

I like Baseball, specifically Major League Baseball (Houston Astros) and Minor League Baseball (Round Rock Express of Round Rock, TX).

Finally, I like Ice Hockey, specifically the NHL (Colorado Avalanche & San Jose Sharks).

How about you?

[Edited on 7/15/2004 by ThunderCloud]

The Arena Football League (AFL)- Arena Football is like regular American football, except better.

The National Football League (NFL)- New Orleans Saints are Pittsburgh Steelers have my vote for two best teams.

The National Hockey League (NHL)- Columbus Blue Jackets, Buffalo Sabres and any Canadian team rock. Unfortunately, there may not be any hockey this year because of Union disputes.

The American Hockey League (AHL)- Like the NHL, but one step below. It seems like the guys playing try a lot harder then the pros, making every game feel and look like the Playoffs.

Major League Soccer (MLS)- Freddie Adu, the LeBron James of soccer. He makes DC United rock, even though he didn't start for his first 5 or 6 games.

I live in the U.S. , by the way (Western NY)


[Edited on 15-7-2004 by BangorangRufio]

NHL: Detroit (still cant get over they let federov go)

MLB: Atlanta

NBA: hate the NBA

NFL: Denver

NCAA Footballl: Nebraska GO BIG RED

NCAA Baseball: Noter Dame or Nebraska or Chrighton(sp) (whoever gets to the CWS here in omaha)

Wolrd Cup Football(im talking about soccer now mind you): Germany

Olympic Hockey Team: Germany, Russia, and Canada

Olympic Scoccer: Gremany

NHL All Star Team: Europe

MLB All Star Team: NL

Originally posted by KrazyIvan
Wolrd Cup Football(im talking about soccer now mind you)

LOL, that's why I went back and edited my post to change football to American football -- I realized that there are people on this Message Board from all over the world, and that to the rest of the world 'soccer' is 'football' and what Americans know as 'football' is called 'American football'. And then there's Australian football, which the rest of the world knows as 'rugby'... This can get confusing!

What are you guys talking about? You mean there are other notable teams in the NFL other than the 49ers?

Baseball - American League - Yankees
National League - Marlins

Basketball - NY Knicks
and since the arrival of Shaq, I might consider the Heat once again

Football -NFL NY Jets

don't follow any other sports seriously, but in Cricket i would go for West Indies.

haha..OK, for some non American stuff

I love Rugby League and Union ( Aussies will know this), so

NRL (Rugby League)- St. George Illwarra Dragons
Super 12 (Union)- ACT Brumbies

Soccer
English Premier League- Liverpool
Italian Serie A- Juventus (used to be Fiorentina but they had financial problems and are in Serie C)
Spanish League- Deportivo La Carouna

I love ice hockey but they never show it here and I don't really know many of the teams. All the big ones I know, (Dallas, Colorado, Anaheim) but I don't know any of the players.

NHL Pittsburgh Penguines
AHL Cleveland Barrons

MBL Cleveland Indians
AA Akron Arrows

NFL Cleveland Browns and Oakland Raiders

NBA Cleveland Cavs Hometownboy LeBron James is incredible

Would love to find Rugby on 1 of the cband stations, i dont get espn.

Also saw camel wrestling a few years back 1 night, so wild,wild stuff,would love to see that on a regular basis.

D, how can you not like Real Madrid? They have David Beckham and Ronaldo!

Originally posted by BangorangRufio
D, how can you not like Real Madrid? They have David Beckham and Ronaldo!

Nah, never liked the really big teams. Get's boring supporting them. Don't really like Beckham. He's a good player and all, but he's a bit feminine, wouldn't call him the best role model for soccer players. I like Roberto Carlos though, he's a legend. Always trying bicycle kicks and completely missing.

Good to see someone from the US who's interested in soccer. Don't find many of the around.

[Edited on 7/8/04 by D]

Originally posted by ThunderCloud

Originally posted by KrazyIvan
Wolrd Cup Football(im talking about soccer now mind you)

LOL, that's why I went back and edited my post to change football to American football -- I realized that there are people on this Message Board from all over the world, and that to the rest of the world 'soccer' is 'football' and what Americans know as 'football' is called 'American football'.

And then there's Australian football, which the rest of the world knows as 'rugby'... This can get confusing!

Actually, it's Australian Football is called AFL and it's not rugby. There's some similarities but it is very different from rugby legaue and union.

For my views see


SPORTZTAWK


www.sportztawk.com

Yeah Websurfer it's funny how sports threads keep cropping up when we have Sportztawk to post stuff like this...

What about most hated teams... www.sportztawk.com...

I forgot about Sportz Ttawk, I registerd but never posted, too much ATS.

I just watch the NFL and MLB.

NFL- Washigton Redskins
MLB- NY Mets.

MLB: NL: Giants/Braves
AL: No favorite

NBA: East: Pistons
West: Kings

NFL: NFC: Packers
AFC: No favorite

Hockey: No favorite

College (Any Sport) : UNC (I'm a NC native and has to go with MJ's college)
Hopefully McCants can bring them another NCAA championship.

Originally posted by JediMaster
I forgot about Sportz Ttawk, I registerd but never posted, too much ATS.

I just watch the NFL and MLB.

NFL- Washigton Redskins
MLB- NY Mets.

So it's you and Gibb's against the world. I'll remember that as you two are laughing down on me and my poor Niners this year.

Football, Arsenal United!

AFL (Australian Football League)- West Coast Eagles

NFL- Seattle Seahawks and Jacksonville Jaguars

English Premier League- Newcastle United

Spanish La Liga- Deportivo La Coruna

German Bundesliga- Schalke 04

And rugby is not Australian Rules Football, they are 2 different sports

See- www.afl.com.au

Barclays Premiere League Football , Newcastle United, go Magpies, I get most games on Satellite radio and some Television

Australian Football League, Adelaide Crows, I dont get them on the television anymore :O(


National Football League (American Football) Kansas City Chiefs , Truth is NFL bores me mostly and I have quit following for the most part

Major League Baseball Atlanta Braves , Disappointing last few seasons but I stick with them , Hometown team went to the first game played in Atlanta as a kid. Chicago Cubs, ya gotta believe

Basketball, dont watch

National Hockey League, The Calgary Flames, from when they were the Atlanta Flames

College Football (American football) Kansas State or Georgia Tech

World Cup Football, the American Team, or the English Team

I like watching rugby from Australia but I dont know enough about the teams yet


Teams I love to hate :O)

Sunderland, Manchester United, Chelsea, Liverpool , Arsenal (Barclays Premiere League Football)

Oakland Raiders, Atlanta Falcons (NFL)

New York Yankees and New York Mets, (Major League Baseball)

Nebraska and Oklahoma (College Football American)

Argentina, Spain, Italy, in World Cup Football