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60 things I hate about sports

1. Athletes. 2. Sportswriters. 3. "We've really just got to out there and play our game, you know? They've got a great team, but if we can focus on our game plan and execute, I think we can come out on top." 4. Executing. 5. George W. Bush was a professional sports owner in Texas before he became president. Mark Cuban owns the Dallas Mavericks. God help us. 6. The Minnesota Wild. 7. XFL color analyst Jesse "The Governor" Ventura. 8. They're making them cheer. 9. The sanctity of the Super Bowl will be ruined by an embarrassing performance by 'N Sync. 10. More people will tune in for 'N Sync than for the Super Bowl.

11. Bobby Bowden's glasses. 12. Average American: "PGA? Never heard of it. But I love that handsome boy who bounces the golf ball in the Cadillac commercial." 13. Commercials starring overpaid athletes living off a fluke MVP season two years ago. 14. Commercials starring athletes. 15. Boing. 16. Tiger's so good he's made golf awfully boring. 17. Golf was awfully boring already. 18. Baseball is worse. 19. Dick Vermeil, Marty Schottenheimer and Bill Parcells received NFL head coaching offers, and Marvin Lewis, Art Shell and Terry Robiskie didn't. 20. Chucky.

21. "Offense puts people in the seats, but defense still wins championships." 22. Defense is boring. We want XFL cheerleaders. 23. Most disappointing NFL rookie: Arizona Cardinals backup tailback Thomas Jones. 24. When they're off the field, most college and pro athletes are playing the field. 25. Especially Rae Carruth. 26. It's not nice to make fun of a man who is going to live his life in prison for having his pregnant ex-girlfriend murdered. 27. Illegal defense. 28. Inane year-end sports lists that nobody reads because they ramble on about things nobody cares about or understands, and they can't make a point without losing themselves on a completely unrelated tangent. 29. And then they are printed four weeks after the end of the year, making them completely irrelevant 30. The NHL regular season.

 
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