Canada 23 England 3 - World Lacrosse Championship

[talloola]

Here's Hendry scoring a maximum 147 during the 2012 Betfred.com World Snooker Championship at the Crucible in Sheffield. It was the seventh frame of a First Round match against Stuart Bingham, and Hendry went on to win the match 10-4. He would later be defeated 13-2 by Stephen Maguire in the Quarter Finals. Ronnie O'Sullivan won the tournament.

It was Hendry's 11th maximum break, the third in the World Championships and it equalled Ronnie O'Sullivan's 11 maximums. It was the 10th 147 at the Crucible.

Stephen Hendry 147 - World Championship 2012 - YouTube




That's only because it's played on ice. Had curling been a game that was played on grass the Canadians would be useless at it, because you're generally no good at sports not played on ice.

I've said before that if Wimbledon was played on an ice rink, a Canadian would win it every year.





No. I can't say that I have. Like most people in Britain I have never played the sport, never watched it, have no idea how it works and have no interest in it.

The only thing I do know about lacrosse is, that for all its supposed "hardness", lacrosse players would cry like babies on a rugby pitch.



It's not annoying for those millions of people in Britain who like watching darts on telly.

We love watching darts on telly so much that, between 1981 and 1995, we used to have a darts gameshow called Bullseye:

Bullseye, full show 2 - YouTube




Pool is for those who aren't skilfull enough to play snooker, and for those who struggle to add up points.

your comments about lacrosse proves that you really know nothing about it, lots of rugby here, people
play what they are interested in, rugby is just another physical sport, anyone who has sports ability,
and some strength can play it, nothing too deep in the rules, and just a bunch of men grunting and
groaning, pushing shoving, running falling, scoring, not scoring, and getting real dirty, pretty
normal for such games.

when one has a stick and a ball, puck, baseball, lacrosse, hockey, of course the game is different
than rugby, australian football is interesting too, another very physical game.

quirky little sarcastic comments, oh well, guess you have to say something.

my dad and my husband played both pool and billiards, each just as well, both games are interesting
and skillful.

north american football is also a very rough skillful game, i like it too.

my dad was an irish immigrant, played semi pro football (soccer) on the west coast in the u.s. for
a few years, very good player, as i was told, i was not yet born in those days.
he was recruited from new westminster down to the longview area, oregon.

i understand and know many sports, including rugby. sports is a wonderful part of life, whatever
sport one chooses to play, or watch, doesn't matter.

but darts? really? just glad i have a remote i can quickly use when that channel comes round.

 

[Blackleaf]

I'm saying 5 guys who weigh 350+lbs each lined up to hit rugby guys would bury the rugby guys before they got to a hospital. Your scrum would be demolished in a flash.

What part of the sentence It (rugby league) is frequently cited as the toughest, most physically demanding of team sports do you not understand?

Rugby league (especially) and rugby union players would have American footballers (who mainly do nothing except stand around the whole match in their p*ssy body armour) for breakfast.

Rugby league is the toughest team sport on the planet, and is said to be ranked second only to boxing for its sheer brutality. I'd love to see American footballers - who are used to doing a lot of standing around (something like three quarters of an American football match is standing around doing nothing)- almost continuously running around the pitch and making tackles and being tackled almost continuously for a whole 80 minutes like rugby players do (rugby league has more continuous gameplay than even "soccer"). They just wouldn't be able to cope with it. it'd be too physically demanding for an American footballer.

In American football, as soon as a player gets tackled the game then stops for the next ten minutes whilst the players stand around to recover, get their breath back and have a drinks break.

In rugby, when a player gets tackled play continues, and tackles fly in all over the place without a break in the proceedings. A player could receive a brutal tackle which knocks him into kingdom come but play still continues regardless. Rugby players make, and receive, much more tackles in a game than American footballers do.

American footballers would NEVER hack it on a rugby pitch. Much too brutal for them.

It's just a short little video, but it shows what happens when an American football lineman plays rugby.

Hint: the guys getting knocked on their a$$es are rugby players, and the guy doing the knocking is the football player.

American football vs Rugby - YouTube

 

[Tecumsehsbones]

American footballers would NEVER hack it on a rugby pitch. Much too brutal for them.

Despite the video evidence I posted of an NFL lineman (Haloti Ngata of the Baltimore Ravens) not only hacking it, but dominating rugby players on a rugby pitch.

 

[captain morgan]

What part of the sentence It (rugby league) is frequently cited as the toughest, most physically demanding of team sports do you not understand?

It's not an issue of understanding the sentence... It's just such an unbelievable statement

 

[Blackleaf]

Despite the video evidence I posted of an NFL lineman (Haloti Ngata of the Baltimore Ravens) not only hacking it, but dominating rugby players on a rugby pitch.

I'll say again:

American footballers would never hack in on a rugby pitch.

Three quarters of an American football match is, literally, standing around doing nothing. When play does get under way again, as soon as a tackle is made play then stops for the next ten minutes as the players have a nice natter and a drinks break and to let the poor dears recover. Goodness knows why.

In rugby, play is continous. Tackles fly in from all over the place and play does not stop. You could see ten brutal tackles in the space of three minutes, with no stoppages afterwards. The amount of tackles that a rugby player receives, and makes, during a match is far higher than an American football player receives and makes during a match. With only about ten minutes of actual gameplay in an American football match, this is obvious.

An American footballer could never hack it on a rugby pitch. It's much too physically demanding and brutal than what he's used to. An American footballer would not be able to cope with having to be tackled and to make tackles for a whole 80 minutes.

 

[Tecumsehsbones]

I'll say again:

American footballers would never hack in on a rugby pitch.

Haloti Ngata would, and did. Say it again and again and again. Won't change the fact that Ngata was a star rugby player.

 

[Blackleaf]

Haloti Ngata would, and did. Say it again and again and again. Won't change the fact that Ngata was a star rugby player.

There you go. This Ngata fella was a RUGBY player. He played the game at school before deciding to go for the soft option and play American football, with its ten minutes of actual gameplay but ten tons of kevlar body armour.

Therefore he was able to cope with the physical demands of rugby, yet the vast majority of American footballers wouldn't.

Most American footballers would never hack it on a rugby pitch. As soon as a tackle comes in they'd be expecting a ten minute break, and would be shocked to see the game going on as they lie prostrate on the turf.

 

[Tecumsehsbones]

There you go. This Ngata fella was a RUGBY player. He played the game at school before deciding to go for the soft option and play American football, with its ten minutes of actual gameplay but ten tons of kevlar body armour.

He played both, and he chose the NFL because it pays better. In his case, much, much, MUCH better.

Most American footballers would never hack it on a rugby pitch.

Ah, modifying our statement, I see. Well, nice that a little ray of reality shone through for a moment.

Why do you bang on about how tough boxers are? They get a nice little rest-and-water break every three minutes.

 

[Blackleaf]

He played both, and he chose the NFL because it pays better. In his case, much, much, MUCH better.

Still doesn't take away the fact that most American footballers, who only actually play the game for a period of ten minutes or so each match with the rest of the time spent standing around doing nothing, could never hack it on a rugby pitch. All that running around continuously for 80 minutes and having to put in all those tackles and being tackled for 80 minutes, continuously, with hardly a break. The poor little dears - who only make a fraction of the tackles that a rugby player makes during a match and receives a fraction of the tackles that a rugby player receives during a match - would never cope.

Why do you bang on about how tough boxers are? They get a nice little rest-and-water break every three minutes.

Boxers and rugby players often end matches with black eyes, split lips, broken noses and covered in blood with all the brutal hits they've had to sustain, often many hits in a short period of time. Both usually end up with cauliflower ears - or with an ear bitten off - by the time their careers are over. Mollycoddled American footballers, who spend three quarters of the match drinking high energy sports drinks and very little of it making and receiving tackles, don't.

 

[Tecumsehsbones]

Still doesn't take away the fact that most American footballers, who only actually play the game for a period of ten minutes or so each match with the rest of the time spent standing around doing nothing, could never hack it on a rugby pitch. All that running around continuously for 80 minutes and having to put in all those tackles and being tackled for 80 minutes, continuously, with hardly a break. The poor little dears - who only make a fraction of the tackles that a rugby player makes during a match and receives a fraction of the tackles that a rugby player receives during a match - would never cope.





Boxers and rugby players often end matches with black eyes, split lips, broken noses and covered in blood with all the brutal hits they've had to sustain, often many hits in a short period of time. Both usually end up with cauliflower ears - or with an ear bitten off - by the time their careers are over. Mollycoddled American footballers, who spend three quarters of the match drinking high energy sports drinks and very little of it making and receiving tackles, don't.

I'd suggest you look up the rates of death and disabling injury in the respective sports, by why bother. You have The Truth, and mere facts won't change that.

 

[IdRatherBeSkiing]

Haloti Ngata would, and did. Say it again and again and again. Won't change the fact that Ngata was a star rugby player.

If Blackie says it, then it must be true regardless of any video or other evidence presented. But as you know the toughest competitors are the dart throwers. Watch out for them.

 

[Tecumsehsbones]

If Blackie says it, then it must be true regardless of any video or other evidence presented. But as you know the toughest competitors are the dart throwers. Watch out for them.

You should be interested in the latest Briddish "sport," just invented by yours truly. . . snookerdarts!

 

[Kreskin]

I'll say again:

American footballers would never hack in on a rugby pitch.

Three quarters of an American football match is, literally, standing around doing nothing. When play does get under way again, as soon as a tackle is made play then stops for the next ten minutes as the players have a nice natter and a drinks break and to let the poor dears recover. Goodness knows why.

In rugby, play is continous. Tackles fly in from all over the place and play does not stop. You could see ten brutal tackles in the space of three minutes, with no stoppages afterwards. The amount of tackles that a rugby player receives, and makes, during a match is far higher than an American football player receives and makes during a match. With only about ten minutes of actual gameplay in an American football match, this is obvious.

An American footballer could never hack it on a rugby pitch. It's much too physically demanding and brutal than what he's used to. An American footballer would not be able to cope with having to be tackled and to make tackles for a whole 80 minutes.

Hogwash. Rugby is not continuous. There is a lot of standing around. Some guys on one side of the field won't see the ball for lengthy periods. Play is isolated to where the ball is. When an NFL ball is in play everyone is going at 100%. It can't work otherwise. Your bias is deceiving you.

Of course no sport is going to crossover and be better than the other. However if a Rugby squad and a NFL squad were to meet for a bar room brawl your guys wouldn't have a snowballs chance in hell.

 

[IdRatherBeSkiing]

You should be interested in the latest Briddish "sport," just invented by yours truly. . . snookerdarts!

You will no doubt have the island captivated. And insomniacs here at 4am on TSN.

 

[Tecumsehsbones]

You will no doubt have the island captivated. And insomniacs here at 4am on TSN.

Yep. Thrill to the daring precision shots of the offense, while the defense attempts to stop the balls from dropping with well-placed darts!

By the way. . . throwing the darts at the opponent is STRICTLY FORBIDDEN! And only happens three or four hundred times per match.

 

[Kreskin]

This just in: World Lacrosse Final - Canada 8 - US 5

Canada vs United States (Jul 19, 2014) - 2014 World Lacrosse Championship

New Westminster's Kevin Crowley had 5 goals.

 

[talloola]

This just in: World Lacrosse Final - Canada 8 - US 5

Canada vs United States (Jul 19, 2014) - 2014 World Lacrosse Championship

New Westminster's Kevin Crowley had 5 goals.

congratulations to canada, glad to see them come thru. a great game played by a great team.

we followed lacrosse for many years,the guys all played, then all of a sudden, someone decided to try forming a 'girls' league.
nothing wrong with that, BUT, girls must slowly work their way into a game like that, because as babies
and children growing up, little girls do not do physical rough play with each other, for enjoyment, like boys,
wrestling and rolling around, and even fighting at times,
but then to shove a locrosse stick in their hand at the age of 14 and
teach them the rules is one thing, but as soon as they begin to shove each other around and hit
each other with the stick, they just couldn't handle it, 'no wonder', they had never done anything like
that before. it was awful to start, became very violent. not sure how far they got with girls playing
lacrosse, as we moved to the island, lost touch with any of it, and don't know what happened after that.

we formed girls ice hockey, (in newton),and it became very successful indeed, BUT 'no body checking' so that took
care of that, and it grew into A very successful sport for females, and many girls became talented, fast
skating hockey players, and loved the game.

 

[gerryh]

but then to shove a locrosse stick in their hand at the age of 14 and
teach them the rules is one thing, but as soon as they begin to shove each other around and hit
each other with the stick, they just couldn't handle it, 'no wonder', they had never done anything like
that before.

you've got to be kidding. When I was in Sea Cadets (1970's), they started to introduce girls in. One summer, we had a game of floor Hockey (used straight sticks and a ring(ringette?)), boys against girls, was the most horrific afternoon of our lives. Numerous guys on my team had bruised ankles and sore testicles as the girls would wack the ankles with their sticks and then slide the stick up the guys legs. One of my guys ended up with a compound fracture of one of his arms. It was the last time we played against the girls. They were mean (*&%&^(&(*(.

 

[talloola]

you've got to be kidding. When I was in Sea Cadets (1970's), they started to introduce girls in. One summer, we had a game of floor Hockey (used straight sticks and a ring(ringette?)), boys against girls, was the most horrific afternoon of our lives. Numerous guys on my team had bruised ankles and sore testicles as the girls would wack the ankles with their sticks and then slide the stick up the guys legs. One of my guys ended up with a compound fracture of one of his arms. It was the last time we played against the girls. They were mean (*&%&^(&(*(.

we are agreeing with each other, when those girls got hold of those sticks, anything went, and they
were hacking and wacking each other, in anger, as they could not play the game physically without
losing it, that was my point, so what you are describing fits right in.

 

[Kreskin]

CROWLEY LEADS CANADA OVER USA FOR WORLD FIELD LACROSSE TITLE

COMMERCE CITY, Colo. -- Kevin Crowley scored five times as Canada fended off a late rally by the United States for an 8-5 victory on Saturday to win the world field lacrosse championships.

Cameron Holding, Mark Matthews and Curtis ****son also scored for the Canadians, who built a 7-2 lead after three quarters before the Americans scored three times in the fourth.

Kevin Leveille led the United States with a hat trick, while Rob Pannell and Jesse Bernhardt also scored.

It's only the third time Canada has won the field lacrosse world championship with the Americans winning nine since the tournaments inception in 1967.

The United States went undefeated through round-robin play -- including a 10-7 win over Canada in the tournament's opening game -- to enter the playoffs as the top seed.

Earlier Saturday, Miles Thompson and Randy Staats had three goals each as the Iroquois Nationals downed Australia 16-5 in the bronze-medal game.

Lyle Thompson, Zach Miller and Mike Lazore had two goals apiece for the Iroquois, who were playing in the world field lacrosse championships for the first time in eight years. The Iroquois were unable to participate in the 2010 tournament In Manchester, England, after the British government refused to recognize their travel documentation.

Jerome Thompson, Vaughn Harris, Cody Jamieson and Roger Vyse also scored for the Iroquois, a team of First Nations players from the United States and Canada.

Anson Carter had four goals for Australia, while Nigel Morton also found the back of the net.

Crowley leads Canada over USA for world field lacrosse title