Sporting News List of "Best Sports Cities" - Big 12 Edition
by big12hoops on Oct 8, 2009 11:29 AM CDT
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PrintThe Sporting News recently came out with its annual list of the "Best Sports City" with Pittsburgh claiming the top spot (which makes sense considering they won both the football and hockey championships.)
Rounding out the top 5 are Philly, Boston, Chicago/Evanston and L.A.
In terms of Big 12 cities, 3 made the top 40 and 11 of the 12 cracked the top 100 (sorry Ames).
18. Denver/Boulder
37. Oklahoma City/Norman
38. Austin
56. Columbia
60. Stillwater
61. Lawrence
72. Lincoln
85. Waco
86. College Station
91. Manhattan
114. Ames
What are your thoughts on the Big 12 rankings or the list in general?
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That list is moronic.
LA, Tampa and Nashville ahead of Denver. Nope
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Agreed
If you combine Boulder and Denver, then you have 4 major pro sports teams, a BCS-conference university and one of the top college hockey teams in the country (University of Denver).
If this is based on winning, the Rockies are in the playoffs and the Nuggets were in the Western Conference Finals.
DC is ranked higher and with them you have the worst record in baseball, the second worst record in the NBA, a horribly run NFL franchise, and no major college sports program (Georgetown aside). Ovechkin may be good, but not THAT good.
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No way is Denver ahead of Los Angeles
(agreed on other two though)
Lakers > Nuggets
Angels > Rockies
Dodgers > Rockies
UCLA > CU
USC > CU
Broncos > Nobody
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Avs > Kings
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The Ralphie Report - University of Colorado Athletics
Nuggets > Clippers
Here’s my take on the LA-Denver debate.
LA should be a better sports town. They have 3 or 4 times the number of people than Denver. They have twice the number of baseball and NBA teams. They have nice weather to attract prized recruits to USC and UCLA.
The Lakers are a foundation, and in innings 3-6 Dodger fans good baseball fans.
In the past 15 years though, Denver has blossomed as a sports town with the Avs and Rockies coming to town. In fact over the past 10 years Denver has hosted:
World Series
AFC Championship game
NBA Western Conference finals
Stanley Cup finals
Comparatively, during the same time frame LA has won:
World Series
Several NBA championships
BCS championship
My take is that Denver is a great sports town, but LA should be ranked higher. My original agreement was that Denver is better than Nashville and Tampa.
With thy watchwords, Honor, Duty / Thy high fame shall last.
Meh - hockey
Introducing the new 2008 Big 12 Football Champions: OU, UT*, TT*, and MU*!
Now Introducing the new 2009 Big 12 Baseball Tournament Champions: UT, KSU*, BU*, and MU*!
Yeah this list is a little weird.
-Not sure why they combined Denver and Boulder, while leaving Fort Collins all by itself…
-How do you explain a college town (State College) being ranked ahead of a city with two major professional teams (Kansas City)
-How do you combine cities like Detroit and Ann Arbor (45 miles apart) and not combine cities like Kansas City and Lawrence (40 miles apart)?
-Madison, WI ranked way lower than Stillwater, OK?
-Muncie, IN (Ball State) way ahead of Bloomington, IN (Indiana University)?
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Now Introducing the new 2009 Big 12 Baseball Tournament Champions: UT, KSU*, BU*, and MU*!
High School
Odessa, TX did not even make the list. So much for Friday Night Lights.
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