CYBERSPORTS ANYTHING TO SPARK A CONVERSATION.Byline: - Tom Hoffarth A recent survey among members of SportsDating.com, a Web site that tries to match boy with girl based on their interests in athletic endeavors, tried to determine what sporting event women preferred to go to on a first date. Think about this before you answer. About 500 men were asked what game or event they believed their female dates would most like to attend. Obviously trying to meet their date's desires, they figured that women's figure skating figure skating Sport in which ice skaters, singly or in pairs, perform various jumps, spins, and footwork. The figure skate blade has a special serrated toe pick, or toe rake, at the front. (32 percent), women's tennis (22 percent), a WNBA WNBA Women's National Basketball Association WNBA World Ninepin Bowling Association WNBA Wannabe Nasty Boys Association WNBA Women's National Book Association, Inc. WNBA Warszawski Nurt Basketu Amatorskiego game (12 percent) or women's soccer (9 percent) would do it. Think again. About 500 women polled voted 41 percent for a baseball game Noun 1. baseball game - a ball game played with a bat and ball between two teams of nine players; teams take turns at bat trying to score runs; "he played baseball in high school"; "there was a baseball game on every empty lot"; "there was a desire for National League and 32 percent for a football game. Is the answer clear enough yet? ``Many of the females responding to the survey stated that they preferred a spot where they could converse (logic) converse - The truth of a proposition of the form A => B and its converse B => A are shown in the following truth table: A B | A => B B => A ------+---------------- f f | t t f t | t f t f | f t t t | t t with their date and still follow the action,'' said Joel Benson, one of the founders of the site. ``Baseball and football are two spectator sports where there are enough breaks in the action to permit that.'' Talk among yourselves. --With L.A.'s official entry into the XFL XFL Shawinigan, Quebec, Canada - Shawinigan / via Rail Service (Airport Code) XFL X-Treme Football League XFL Exit Flight Level XFL X Football League , might as well reveal that the best way to inquire about actually playing for this Vince McMahon-created league is by filling out a questionnaire on the official Web site (www.xfl.com or go straight to www.xfl.teamworkonline.com/playerform/). Be prepared to divulge such information as your nickname, Social Security number, date of birth, high school and college experience, medical problems, preference on special teams and the real toughie: ``Rate your true speed: Great, Good, Average, Slow.'' That's your speed, not IQ. --The International Olympic Committee “IOC” redirects here. For other uses, see IOC (disambiguation). The International Olympic Committee (French: Comité International Olympique) is an organization based in Lausanne, Switzerland, created by Pierre de Coubertin and Demetrios Vikelas on June 23 , U.S. Olympic Committee and Salt Lake Olympic Committee have targeted more than 1,800 registered Internet domain names An organization's unique name on the Internet. The chosen name combined with a top level domain (TLD), such as .com or .org, also called a "domain extension," makes up the Internet domain name. For example, computerlanguage.com is the domain name for the publisher of this Encyclopedia. that illegally use the phrase ``Olympic'' or ``Olympiad'' or claim to represent associations with those organizations. Even those who have misspelled the URLs on purpose - like www.2004Olimpics.com - are being asked nicely (for now) to cease operation. |
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