CYBERSPORTS SURVEY SAYS: WE LIKE TO TAKE THOSE SURVEYS.

Byline: - Tom Hoffarth

Did you know only 55 percent of folks in L.A. or Anaheim drink beer while watching sports - the lowest average of any town in these United States of America?

We're not making it up. We couldn't if we tried.

As part of ESPN.com's new SportsNation link to get more people signed in and communicating in chat rooms, taking polls and entering debates, they conducted two national surveys from a pool of 40,000 site users to see just how diverse and similar we all are.

The power, attraction, relationship and meaning of sports to people of all ages, backgrounds and regions were sliced and diced to measure up in one of the most comprehensive surveys about sports ever conducted.

Among the things this tally revealed:

--L.A. fans spend an average of 12 hours a week watching sports and news information on television. Philadelphia ranked first, with 14 hours. The national average is 5.3 hours.

L.A. also spends 6.9 hours per week following sports on the Internet.

--Forty-three percent of L.A. fans admit to having cheered an opponent's injury (fourth-highest in the nation).

--The NBA fans are the most culturally diverse: 46 percent white, 25 percent African-American, 20 percent Latino, 7 percent Asian. The NHL has the least diverse fans: 85 percent white, 8 percent Latino, 5 percent Asian and less than 1 percent African-American.

--Twenty-one percent of fans between age 21 and 29 participate in fantasy leagues.

The survey also gave everyone a 20-question ``sports IQ'' test, which is up on the SportsNation link (http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/sportsnation/index#). The national average was 13.3 right. We went 17 for 20. See how you measure up.

--One more pop quiz: On NBCSports.com's site, an NFL preseason test asks users to see how many of the 20 questions they can answer. Each correct answer moves them closer to the goal line. Check it out at www.msnbc.com/news/788630.asp?Odm=s12Js.