Strangest "Sport" you've seen on ESPN?

[yourbeliefs]

Ok.. on ESPN2 right now, they have on the National Scrabble Association's 2008 National School Scrabble Championship. Now... I understand that ESPN, especially ESPN2 has a lot of time to fill and needs programming, but does SCRABBLE really count as a sport? Maybe as a competition, but aside from that, what are the strangest things you've seen covered like a "sport" or "competition" on ESPN or even any sports network? I thought the spelling bee was the top, but now we have a new winner.

 

[stone phillips420]

dont forget about cup stacking lol

 

[bhelms]

I you are considering what others actually call a "sport", then I think curling is right up there...!

 

[stone phillips420]

I you are considering what others actually call a "sport", then I think curling is right up there...!

ive never seen curling on espn, seen it a bunch on tsn and olympics

 

[mdonnelly]

Back in the day, Australian rules football was a staple on ESPN.

 

[cosmo_kramer]

Don't forget about the Scripps National Spelling Bee...

 

[stone phillips420]

the show cheap seats would feature most of the off the wall stuff abc/espn have shown

 

[Hart5150]

Ice Hockey.

 

[Greg Bimson]

Poker.

 

[stone phillips420]

Ice Hockey.

thats low, figures from a beantownian!
id say the rollerblade hockey league they used to show from dinsey world/land cant remember
if you feel hockey isnt mainstream enough maybe you should move south of miami lol

 

[Greg Bimson]

Don't blame him. I believe it is illegal for a single sentence to contain "ice hockey" and "Boston Bruins".

 

[stone phillips420]

Don't blame him. I believe it is illegal for a single sentence to contain "ice hockey" and "Boston Bruins".

bergeron savard chara wideman thomas and lets not forget wheeler and kessel would disagree
orignal six and not redwings enough said

 

[SabresRule]

Arena Football

 

[Hart5150]

Don't blame him. I believe it is illegal for a single sentence to contain "ice hockey" and "Boston Bruins".

I was a Whalers fan. I could give a crap about the Bruins.

 

[stone phillips420]

I was a Whalers fan. I could give a crap about the Bruins.

ah, the whalers were sweet, still have my whale tail jersey, although its a little small now

 

[Jimbo]

You poeple all are forgetting what ESPN stands for, sure most think about Sports first, but is is actually E : Entertainment and S : Sports P rogramming N: Network

Spelling Bee and Scrabble would be under the Entertainment side of things, not Sports.

That said, they do a poor job of Entertainment.

Jimbo

 

[hockeynut5150]

Don't blame him. I believe it is illegal for a single sentence to contain "ice hockey" and "Boston Bruins".

 

[Mr Tony]

darts

that eating thing where people try to eat 200 pounds of fish guts or something

 

[charper1]

Midget tossing!

 

[charper1]

Oops; I forgot it had to be on ESPN; even though I think they only ran a story about the midget tossing I guess as far as on TV; the SPELLING BEE! ARGH!