If you could change one thing about sports what would it be?

bsidegrve · April 22, 2009 2:54AM

For me its Basketball

The final minutes of a Basketball game take forever!!
The teams have so many time outs!! imo it takes away from the flow of the game.

I would love to see fewer time outs per team allowed

markj111 · April 22, 2009 3:29AM

1. Get rid of TV timeouts on NFL games. I no longer watch live because of the interminable TOs. I TIVO games.
2. Get rid of Chip Caray.

TheVon · April 22, 2009 8:13AM

<< 1. Get rid of TV timeouts on NFL games. I no longer watch live because of the interminable TOs. I TIVO games. >>

Ditto. Football is a great sport but it's being ruined by commercials. It's even worse during games that would be exciting too like high scoring games. There's a score. Commercial. There's a point after. Commercial. There's a kickoff. Commercial. It sucks.

edmundfitzgerald · April 22, 2009 8:21AM

Gambling should be illegal on all major sporting events.

Pigs · April 22, 2009 1:50PM

Overtime rules in the NFL. College rules with the distance longer, maybe starting at the 45 or 50 yrd line.

joestalin · April 22, 2009 2:05PM

refs should be shot if they F up a call that anyone watching TV could of made.

JS

Jeff85fan · April 22, 2009 2:36PM

All sports gambling should be legalized in all 50 states. Eliminate these shady bookies, and tax and regulate the hell out of it. The same arguments I have for legalizing drug use. People are going to do it whether its legal or not (just like drinking during prohibition), instead of wasting law enforcement dollars, court time, and jail system resources on it, legalize and tax it, then you get twice the benefit. No money for criminals and good people stay out of jail.

Boopotts · April 22, 2009 2:44PM

Super Bowl and BCS title game would no longer be played on neutral fields.

Bosox1976 · April 22, 2009 8:09PM

Need groupies for fans.

K · April 22, 2009 9:01PM

Pete Rose should be inducted into the Hall of Fame.

bman90278 · April 22, 2009 10:06PM

<< Pete Rose should be inducted into the Hall of Fame. >>

I agree....MLB wants it both ways...They have lots of Pete Rose's game items in the hall but not him.

brian

cardbender · April 22, 2009 11:20PM

All salaries and ticket prices rolled back to 1980 levels.
It costs too much to attend games and the players are way overpaid for what they contribute to society.

Players shouldn't be paid more than their managers/coaches.
That's why the people in charge have no control over these
pamped, spoiled athletes.

Okay, so that's two things.

Michigan · April 23, 2009 12:01AM

MLB season shortened by at least 2 weeks so that playoffs do not drag into late October when the nighttime weather is often more cold
and unpleasant.

larryallen73 · April 23, 2009 12:19AM

Salary cap for NFL rookies. It's a disadvantage to get a high draft pick as you cripple your franchise for years unless you get a GEM MINT 10 pick!

Davemri · April 23, 2009 12:46AM

How about ESPN without hockey highlights......

interchanges · April 23, 2009 12:53AM

Eliminate warm-up pitches when there's a pitching change.
Baseball is slow enough.

From the time the manager moseys on out there........the pitcher slowly walks to the dugout........out comes the next one.........he prances around the mound like a cat in a litter box.........gets 10 warmup pitches..............out comes the batter.....

Then if that pitcher gives up some walks or whatever and it happens again.......ugh! Puts you to sleep!

CrimsonTider · April 23, 2009 3:36AM

College football = Playoffs

Hockey = More fights

Boxing = Bring back Tyson

Golf = 9000 yard courses, make par a winning score

NFL = no preseason longer season

NBA = No suggestion, just don't like it

MLB = More donnybrooks, fewer suspensions

Nascar = 65 car fields at Daytona and Dega, plus restictor plates everywhere!

MLS = move to Europe

WNBA = move to Europe

nightcrawler · April 23, 2009 4:23AM

Judges be excluded from all championship boxing matches.

Championship Boxing matches should be to the finish.

intence · April 23, 2009 6:12AM

superbowl better commercials

MantleMarisFordBerra · April 23, 2009 6:27AM

True playoffs for college football

Brian48 · April 23, 2009 11:05AM

ALCS/NLCS and World Series games are played too damn late in the evening.

Same for Basketball

Beach Volleyball should do away with the bikinis (too constricting).

Womens tennis should be nekid too.

bsidegrve · April 23, 2009 11:12AM

<< True playoffs for college football >>

Michigan · April 23, 2009 11:21AM

"ALCS/NLCS and World Series games are played too damn late in the evening."

By the time all the pre game hoopla is over and the game actually starts it is usually around 8:30 PM meaning the game
is probably going to go past midnight.

It would be better if the first pitch happened around 7:00 PM but I doubt that will happen.

baseballjeff · April 23, 2009 11:45AM

Manditory drug test everyone, and have STRICT rules that are enforced.

Hoopster · April 23, 2009 12:31PM

I agree that the LCS and WS are played way too late at night. It gives kids basically no shot to watch anything past the third inning...heck, once I hit the couch after 8PM it is only a matter of time before the eyes start to get heavy, so I don't make it a lot either.

I also hated that I had to listen to Jack Buck instead of Vin Scully for the post season. Scully should have been a staple forever! I guess some people liked Buck, but everytime they show Gibson's HR and they have the Buck audio associated with it, it lessens the impact. When I hear Vince's, I still get the chills.

RonBurgundy · April 24, 2009 8:25AM

# 1 College Football Playoff

# 1A Day games for the World Series

benderbroeth · April 24, 2009 4:25PM

<< All salaries and ticket prices rolled back to 1980 levels.
It costs too much to attend games and the players are way overpaid for what they contribute to society.

Players shouldn't be paid more than their managers/coaches.
That's why the people in charge have no control over these
pamped, spoiled athletes.

Okay, so that's two things. >>

i second that..i would go to tons more games.

PoppaJ · April 25, 2009 3:38AM

I never could understand why spectators have to be silent while pro golfers perform, yet thousands of fans scream and yell when a mlb player is trying to hit a ball coming at him @ 95 mph from 60 feet/6 inches away, while the ball is spinning, curving, sinking and rising all pretty much at the same time! Not to mention while using a long, round narrow piece of wood with which to hit it!

All a golfer has to do is hit a small, round ball that is not moving. Yet we have to be quiet for the golfer, but not for the baseball player.

See, I don’t think that’s fair. But I don’t really want baseball fans to be forced to be quiet while a batter is trying to hit. What I want is for golf fans to be allowed to make all the noise they want whenever someone is trying to hit a stationary golf ball. They should allow for “golf chatter.”

PoppaJ

smet · April 25, 2009 4:19AM

<< I never could understand why spectators have to be silent while pro golfers perform, yet thousands of fans scream and yell when a mlb player is trying to hit a ball coming at him @ 95 mph from 60 feet/6 inches away, while the ball is spinning, curving, sinking and rising all pretty much at the same time! Not to mention while using a long, round narrow piece of wood with which to hit it!

All a golfer has to do is hit a small, round ball that is not moving. Yet we have to be quiet for the golfer, but not for the baseball player.

See, I don’t think that’s fair. But I don’t really want baseball fans to be forced to be quiet while a batter is trying to hit. What I want is for golf fans to be allowed to make all the noise they want whenever someone is trying to hit a stationary golf ball. They should allow for “golf chatter.”

PoppaJ >>

Thats just not true. Have you ever seen Happy Gilmore?

If you could change one thing about sports what would it be?

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