what is the most popular sport in the world? is there any wriiten record for this?
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Soccer, or football as it`s also known(not to be confused with American football)is the most popular sport in the world.You don`t need a written record to realize this.
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World Cup.\n\nThis is the most watched sporting event in the world and soccer is the greatest sport in the world.  It has been proven to be the most competitive sport.  Please read the article from Boston University entitled "What is less than super about the Super Bowl?"  Which shows American Football to have the least competitive games of all of the major sports!  \n\nBelow is a copy of the article and a link to the page.\n\n\nWhat is less than super about the Super Bowl\nStatistics show that when it comes to competition, football loses\nBy Chris Berdik\n \nGraphic by Kim Han\n \nGot any plans for Sunday, say around 6 p.m.? Chances are pretty good that along with about 90 million Americans, you will be watching Super Bowl XL, between the Seattle Seahawks and the Pittsburgh Steelers. The Super Bowl is perennially one of American television’s biggest draws, this year fetching ABC a record $2.5 million for every 30 seconds of advertising. What explains such massive allure? According to a study by Sidney Redner, a College of Arts and Sciences physics professor, it’s probably not the competition.  \n\nRedner and colleagues Federico Vazquez, a GRS physics grad student, and researcher Eli Ben-Naim of the Los Alamos National Laboratory crunched a century’s worth of numbers, more than 300,000 games from the National Football League, the National Basketball Association, Major League Baseball, the National Hockey League, and the English Premier League (soccer), to determine the relative competitiveness of each sport. The researchers based the notion of competitiveness on the probability of an upset victory by the team with a lesser record of wins and losses. And when it comes to this measure of competitiveness, it turns out, the NFL comes up a loser, with a 36.4 percent chance of an upset in any given game. Soccer was the most competitive sport, with the underdog pulling off a victory 45.2 percent of the time. \n\n\nRedner, a statistical and theoretical physicist, often studies complex systems outside of mainstream physics. In this case, he and his colleagues were using sports statistics to test a model they developed to approximate competition in another complex system: society, specifically social stratification. Put simply, if class structure could be thought of as the result of millions of competitions between individuals, then adjusting the frequency and upset probability of these competitions would result in more or less egalitarian societies.  \n\n“We were not driven by sports questions; we were driven entirely by statistics,” Redner says. Indeed, sports holds little interest for Redner except as a source of statistics and as the occasional metaphor. “This sports study was sort of an off-the-wall project of something that was already out in left field,” he explains.  \n\nBut this is the Super Bowl we’re talking about, not some run-of-the-mill Sunday gridiron matchup. Surely that should ratchet up the competitiveness, right? Well, not exactly. Statistics remind us that there have been only 11 upsets in Super Bowl history, meaning the big game defies the oddsmakers only 28 percent of the time. \n\nYeah, well, you can bet the Rolling Stones won’t be performing at any World Cup halftime shows.        \n\n\n\nhttp://www.bu.edu/phpbin/news-cms/news/?dept=4&id=37743&template=7
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It is popular in India because other international team sports are either not popular enough in other countries or too competitive.  For instance soccer and basketball may be more popular internationally and offer bigger salaries but they are  highly competitive and India is unlikely to win a World Cup or World Championship.  Hockey is not popular enough and there is no money for players.  Cricket is the right balance, enough countries play it to make it a lucrative career and India is competitive enough to win World Cups and even become the number 1 ranked team.
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The national game : Hockey, \nThe popular game : Cricket
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Soccer...to me its the most physically demanding sport (besides Rugby).  Its also one of the few sports out there that hasnt changed to accomodate the fans.  Most people tend not to like it cause its low scoring but thats what makes it exciting.  Also when a goal IS scored...its actually worth something unlike in hockey where now everyone and thier brother can score a goal because of the rule changes for the fans.
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Ice Hockey is the most favourite compared to other.\n\nCanada's official national sports are ice hockey (winter) and lacrosse (summer).\n\nLacrosse is a fast-paced team sport played by two teams of ten players (men) or twelve players (women), each of whom use netted sticks (called the crosse) in order to pass and catch a rubber ball with the aim of scoring goals by projecting the ball into the opponent's goal.\n\n\nCurling is another extremely popular winter sport in Canada, with the strongest support in the prairie provinces.\n\nCanadian football, like American football, is a descendant from rugby football but evolved differently and has unique rules. The eight team Canadian Football League is the top league of the sport, and the annual Grey Cup championship game is viewed by a large television audience
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Hockey is more popular
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Football (soccer), is famous worldwide because it is one of the oldest sports around.  It originated in Europe (somewhere), and has been transplanted in every country a European has landed.  Baseball, basketball, football (American), rugby, etc., are all becoming more popular, but they have only been around for a couple of hundred years, and, for the most part, only in one or two countries.
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Not sure what the allure is in other countries, but here in the U.S. most televised sports contain more action.  Few other sports can run the entire game with only one score. OK, hockey is like that, but there's more action without scoring than in soccer.  Soccer is gaining in popularity here, but don't look for it to bump any mainstream sports off the tube in the near future!
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People don't think that football is a popular sport.  IT IS THE MOST POPULAR SPORT IN THE WORLD.  That's a fact.  You must be an American to ask a question like this.
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excepting soccer, tennis, athletics, swimming, and field hockey, no other sports enjoys global popularity ... \n\nIndia is pretty bad in terms of world ranking in all of these and have not won any international tournament worth mentioning in last two-three decades (Paes-Bhupati, PT Usha being rare exceptions) ... \n\nworld-wide, chess gets poor publicity because it's more of a mind-game than sports ... \n\nbadminton is popular only in parts of Europe (mainly Scandinavia) and in Far East (Indonesia, Malaysia, China, Korea, etc.) and only Gopichand has made any mark here in post-Padukone era ... \n\nonly in cricket, India has produced some world-class players (e.g., Azhar, Tendulkar, Kumble, Dravid, Ganguly, etc.) in post-WC-1983 era - so all the media & public attention goes there ...
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Soccer!!!  Soccer is a fast moving sport.  I love the constant motion with very few breaks in the aciton. \n\nI do not care for any other sports.  Here is a rundown on most sports as I see them:\nbaseball - NO action unless player hits ball\nfootball - most of the time moves only 10 yards every hour\nbasketball - too many time outs and what fun is it to watch a game where the guys are all so tall that there is NO challenge getting the ball in the hoop...they just walk up and drop it in\ngolf - boring! takes 10 minutes to decide to hit the ball, hit the ball, then walk for another 10 minutes, repeat
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soccer is a game played world wide
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it's the best sport on earth.\n\nthat would be the FIFA world cup?
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yes soccer is the #1 sport in the world,,,,and in fact the worl cup is gonna be held in germany this year,,,soccer is the best sport! try it and you'll like it
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Shahz you have no idea what you're talking about. Soccer is currently the global sport. Basketball and Rugby(yes Rugby) aren't far behind. As for the top American sport: Football.
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Football (Soccer) is the most popular participant and spectator sport in South America