Notts County v Wolves (alternative version)

What 'sport' are you watching?

yes because it is the injuries, bad weather, rubbish players and hair pulling that i enjoy most about sport

and i forgot that american sportsmen were all really badly paid and just doing it for the love of the game...

<facepalm>

glorious ladies of wrestling by the sounds of it uncle

Yanks don't do sport

They nick our ideas and add spandex, padding and 6 hours of time-outs so the crowd can indulge in regular cheeseburger binges.

Ah but the biggest sporting market in the USA is indeed participated with unpaid athletes who have everything to prove to ensure a pro contract later.

<Major face palm smiley for the naivety of gbs comment>

And when they get that contract, the first thing they do is get themselves a reliable roid dealer.

Think they just carry on using the P.E teacher UNC

i don't think there's any shortage of steroids even in the so called 'unpaid' sport. although a lot of unpaid american sports are about as unpaid as amateur athletes used to be. but as cinci so rightly points out, that is just the feeder level where it is all about winning the pro contract, making draft and picking up the $m dollar endorsements. a bit like non-league footballers dreaming of the premier league. except with more drugs and razzamatazz.

...and murders

Drugs are all over sport, its not just about steroids, it can be far more obscure such as in the case of cycling.
My nephew is a mean Rugby player and i have heard all kinds of stories from him about ''supplements'', it is what it is.

Not really heard of any murders on the student landscape unc, though i am sure it must have happened, rape has been out there a few times but mostly the stories are about young lads careers and indeed future lives being descimated by terrible injuries.

Any way you shape it, the College sports set up in the USA is something to behold, sadly there would be no possible way of even begining to set something up similar in the UK as there is virtually no affiliation to a particular University or County(state) as there is in the USA.
The plusses are so numerous it would be impossible to list them all, whereas the footy world is pretty much a farce for youngsters, the big clubs take what they want at about 10 years old, lead them a merry dance and discard 90% of them at 18 with barely a real education.
The american football players cannot enter the NFL until they have completed 3 years and must have a high average test score(some american shít system), most incidently actually graduate first.
College basketball has a problem now because players only have to do 1 year at college, they are looking at changing that situation to the same as am. footy.