Re:How were gladiators portrayed in ancient Rome?
by wizofaus on Monday September 25, 2023 @03:45PM
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FWIW in Australia we have reasonable exposure to baseball (and/or softball and even "rounders", both of which we got to play at school a few times), so much of the terminology and the basic rules are well enough known. I wouldn't say the same for gridiron though, which I've never seen played here at all.
Do you even see people playing cricket anywhere in the US? Surely in areas with large subcontinental populations (SV?) there'd be some uptake?
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Re:How were gladiators portrayed in ancient Rome?
by hotnfresh on Monday September 25, 2023 @04:04PM
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> Do you even see people playing cricket anywhere in the US
It’s not impossible to find, and exactly where you’d expect: the closer you are to a major population center, and the larger & more internationally-prestigious the nearest university, the more like you are to see it in the wild.
But over most of the US, yeah, you could easily go your whole life and never even see a cricket bat in person, let alone a match being played.
Rugby seems to be a significantly more popular than cricket, though still uncommon, considered over the whole geography of the country.