Conference 7.286::sports_91

    Anita, what is netball?!?!?!?!!?
    
    And Bolton is a snob town....  :-}
    
    REK

    Welcome Anita Brown, soon to be Anita Slater!  Can we call you Gator?
    Just kidding, but it would make for a good ::sports nickname,
    especially if you stay on as a regular noter, which we hope you do...
    
    Regarding women's "netball" over here, DEC does have a women's
    basketball league which, I believe, plays it's games very close to
    where you're moving, so you're in luck.  Not sure, but I think it's
    seasonal (winter) and they're probably done playing right now.  Maybe
    you should try your athletic skills on women's softball, which is
    probably just starting up...
    
    Good luck, welcome, and enjoy.
    
    Hawk
    

    Oh, and Anita, don't pay attention to REK.  He has a hard time keeping
    up... :-)
    
    REK, read the note title...
    
    Hawk
    

    Hawk, I wanted HER to tell me what it is.. I read the title BUT I would
    have liked her version of it... 
    
    shessh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
    
    REK
    
    BTW, didja find the tickets yest??  :-}
    
    

    
    See, basketball was invented in this country and they first used peach
    baskets at each end of the gym.  Why they couldn't use apple baskets
    or pear baskets was a quirk whose origin is unknown.  Thus they called
    the game basketball.  Had they used cardboard boxes, we'd probably be 
    playing something called "boxball" today.  Or they could have used a
    large pair of pants to throw the ball into, and we'd have
    "trouserball."
    
    Now, by the time the English heard of the game, the baskets had been
    replaced by nets, so they had no reason to call it "Basketball", but
    used the more logical "netball" instead.  We, being stubborn yankees,
    kept to the old name whether it made sense or not.  Sorta like our game
    of football where the foot is hardly used at all.
    
    But why the English put eggs and candy in an Easter Net is still a
    mystery to me.
    
    Dickstah
    

Guys,

Thanx for the replies...  I didn't know Bolton was a "snob" town...  But 
then being English I'm sure to fit in (or so most people believe!!).

Getting back to the reason for this note...  I've played basketball over 
here and I'm afraid I'm not very good - although if I can't find a netball 
team I'll probably have to play basketball..  The only problem is that in 
netball you are NOT allowed to run with the ball, in other words once you 
catch it you stop in your tracks... Obviously, as I have been playing 
netball for so long I don't seem to 'fit in' when I play basketball (for 
the above reason!!)

On another note...  (excuse the pun)...  Are there any good gyms that you 
can recommend in the Bolton area, at present I go circuit training approx. 
4 times a week and I'm hoping to keep that going - do you have circuit 
training classes (with weights)???

I will definitely be keeping an eye on this notes file when I arrive in the 
U.S. (depending on whether or not I get a transfer with Digital!)..  
Cheers,
Anita.

    There is a Paradise Gym in downtown Hudson.  Hudson borders Bolton.
    
    They would have everything you need to circuit train.
    
    HTH,
    
    Nelly

    Anita,
    
    Welcome to the U.S. If you've never been here before, I'm sure you'll 
    find a lot of peculiar expresions. People won't know what you'r talking
    about if you say that a huge Lorry ran you off the motorway, and that
    after your car broke down, you had trouble finding the leeever to open
    the bonnet. If someone gets pissed, they are angry, not (necesarily)
    drunk. A "football coach" is not a large vehicle with approximately 40
    singing, drinking scarf-wearing hooligans, but the guy who stands on
    the sideline of a "gridiron" match with a clipboard and headphones,
    speaking in a language that only SOUNDS like English. "Let's get the
    the nickel back in thre on the 3rd and long situation, but we've got to
    watch the weak-side play-action with this run and shoot offesive
    formation...." Confused? I thought so. Maybe later you can explain cricket 
    to us.   
    
    Basketball (or netball) is primarily a winter sport here in the US. If
    you are interested in staying in shape, you might consider joining a
    team in the digital soccer (fitba) league. The league starts playing in
    May and is co-ed. Check out SMAUG::DEC_SOCCER for more details on the
    league.
    
    Cheers,
    
    Tom
    

Are you telling me that women play soccer...?  Or just join in the 
training??  I'd be keen to do the training but I certainly couldn't play - 
not through want of trying!  It's just my feet can't control a ball!!

I take circuit training classes over here and would be available to take 
classes for any teams in the Maynard area...  It's pretty gruelling as I 
go to circuit classes taken by the army - and I copy how they train in my 
classes (you certainly work up a SWEAT!!)..

Thanks for all your replies!
Anita.

�Are you telling me that women play soccer...?  
    
    Yes, women do play soccer.  There are co-ed (i.e. men & women on same
    team) as well as women's teams.  Women also play rugby, believe it or
    not.
    
    If you do get a job with DEC, a few of the facilities over here have
    Fitness Centers.

    
    Anita,
    
    In the US ONLY women play soccer.  Real men play (American) football. 
    /Don and I will have to 'splains it to ya.
    
    BOSS

    > ...a huge Lorry ran you off the motorway,...
    
    Is that like a Roseanne?  If so, I'll keep my eyes open on the 495
    today...
    
    Hawk
    

    re .11
    Hey Bruce, sure, the manliest of all manly men play American football,
    just ask Antione and Blaine, the 2 biigest fans of the Oilers and
    Packers. Yup, nothing *I'd* rather do than wear tight, brightly colored
    spandex pants, surround myself with big, muscley manly weight lifter
    types, and pat each other on the butt after making a "nice play"
    
    By the way, aren't you from San Francisco? 

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SALES::THILL                                          8 lines  15-APR-1992 13:20
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   > ...Yup, nothing *I'd* rather do than wear tight, brightly colored
   > spandex pants, surround myself with big, muscley manly weight lifter
   > types, and pat each other on the butt after making a "nice play"
    
    Oh, you MUST be a soccer player.
    
    BOSS 
    

    >By the way, aren't you from San Francisco?
    
    Not only is Bruce (Bruce) from San Fran, aka "Frisco," but he's
    been a unabashed proponent of "twinkle toe" football played by 
    coddled men wearing off-pink uniforms.
    
    And *he* dares put down men who play soccer.  
    
    MrT

    
    	Soccer is for sissies........
    
    	Claybone

    No, American football stole the name in the hopes of being soccer 
    wanna-bes.... no pads or helmets there, I guess with all the armor
    on, football guys must be the opposite of girly-men, huh?

    And Granma's Biscuits are for wussies...

    
    	You wouldn't say that if you had the good fortune of sinking
    	your teeth into one!  Mmmm mmmmm......
    
    	Claybone

    
    > kept to the old name whether it made sense or not.  Sorta like our game
    > of football where the foot is hardly used at all.
    
    I was told, it's called football because the ball is one foot long.
    
    -- Ram Nori :-)