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Ranking Sports by Their Difficulty to Play
Sports are hard!
Longtime readers know that the winners of the men’s and women’s NCAA Tournament brackets we hold every year get to assign me a newsletter topic. The person who won the men’s bracket, “sergestorm,” has yet to claim their prize — if it’s you, please let me know — but the winner of the women’s bracket was my friend Robert Wolfe, a Georgia football diehard and a dedicated listener of the Waitin’ Since Last Saturday podcast. Today, I fulfill his newsletter assignment.
Here it is:
I always thought I would get you to write about the top 20 things Trump has done well as President, but I am just over politics in general and I don’t want to cause any anxiety. Hopefully this will be more light hearted and fun. I would like for you to rank sports by skill level. You can expand or limit it as much as you want. For example, you could keep it to Olympic and professional sports, or you could include social games like pool. I would at least like to see a top 10. I go back and forth as to whether I would put golf or hockey at the top. I mean there are tons of good golfers, but in my mind golf takes a lot of skill and only elite players play at the top level. Takes a lot of skill to hit many different types of shots. Hockey players have to skate on thin blades, forwards, backwards, follow a speeding puck, have…
