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And now for a random opinion...

The best sports are exciting and beautiful because they involve constant action and movement. These games involve tremendous skill and athletic prowess, but never for their own sake. The essence of the game is movement, and the best players are like master artists painting their impromptu masterworks on a canvas of space and time. Passing lanes and shooting angles open and close in the blink of an eye. What was a goal one moment is good defense a fraction of a second later. My list of the four best, most exciting, most beautiful sports in the world:

1. soccer
2. ice hockey
3. basketball
4. Australian football

The most boring and overrated sports are dumb because they involve standing around most of the time. It is difficult to fathom why people get so enthusiastic about these sports. They are as exciting as watching grass grow. Come to think of it, they pretty much are watching grass grow.

1. cricket
2. golf
3. baseball
4. rugby union

Although rugby certainly involves physical exertion, unlike the others on this list, the rules of rugby union make for a slow and dull game with a lot of fishing the ball out from under piles of bodies, massive phalanxes butting heads for little reward, and punting the ball for position. It is a like a bunch of offensive lineman from American football trying to push each other around without ever getting a chance to catch their breath. Australian football is arguably just as rough-and-tumble but involves immensely more action.