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I’ve discovered two new interests in the last six months or so: Alternate History and NBA. So I thought why not combine the two with the help of NBA 2k24. This thread will be looking at how the Knicks not trading away their 1984 draft pick could have affected their approach to the 83-84 season...

The Soviet Union didn't join the IOC or otherwise participate in Olympic events until 1952, under the pretext that they were a decadent bourgeois showcase or something along that line of rhetoric, not changing their tune until after the war. What if, for whatever reason (slightly worse Cold War...

The year is 2018. The World Cup has been underway for the past few weeks, and it's been a very exciting tournament for all involved. Hosts Sweden are entering their home field, the Friends Arena, to face off against first-time finalists Wallonia. During the first few minutes of the match...

Kareem Abdul Jabbar was one of the greatest basketball players ever and had probably the most perfect basketball career of all time as he dominated in high school and college before joining the NBA in 1969 and having a 20 year career in the league winning 6 MVP’s and 6 Championships along with...

Imagine a world where Australia and the United States are formidable powers in international football. Imagine a world where the United Kingdom isn’t the only country with multiple teams in FIFA. Imagine a world where football is the dominant sport in India, Canada and the Caribbean. Imagine a...

Episkyros was an ancient Greek ball game. Highly teamwork oriented, the game was played between two teams of usually 12 to 14 players each, with one ball and the rules of the game which allowed using hands. Alexander the Great played it, and Galen thought it was a healthy activity, which did...

An NFL What If! It will be very short but sweet. It centers on what if the AFL never existed. Here it goes! Teams as of 1960 East Eagles Browns Giants Cardinals Steelers Redskins West Packers Lions 49ers Colts Bears Rams Cowboys(East starting in 1961) Vikings(In 1961)

Volata was a sport invented in Fascist Italy at the end of the 1920s. It enjoyed a brief phase of popularity. The sport declined and disappeared during the 1930s, due to political and sports reasons. What do you think that would be necessary for this sport to be played nowadays, in Italy and the...

Since sports have been around for millennia, I thought we could use a pre-1900 equivalent of this other thread.

Came across an interesting wikipedia article where the Directory organized a series of athletics games at the Champ de Mars in 1796, 1797 and 1798. 1796 and 97's were pretty standard. Foot races, chariot races. And all participants were French. There's an opening and closing ceremony etc. Then...

Pre-History up until league formation in 1890 Late-1840s to early-1860s: As more European immigrants began making their way into the United Sates through New York and other eastern ports, they pick up some peculiar traditions of sport. One of those was the New York style baseball (or what is...

Had there been no fatal accident in the 1999 Visionaire 500K IRL race and it was run to its entire length, what would the race have looked liked?

Immediately after the 1958 World Cup in Sweden, many teams rushed to complain to FIFA due to the immensely short time to prepare between games at the World Cup, before and during the WC. However, FIFA couldn't come to a solution. The qualifiers would take a good year to complete, and then the WC...

Something that is often commented upon is the similarity between the two games of football and throughout the years there have been various levels of interlap. Therefore your challenge is to have a formal unification of the codes with at least some international level of play (consistent...

28th August 2017 She was waiting to go on stage, the whole high-cultural world at her feet. With a sly grin on her face she glanced at the Daily Telegraph's birthdays column, a sure sign that she had Made It: "Miss Florence Welch, ballerina, 31". All young women were still addressed as such...

Prologue: Gone Fishin’ On March 23rd, 2001 the world of television and entertainment were to change forever as one of the grandest wars ever waged on the small screen came to a close after a few strokes of ink. It was not until three days later that world would learn the news of such large...