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Points of Divergence : Sports
For all you sport enthusiasts out there, here's a page collecting PODs concerning the history of various sports - whether about their origins, evolution, organized and unorganized versions, you should all be able to find it here.
General musings
Sports What Ifs, courtesy of Dave
Alternate history sports discussion
Byzantines restart the Olympic Games
Challenge: American Sports in a Confederate Secession World
No Olympic boycotts in 1976, 1980 and 1984
Will women ever play professional sports alongside men ?
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Ancient, traditional and exotic sports
Byzantines restart the Olympic Games
WI: Richard the Lionheart popularizes bullfights in England
Jousting as a modern spectator sport ?
Challenge: Martial Arts in the West
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Football and Rugby
Challenge: "North American Football"
Football (Soccer) World Cup in a world with many German countries
Soccer/Football WI: Vatican soccer team in UEFA Champions' League ?
Alternate Football (Soccer) Matches
Challenge: Rugby the Dominant Sport in the United States
Challenge: Make American Football Dominant Sport in Europe
Challenge: Have The United States be a football nation (with a POD after 1900)
Challenge: Break the Old Firm's (Glasgow Celtic and Glasgow Rangers) dominance in Scottish football
England qualifying in the 1978 World Cup ?
Ferguson fails at Manchester United
WI Paul Gascoigne had joined Manchester United rather than Spurs ?
Soccer WI: Italy goals golden in 1998
WI Patriots win the 2008 Super Bowl
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Baseball
Challenge: Make Baseball popular in Europe
Baseball remains the most popular team sport in America (with a POD in 1960)
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Basketball and other ball sports
Challenge: Have basketball dominate the sports world
WI: An earlier ABA-NBA merger ?
Why hasn't handball caught on in the US ?
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Motorsports
List of Alternate F1 World Champions (1)
List of Alternate F1 World Champions (2)
Motorsport WI: Group B Lives On
Plausibility check: Sports aviation revival after the Second World War
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