My Non-Bucket Sports List

Athletic events, moments, concepts, and individuals I hope never to encounter in this life or the next

1. The NBA Dunk Contest
2. A conversation with a sabermetrician
3. The Pro Bowl
4. The  song “Centerfield” at a baseball game
5. Rex Ryan guarantees
6. The words  “baseball” and “conditioning” in the same sentence
7. Field of Dreams
8. Other over-romanticized glosses on baseball 
9. Motocross
10. Another story on TV ratings of sporting events
11. Mike Francesa
12. The Mad Dog
13. The X Games
14. The Indy 500
15. “Cotton-eyed Joe” at Yankee Stadium
16. John Feinstein
17. Field hockey
18. Beat reporters who ask postgame interview subjects, “How big/important/exciting/disappointed, etc. was...? ”
19. The World Series of Poker
20. Pitch-by-pitch replays
21. Slo-mo revolving, exploding logos after replays
22. Heaven-pointing athletes
23. Fireman Ed
24. Bracketologists
25. The Wave
26. Cameron Crazies
27. A treatise on pitch counts
28. WWE/WWF
29. Anything NASCAR-related
30. Chest-pounding athletes
31. Half-time extravaganzas
32. Super Bowl commercials
33. Media coverage of Super Bowl commercials
34. Solemn postgame interviews with losing coaches
35. A discussion about the BCS