re: Harris Poll Shows Most Popular Sports in US

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TV ratings have NBA and college basketball beating world series. I guess it all depends where poll took place because I would think ratings are better way to tell popularity

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Two NBA games last year did better than the final World Series game. Game 6 & Game 7 (which was the 2nd most watched NBA since '98)

In 2011 the World Series had some of it's lowest ratings through 5 games. Then games 6 & 7 gave the World Series better ratings than the Final 4, BCS, and beat the NFL head to head, Sunday NBC (Saints/Colts).

I would say that in both cases those were outliners.

The NBA playoffs for the most part aren't a ratings sucess when compared to NFL/MLB. Most NBA playoff games have less than 5 million viewers. The Western conference Finals last year broke 5 million once.

Hawks/Pacers round 1 didn't break 200K viewers 3 different times. That's less than what college baseball on ESPNU gets. NHL Stanley Cup Game 6 had 8.2 million viewers only 9 NBA games beat that.



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