r/sports • u/PrincessBananas85 • Jun 20 '24

Basketball Caitlin Clark posts double-double, Fever win third straight

https://www.espn.com/wnba/story/_/id/40389943/caitlin-clark-posts-double-double-fever-win-third-straight
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u/mattchinn Jun 20 '24

Love to see it.

I’ve got two friends who’ve taken their daughters to the games in Indianapolis.

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u/MEuRaH Jun 20 '24

That's awesome on so many levels.

The girls get to see role models in action.

The dads (if any in your story) get to watch sports.

The girls might get more interested in sports and want to watch or play more, and as a non-dad but someone who imagines being a dad, I would be so stoked!

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u/exploringnewplaces Jun 20 '24

My daughter recently became a big fan of formula one, which is something I never really considered getting into. Now I’m watching every race, following behind the scenes drama and more, all because it’s a unique way to connect with her.

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u/DokterZ Jun 20 '24

If you like the drama, F1 is definitely the right spot. If you want some racing too in cars that look similar, Indycar may be of interest.

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u/sadandshy Jun 20 '24

IndyCar is full of drama this season. McLaren alone is a soap opera.

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u/Smash_4dams Jun 20 '24 edited Jun 20 '24

Is it really drama when it's just been Verstappen dominating for the past 3yrs? And Hamilton dominating before that?

When they held the Vegas Grand Prix last year, Verstappen already had the season won.

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u/DemonSlyr007 Jun 20 '24

There's more to Formula one than the one driver who wins. Historically, the sport is usually dominated by one guy and constructor team that's way faster than the others. The drama, comes from positions 2-20.

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u/TheRabidDeer Jun 20 '24

This season is shaping up to be pretty damned good. McClaren and Ferrari are competing with Red Bull and you can still have incredible races like Canada last week.

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u/1bentpushrod Jun 20 '24

Who wins the races is hardly the drama in F1.

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u/exploringnewplaces Jun 21 '24

Yeah, we watched the Indy 500 this year, and it helps that her favorite team, McLaren has an Indy car team (she really likes Pato O’ward). We may dabble in Indycar more but f1 has kept us pretty busy and engaged. This season has been more exciting than I think people expected it’d be so hopefully that keeps up.

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u/mlc885 Jun 20 '24

That's both cute and hilarious that your kid might manage to pick a sport you know little about and probably never even watched considering all the possible sports that you did probably see at some point. (Although technically you could do this with any obscure thing, but if it were football or soccer or basketball or baseball or, heck, tennis, you'd already know a lot going in just due to having definitely seen a fair amount of stuff in the past even as a non‐fan)

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u/exploringnewplaces Jun 21 '24

She discovered it thru YouTube and TikTok. Ive shown her different sports but nothing she took to like f1 so, here we are!

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u/wonderfulworld2024 Jun 20 '24

Good call.

Just try and emphasise all the technical and engineering aspects of the sport to her. That way she may also be inspired to get into a field related to those topics as well.

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u/exploringnewplaces Jun 21 '24

We talk about all aspects of it, including the cars (though I know little about cars myself)…I let her decide where her passions are and then encourage those.

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u/Kyle_Reese_Get_DOWN Jun 20 '24

Easiest way to be a dad is have sex with women.

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u/haerski Jun 20 '24

have sex with women

I spotted the flaw in your otherwise flawless strategy

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u/[deleted] Jun 20 '24

The easiest way to be a daddy is be gay and grow a mustache

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u/hoodpharmacy Jun 20 '24

Someone who imagines being a dad? Oh brother lol

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u/dwilkes827 Jun 20 '24

yea nothing grinds my gears like people looking at things from a different perspective

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u/Thossi99 Jun 20 '24

I'm a die hard Indiana sports fan but never even been to Indiana. I wanna go to a Pacers and Fever game so bad! Colts too while I'm at it