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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. All POD entries are sorted as chronologically as possible.


General musings and Olympic PODs

Sports What Ifs, courtesy of Dave

Alternate history sports discussion

Cultural WI: Eternal Olympic Games

Byzantines restart the Olympic Games

Challenge: American Sports in a Confederate Secession World

Confederate States at the Olympic Games and FIFA World Cup

No modern Olympic Games

List Alternate Olympic Games

1916 Olympic Truce

Alternate Winter Olympic host cities, present and future (from 1924 onwards)

Alternate Olympic Games Venues, 1948-2018

Alternate Olympic host cities

Alternate and More Awesome Olympic/Paralympic Sports

No Olympic boycotts in 1976, 1980 and 1984

Challenge: Southern hemisphere Winter Olympics

Will women ever play professional sports alongside men ?

Olympic Sports That Should Be

What city will be the first African Olympic host ?

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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 (Association Football)

Alternate Football (Soccer) Matches

Alternate Football Scores

Football (Soccer) World Cup in a world with many German countries

WI: United British Isles football team

Challenge: Have The United States be a football nation (with a POD after 1900) 1

Challenge: Have The United States be a football nation (with a POD after 1900) 2

Soccer/Football WI: Vatican soccer team in UEFA Champions' League ?

Challenge: England football team with at least one or two major tournament wins since 1966, and more semi-final appearances

England qualifying in the 1978 World Cup ?

Ferguson fails at Manchester United

WI: Cameroon beats England in 1990

WI Paul Gascoigne had joined Manchester United rather than Spurs ?

Soccer WI: Italy goals golden in 1998

DBWI: If South Korea didn't win the World cup finals in 2002

WI: Cameroon beats Brazil 7-1 in the 2014 World Cup

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American Football and Rugby

Challenge: Unified, hybridised "North American Football"

Challenge: Rugby the Dominant Sport in the United States

Challenge: Make American Football Dominant Sport in Europe

Challenge: American Football and Rugby more popular than Football

Sports WI: No USFL ?

Challenge: Break the Old Firm's (Glasgow Celtic and Glasgow Rangers) dominance in Scottish football

WI Patriots win the 2008 Super Bowl

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Baseball

Challenge: A Packers-style, publicly owned & successful major league baseball team (with a post-1901 POD)

Challenge: Make Baseball popular in Europe

Baseball remains the most popular team sport in America (with a POD in 1960)

MBL stays segregated

Challenge: Divide MLB

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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

Challenge: Motor racing at the Olympics (1)

Challenge: Motor racing at the Olympics (2)

List of Alternate F1 World Champions (1)

List of Alternate F1 World Champions (2)

Alternate NASCAR

World Touring Car Champion from the late-60s and early-70s

Motorsport WI: Group B Lives On

Formula 1 Turbo Era never ends

Plausibility check: Sports aviation revival after the Second World War

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See Also

Sports Timelines and Scenarios

Points of Divergence : Popular Culture

Points of Divergence : Society and Societal Norms


Points of Divergence Main Directory