Badminton is #3 on WIRED Magazines Top Geek Sports

Who knew? I guess Mathew Honan and WIRED Magazinedid. In their 12.15 issue, they listed the top geek sports and badminton (the most fun you can have with a shuttlecock without being arrested) is #3! Eat our dust, disc golf!

The complete list:

1) Racewalking - The sporting equivalent of marching band. Inhaler required.

2) Segway Polo - The only sport in the world in which Woz (and his trusty personal transporter) could make the A team.

3) Badminton - When tennis balls get silly drunk, they dress up like shuttlecocks.

4) Hacky Sack - Based on our exhaustive research of this game, prog-rock T-shirts and ponytails aren't mandatory, but they help.

5) Curling - More a physics exercise than physical exercise. Bonus: tracksuits.

6) Jousting - Armor + the potential for internal hemorrhaging = pretty cool. If only the Ren Faire were every weekend.

7) Fencing - The fake swords — they're actually fake lightsabers. (Jedi mind trick.)

8) Disc Golf - In an ideal world, we would all put down our clubs and pick up a disc. Frolf, anyone?

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