Originally posted by babyX:
So maybe they changed it in recent years. So what? I've seen it in the past, and it's still a term used widely in the sports media:
From ESPN today: "The reigning world champion Lakers..."
Hardly.
I'd make the same argument about basketball like I did with baseball since no one can touch us at that sport, but I won't because they are the reigning NBA Champions. The media could call Syracuse the reigning world champions of college basketball, but that doesn't represent what the NCAA calls it.
If you're arguing the media calls our champions "world", that's fine. I won't argue with that. They're in a world by themselves anyway. But they do not represent the U.S. despite what they think and what uneducated people think.
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