Curiosity got the better of me, so I searched for America's national sport. All I could find are references to baseball, which I thought was America's national pasttime. So, my questions are:

1) What is your nation's official sport?
2) What do you/your countrymen feel is your country's national sport?

U.S. - I don't know the official one. Unofficially, I think it's a tie between baseball and football.
Canada - Official summer sport is lacrosse. Offical winter sport is ice hockey. Unofficially, it's ice hockey.

1) What is your nation's official sport?
Landhockey, for some reason.
2) What do you/your countrymen feel is your country's national sport?
Football, with Hockey and Handball in close seconds and third.

Canada - Official summer sport is lacrosse The hell is that? Nay! In winter we play Icehockey in summer we play Streethockey! C'mon Kuemper where's your priority!

Landhockey, for some reason.Says you're from Alinge Texas/Sweden, so I assume you mean Sweden when you say our national sport is landhockey. I have never heard of this before, I always thought it was either ice hockey or soccer, but I suppose landhockey could be it too. Are you sure about it though?

1) What is your nation's official sport?
Football
2) What do you/your countrymen feel is your country's national sport?
Football

However, England is sport mad so rugby and cricket are quite big as well. Nowhere near the popularity of footy though.

Football of course.

oh and guys....it's FIELDHOCKEY.

Bahir, I'm sure. Sweden IS the best team in the World at Landhockey, and our only competitors have really been the Soviet Union/Russia, but we have usually have the advantage over them. But officially, landhockey aka (is/ute)Bandy is our national sport.

Finnish national sport is Finnish baseball a modification of the american version, a better modification if you ask me but then as a Finn I'm biased about the issue. ;)

Finnish baseball is mostly played in rural areas and smaller towns, the bigger cities have never done well in it and it's very unpopular in most of south except possibly Hyvinkää which is where I live. Most people would probably feel that ice hockey should be our national sport, since it's by far the most popular sport around here.

@ofelix - Though you are Quebecois and will argue with me on this, you may wish to read the National Sports of Canada Act cited here (http://laws.justice.gc.ca/en/N-16.7/87454.html).

That doesn't explain to me what the hell is lacrosse. It can't be my nation sport if I don't know what the bloody thing is!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lacrosse

Now that you know what it is, it can be your national sport again right? ;)

What That thing isn't my national sport? Who decided that?

Well, i know quite a few Canadians and they all play that game, but maybe it's regional, most of the guys i know are from Edmonton and Calgary.

No idea what our official national sport is, even if such a thing exists, but I would expect that most New Zealanders would say that our main sport was Rugby Union Football.

Gaelic Football, Hurling (a more violent version of hockey), and Handball are our national sports though football is more common to play.

Rugby, Ice Hockey and Cricket are also popular.

I must say it's football (soccer)

Being from the USA I have to say Baseball. I prefer futball (soccer).

Twelve-ounce curls.

The U.S. has no nation sport, but there's no tie between baseball and football. Football wins by a landslide in poularity, and in revenue. Most revenue isn't generated by ticket or concession stand sales, it's generated by the TV contracts. The more people who watch the sport, the more the sport can charge for commercials.

Here are the statistics from 2004 (2005 statistics not available, probably because it's still early in the 2005 football season):

Baseball (MLB) revenue (all 30 teams combined): $568 million.

Football (NFL) revenue (all 32 teams combined): $4.2 billion.

So based on this, there are about 8 times as many people watching football as baseball. Even during the baseball playoffs, which is when you would suppose baseball would be at it's most popular, it gets killed in ratings when there is an NFL game on in the same time slot.

I think it's either handball or soccer/football...