badminton got me an 'A'

Ever since I was badminton champion of my high school (fine, of my jr. year Fit For Life class), I've become a connossieur of the sport (when I say connossieur, I mean I just looked up a bunch of stuff about 10 minutes ago). Badminton is one of the greater sports because it's origins date back at least 2000 years. What other sport has ancestors with names like "Battledore" and my personal favorite "Shuttlecock"?

When first researching the sport, I came to the conclusion that Badminton must be a game at which women are more competent. From 1949 to 1967 the US won 23 World Individual Championships--12 of those being women's singles and 8 women's doubles. But with further reading, I became aware that it wasn't a women's sport at all--it's an Asian's sport. In 1992 when Badminton made it's full-medal debut at the Barcelona Olympics, all of the top honors went to Asian countries. This may explain how I became Badminton Champion of my Junior year Fit For Life class (my partner was Phillipino). Either way, I got an A. Here are a few other things I learned about Badminton:

1. Badminton became more popular in the 1930s when several Hollywood personalities including James Cagney, Bette Davis, Boris Karloff, Dick Powell, Ginger Rogers, Joan Crawford, and Douglas Fairbanks became avid players (Boris Karloff somehow makes the sport totally legit for me).

Tangent--Reasons I like Boris Karloff:

1. He was Frankenstein
2. He's pretty much something creepy in everything he's done
3. He was in a movie called "The Ghost in the Invisible Bikini"

2. The only place listed to play Badminton in Utah is at the University of Utah.
3. Raju Rai has been athlete of the year for three years running. Hopefully he/she can make it four.