That’s the question ’s executive editor Josh Levin set out to answer in a hilarious Along the way, he implemented a few rules:
– No two states can have the same sport
– Sports can be atomized (Kentucky, for example, was assigned men’s college basketball; Tennessee has women’s college basketball; Utah was given church basketball)
– A sport can be anything that is plausibly a sport (this is how Ohio got cornhole)
– Official state sports will be honored if possible (but only one of the three states that officially endorses rodeo will get it—that’d be South Dakota. Sorry, Texas and Wyoming)
Do you agree? What did he miss?