A little farther down on this blog I was trying to recall sports I’ve never covered, and was struggling. I suggested badminton, but now I’m thinking I may have done some of that at the Sydney Olympics. Just dropped by to watch the shuttlecocks fly. I don’t remember for sure.

But here are two sports I can guarantee you I’ve never covered. In part because Americans rarely play them and because they aren’t in the Olympics.

Yes, rugby and cricket.

Rugby and American football were the same sport, 100-plus years ago, and then they went off on different tangents, and now rugby is fairly opaque to me. The scrums. I don’t get the scrums. And the scoring system. How does that work?

Cricket and baseball apparently share roots, but they, too, diverged a long, long time ago and now have little in common other than a hard ball struck by a man holding wood in his hands.

Cricket makes baseball look action-packed. I’ve seen it on TV, but I’ve never covered it. Never seen a cricket match in person, even. I worked briefly at a newspaper in Europe that covered lots of cricket, and I lived in terror that some major mistake would slip past me in a game story (because I had little idea what I was reading) or that I would put a headline on it that didn’t make sense.

So, rugby and cricket. Oh, and team handball. Never covered team handball. Though I’ve been told (though not lately) that it’s the second most popular sport in parts of Europe.

Oh, and jai alai. Never covered jai alai.

Nor dog racing. None of that.

I’m going to stop. I may come up with another dozen sports I haven’t written about. I’m not as well-rounded as I thought.