I hadn't really thought about racing games being considered sports games but I guess they are. Gran Turismo seemed to appeal to literally everyone except me. I just couldn't get into it.

I too played some Tony Hawk game, the one where one of the zones was Area 51. Great soundtrack on those as well. I tried one of the recent MLB games that was free on PS Plus but it was so damn complicated that I found it really difficult to do anything. That combined with the fact that the computer controlled opponent go so damn slow when pitching and I just got impatient and quit.

I played Mike Tyson's Punch Out but I wouldn't really consider that a sports game. it was more like an adventure cartoon game that happened to have boxing gloves involved in it.