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Yet many consider Nascar and Golf sports.
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CW Getting Into the Sports Business
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Actually, the thread began as an announcement of a new "sports" program on CW. My point was that video games are not "sports".
I remember the figure 8 jalopy races from Long Island, NY. Those were televised as sports programs but were anything but sports.
TV programming is all about the audience it draws but that does not change its definition.
I'm sure the networks and stations who air these programs consider them sports but neither meet the definition. While being in top athletic form is obviously an asset when playing competitive sport it is not a requirement in either of these. I can list many participants who were leagues removed from being athletes yet were consistent winners.
It depends on who makes the definition. The definitions that I've seen are not the same as the one you posted.
If the CW wants to call something a sport, and millions of fans consider it a sport, then for them, it's a sport. Just because you disagree doesn't mean they're wrong. No one's forcing you to watch.
The Concise Oxford Dictionary defines sport in this context as:
sport
n noun
1 an activity involving physical exertion and skill in which an individual or team competes against another or others for entertainment. Øsuccess or pleasure derived from an activity such as hunting.
Golf, which requires skilled physical action, would be a sport. NASCAR, which involves hours of skilled and tiring steering, braking, accelerating, etc., would qualify. So would boxing, which you disqualified yesterday.
You can call a fish a bird but it won't change anything.
The CW, as well as every other broadcaster, can change their marketing definitions all they want - and they do so for revenue purposes - but it doesn't change the definition.
What would your definition of sport be?
The "Concise Oxford Dictionary" doesn't even mention sport being an athletic contest. Shooting deer with a rifle is a sport? Get real! Fishing? Nada! Checkers? Only if you sweat. Lots of activities require endurance and concentration so I suppose chess would also qualify under their definition. Nope. They are obviously using ESPN's definition of "sport" which would be "anything we broadcast".
I gave it in Post #7. If it's competitive, its a sport.
So even fake "sports" qualify as sports too?
You mean like Fantasy Football? Yes.
I think TheBigA got it right.
"If it's competitive, its a sport."
I'll add to that. If it can be marketed as a sport, it's a sport.
"If it's competitive, its a sport."
I'll add to that. If it can be marketed as a sport, it's a sport.
Give the deer and other wildlife weapons of their own and then I will agree.
How about giving the deer a paper bag?
Vince McMahon admitted that pro wrestling isn't a sport many years ago. His company is in the business of "sports entertainment." It's athletic but noncompetitive in a results-oriented sense -- obviously, the participants are trying to put on the best performance they can in order to move up in the company's pecking order and make more money.But no matter how it's marketed, it's not a sport.
In a gray area are events like rhythmic gymnastics or the artistic swimming events you see in the Olympics -- they're athletic and judged on a scoring system, but the scoring is subjective, and it's based on aesthetics rather than athletic ability.
Checkers and chess are games. They lack any athletic component whatsoever. The challenge is all mental. One interesting gray-area game/sport is snooker, a devilishly difficult version of billiards that has been something of a British obsession for years. Individual games can last an hour, matches over 16 hours, split over two days. It's more athletic than pool, as the table is much bigger and a lot of stretching is required, but it's more a test of skill, concentration and endurance. I'd go for sport, but others will probably differ.
In a gray area are events like rhythmic gymnastics or the artistic swimming events you see in the Olympics -- they're athletic and judged on a scoring system, but the scoring is subjective, and it's based on aesthetics rather than athletic ability.
Checkers and chess are games. They lack any athletic component whatsoever. The challenge is all mental. One interesting gray-area game/sport is snooker, a devilishly difficult version of billiards that has been something of a British obsession for years. Individual games can last an hour, matches over 16 hours, split over two days. It's more athletic than pool, as the table is much bigger and a lot of stretching is required, but it's more a test of skill, concentration and endurance. I'd go for sport, but others will probably differ.
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