Poker a Sport?

[ArchAngel71857]

ESPN ran this article today.

Enjoy and discuss.

-AA

[GrannyMae]

1. i feel 100% poker is a sport. calling it a game infers that the outcome is mostly chance. not true

2. my thatch is shaved EXACTLY like this. want to come graze in my field?

[ArchAngel71857]

I'll come graze it as soon as I get those Kryptonite condoms I ordered.


-AA

[lefty rosen]

If Bridge is a sport then Poker is one too. Now do I really consider bridge a sport? That's another question.

[jwvdcw]

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1. i feel 100% poker is a sport. calling it a game infers that the outcome is mostly chance. not true



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I totally disagree. 'Sport' has nothing to do with whether or not its luck/skill. 'Sport' implies athletics. There is nothing athletic about poker. I don't consider bowling, golf, darts, or any other games that a 50 year old man can still be in his prime to be sports either. They are games....nothing wrong with that, but as a former college athlete who went through the rigors of getting up at 6am to go running, throwing up from being pushed so hard in practice, long road trips during finals, and so on and so on, I find it kinda offensive for those games to be put on the same pedestal.

[ArchAngel71857]

My sports law professor would argue that a sport is anything that involves a ball. (hockey being a unique exception).

Anything else is entertainment. NASCAR, Boxing, etc.

Of course I spent most of my time thinking of sports that didn't have balls. <font color="white"> Insert Granny Mae joke here </font>
-AA

[TylerD]

Surely Athletics is the epitome of sport.

[GrannyMae]

<font color="white"> Insert Granny Mae joke here


have we become so old that we can't even insert something fleshy? or are you just the pretty one and that is code for sexyton to cum complete your thought?

if you ask me, the manwhores are slipping. once was the day that i could count on insertion from all sides. </font>


My sports law professor would argue that a sport is anything that involves a ball. (hockey being a unique exception)

so what would he call poker? seriously?

[ArchAngel71857]

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Just giving you your cue. I guess by now the only cue you respond to is when I am giving it to you doggystyle, I snap my fingers and you turn around in time to wear a beautiful string of pearls.


So, I spent most of time thinking of sports that had no balls. &lt;SNAP&gt;.</font>

He responded to every other suggestion as entertainment, so he would call it entertainment or a game. I brought up boxing, which he said was entertainment, then of course I brought up Wrestling (me thinking of Olympic, Greco-Roman, REAL wrestling. Something about two men, sweating, heaving, in leotards, trying to pin the other man down and climb on top. Sounds good to me. The rest of the ignorant class was thinking WWF) to which he responded "WWF is not a sport!" and pretty much I just started browsing the web. <font color="white"> looking for your necklace </font>.

-AA

[Oski]

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My sports law professor would argue that a sport is anything that involves a ball. (hockey being a unique exception).



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If you want to get a gold star in your class, you can point out that hockey was initially played with a ball.

The story goes that (don't remember exactly) near Detroit, a rink owner was tired of the ball breaking windows as it flew wildly out of the rink. He confiscated the rubber ball and cut it into a puck.