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Old 06-17-2004, 12:45 PM
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ESPN ran this article today.

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Old 06-17-2004, 12:51 PM
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Excellent article
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Old 06-17-2004, 01:09 PM
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5) Competitive eating:

74.1% Not a sport

25.9% Sport



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Not a sport!? By the definitions posted earlier this MUST be a sport.
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Old 06-17-2004, 04:31 PM
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As the article points out, our common understanding of what makes a game a "sport" is some significant physical component. Clearly Poker doesn't have this.

But it's interesting to consider what other qualities distinguish "sports" from other games. For instance, there are plenty of physical games that we don't consider sports, for example: Hide and Go Seek, Twister, and Red Rover. Physical games become more "sport-like" the more they acquire large-scale institutional organization - tournaments, associations, rankings, etc.

That's what makes Poker (and to a lesser extent Chess and Bridge and even Starcraft and Magic: The Gathering and Scrabble) feel like a "sport", while Othello and Euchre and Halo don't.

Personally, I consider Poker to be a martial art.

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Old 06-17-2004, 04:45 PM
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(and to a lesser extent Chess...)

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The person pictured in your avatar might quibble with the "lesser extent" portion of this statement.
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Old 06-17-2004, 04:52 PM
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(and to a lesser extent Chess...)

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The person pictured in your avatar might quibble with the "lesser extent" portion of this statement.

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It still looks to me like he is giving me a bony finger!

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Old 06-17-2004, 05:10 PM
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See, it is a sport!

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Old 06-17-2004, 05:14 PM
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not much to argue with that. It must be a sport.
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Old 06-17-2004, 05:26 PM
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As the article points out, our common understanding of what makes a game a "sport" is some significant physical component. Clearly Poker doesn't have this.

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Reading some trip reports from this years' WSOP I think some might argue that there is some physical endurance required in multi-day (3+) tournaments. Several players mention how draining days 2 and 3 were (if they were fortunate to make it that far).

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Old 06-17-2004, 05:47 PM
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If you don't have the physical dexterity to cleanly riffle two stacks of ten chips, you'll never be a player.
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