Comments on: “Sport” responses

By: matt

matt — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Is any criteria given to “field of play” – ie: is it a sport when it can be played ‘anywhere’?

Baseball – diamond, bases, mound, backstop, etc.
Football – end-zones, side-lines, hash-marks, etc.
Basketball – baskets, key, baseline, time-line, etc.
Hockey – ice, boards, blue-lines, etc.

By: mark

mark — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Winter Olympics? No sports here!

All are judged (I including clock timing as a judgement of performance).

By: Brian

Brian — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Hockey is a sport in the Winter Olympics.

If only curling had defense we might have two “sports” in the Winter Olympics.

By: patty

patty — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

not all who wander are lost…

By: Geoff

Geoff — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Time for my tweny minutes of scorn for the “chess club”. Chess is not a sport. It would be if it were like in History of the World, Part I where people are actually the pieces. Even then there needs to be the possibility of injury. For the record, two guys sitting in Central Park playing chess with the chance of being mugged does not count for a possibility of being injured.

I believe it should be added that anything that can be played while sitting down or with only one hand does not count as a sport.

As to the “field of play” comment, it is only a coincidence that a required field of play is involved. Activities have fields of play too. I think this is just a lame attempt to get Jeff and me to think about adding soccer to the list, which will never happen. You can’t use your hands and short people are good at it.

As to the final post, the “not all who wander are not lost”, I got nothing. I don’t even know what that has to do with this!