FanNation - The Republic of Sport

Main Entry: 2sport
Function: noun
Date: 15th century
1 a: a source of diversion : recreation b: sexual play c (1): physical activity engaged in for pleasure (2): a particular activity (as an athletic game) so engaged in
2 a: pleasantry, jest b: often mean-spirited jesting : mockery, derision
3 a: something tossed or driven about in or as if in play b: laughingstock
4 a: sportsman b: a person considered with respect to living up to the ideals of sportsmanship <a good sport> <a poor sport> c: a companionable person
5: an individual exhibiting a sudden deviation from type beyond the normal limits of individual variation

i know i'll get smoked by the nascar fans....but according to his definition, nascar shouldnt be a sport unless you consider it on the same level as school and playing the flute

Sport is an activity that is governed by a set of rules or customs and often engaged in competitively. Sports commonly refer to activities where the physical capabilities of the competitor are the sole or primary determiner of the outcome (winning or losing), but the term is also used to include activities such as mind sports (a common name for some card games and board games with little to no element of chance) and motor sports where mental acuity or equipment quality are major factors. Some of the physical sports include association football, basketball, water polo, and baseball.

thats from wikipedia......

duqu still makes a valid and better argument

NASCAR is a sport. You don't like it, but that doesn't matter. I dont' like Golf, Tennis, Baseball, and non-World Cup Soccor, but they are still sports.

Its a sport. Lets stop these TDs. Its over done. If you don't like it fine but its still a sport. I can't stand it but the drivers have great skill and need more concentration than most other sports depend on. Most other sports your concentration only has to last a 10 seconds if that, in NASCAR you have to be totally aware of everything the whole time your car is running. Football you get a 30 second breaks between 5 second plays, baseball you can doze off when you team is batting and in the field the ball is rarely in play.

*Soccer

not a sport

anyone actually reading the args besides prodigy?

I did. And I agree that law school is a sport.

You get "drafted"
You "compete" for rank
You "perform" for judges
You get "scores"

What more do you want?

If you have a flock of admirers and half naked women wanting to see you drive 200mph,...thats a sport! the audience is what makes anything a real functioning sport, its entertainment and it revolves around competion..so its a sport.. i'm sure duguesne has a couple of fans cheering him on thru his law school journey..but not half naked women or beer bellied men.. that i'm sure of...

screw it, if its on ESPN, then its a sport,..ex. the national spelling bee,(those kids are crazy smart!), and the cup thingy, idk but it looks hard!..lol.

so poker, the spelling bee etc are sports?

What we have from the definition is that Chess, Go, and Scrabble are all sports. Maybe we should have some Scrabble TD's on fannation. Not.

I think NASCAR is a sport, but I don't think the drivers are athletes. Further, I think NASCAR is separated from other sport categories because it is a "motor" sport. That differentiates it from football, baseball, basketball, etc. I'm leaning left, but the argument is going to have to be a little stronger. Will wait for further argument.

people define sport in their own different ways. This is too subjective to really pick a clear winner. If you're competing in law school and use strenthg to go about that, then yeah it is sport in the true definition. We live in the 21 century though, where people dont often think outside the box and everything has to black and white to make sense...in other words we arent very creative as a whole anymore. Getting people to think any activity other than that which uses a ball is a sport is almost impossible because they are trained to think otherwise. For most people, it's a struggle to think outside of what society has presented to them as the norm. It's sad, but true. Most people believe and always will no matter what Webster's tells them, that to be a sport it must involve running, jumping, and some soft of stick and/or ball...

The last TD I saw on this, someone was trying to argue the fact that NASCAR wasn't a sport, but IndyCar was.. it was pretty bad. Some people think it is, some don't... whatever. If you don't like it, don't watch it... just ignore it. I don't like curling, but you don't see me making a huge stink about how curling isn't a sport (which it is, of course).

Anything done in a competitive nature for entertainment is a sport. So yes NASCAR, competitive eating, poker, bowling golf and non-world cup soccer are all sports. They may be bad sport and either not fun to watch or just stupid in their conception but they are a sport. In essence anything could be a sport.

Anything done in a competitive nature for entertainment is a sport. So yes NASCAR, competitive eating, poker, bowling golf and non-world cup soccer are all sports. They may be bad sport and either not fun to watch or just stupid in their conception but they are a sport. In essence anything could be a sport.

Twizlamic | 05/08/08, 01:02 PM

But you are completely diluting the term that way. When someone says "I play sports" the colloquial nature of the term lends itself to more meaning than simply "anything at all that can be construed as competitive in any way." The connotation is that the person engages in athletic competition and doesn't just play tiddlywinks, Halo 3, or weave baskets.

I'm voting right because I've had it with seeing this throwdown in it's many forms every single damn day on here.

Guess what....somebody claimed that before you...and then somebody else, then another, and another, and another, and another, and another.