Originally posted by ahkeeyuu Take curling for example. Or even poker. There are poker tourneys on ESPN2.
You don’t think before you type do you? Sure, Poker ain’t a sport but Curling most indefinitely is. You probably couldn’t pull off a succesful game of Curling if your life fucking depended on it. It’s a game of strategy and skill…speaking from personal experience as a former Curler…couldn’t stand the damned cold. “Sports” are games played against an opponent usually involving strategy, cunning and muscle. Although RPS is no muscular game and not really strategious Curling is. The rocks weigh anywhere from 20 pounds for the tykes and 40 up for the big people. It takes a lot of strategy and cunning to play a good game of Curling. Curling is a sport whether your feeble brain accepts it or not.
My friends and I always use rock, paper, scissors if we can’t decide who will get up and turn on the tv, or many other misc. things. But it’s all out of lazyness.
It helps to have a definition when judging what a sport is. Mine has 2 requirements: Involves a degree of physical activity; victor is determined by quantitative means.
Hence: golf, bowling, curling are definately sports, as well as more commonly agreed upon baseball, football (both), basketball, hockey, lacrosse, track and field, swimming, etc.
Not sports: figure skating, diving, synchronized swimming, cheerleading, marching band, etc. These competitions require judges to determine the winner, which eliminates them from my definition of sports.