Is curling a sport? Since the curling shirts arrived at my home on Friday, I've been thinking: Is curling a sport, or is it merely a game? Then I thought: Is disk golf a sport, or is it merely a game? Then I thought: Is chess a sport, or is it merely a game?
No more wondering need be done. I have come up with a six-item checklist to ensure that your favorite sport is, indeed, a sport.
1) A sport must involve two or more teams or individuals that are all aiming for the same end-game result.
2) A sport must have a scoring system that is not entirely based on the speed an activity is finished. (This scoring system may be implicit, such as in billiards.)
3) A sport must have both a method of scoring and a method to keep the other team from scoring. (For example, golf does not qualify, but billiards -- where you could position the cue ball poorly for the next player -- does.)
4) A sport must involve one or more members from a defensive team in the majority of scoring situations. (For example, billiards does not qualify, as one player precedes another precedes another.)
5) A sport must be a zero-sum game: excluding ties, the number of winners in each singular sporting event must be the same.
6) A sport must involve skill and either strength or speed.
Disk golf's out at three, and if I knew more about curling, I'd know if it made it through four and six.
oh so lovingly written by
Matthew |
i sincerely do not know what you are doing here. are you lost? were you
looking for your delicate calico cat, and did you follow her up two flights of stairs
to this room? she is not here. she was here, yes. we gave her a warm bowl of milk, we talked with her about campaign finance reform for a time, and then she bid us good day. i believe she was
going to the post office two blocks down, but i don't quite recall.
for surely you did
not find your way from prinsiana, the least traveled site on
the internet. if you did, though, perhaps you are looking for humor. perhaps you are looking for profundity. perhaps you are looking for answers.
i'm sorry, but you shall go naught-for-three.
