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wrong. all of those are games (basketball game, soccer game, baseball game, etc)

only actual SPORT is boxing

Maybe, when I think of sports I think anything where my skill directly affects your ability to perform. In other words to be a sport there needs to be offense and defense.
 
Golf is a game, not a sport. Football, Basketball, Baseball, Tennis, Hockey, Soccer, Cricket, Polo these are sports, golf is not.
So an activity in which people ride on horses to bat a ball is a sport, while one in which people stand on their own two feet to hit a ball is not? If speed is a necessary component, then polo would be a sport...for the horse.

Golf requires eye hand coordination and control over your physical movements. It's a sport.
 
wrong. all of those are games (basketball game, soccer game, baseball game, etc)

only actual SPORT is boxing

Wow, a kindred spirit. Ali, the greatest athlete in history! Size, speed, skill, courage, a spirit that could not be defeated. I love Ali. Yeah, boxing is my favorite sport, unfortunately, we are in a period of decline, today's pups have no knowledge or appreciation of the sweet science.
 
Oopsy, WashU's little ploy of taking all the people with 40 MCATs just so they can cheat their way up to #1 in the rankings isnt working anymore.

I'm sure the adcom will come down hard on their members and tell them to increase their minimum MCAT to 42 in order to catch up to Hopkins and Harvard.
 
Golf is a game, not a sport. Football, Basketball, Baseball, Tennis, Hockey, Soccer, Cricket, Polo these are sports, golf is not.

Oh man are you so wrong. A good golf swing is the most athletic move in sports. Requires amazing hand-eye coordination to do anything of merit in the game, requires proper shifting of weight, flexibility to swing the club properly in the back, arms, shoulders, legs, strength to hit the ball, etc I could go on forever.

Also soccer being a sport and golf not? Just because you breathe hard at some points during a game does not a sport make. The hardest two things to do in all of sports are hit a fastball with a bat (i.e. baseball) or hit a golf ball well. End of discussion.

I hate this argument, as it isn't an argument. I am right.
 
So an activity in which people ride on horses to bat a ball is a sport, while one in which people stand on their own two feet to hit a ball is not? If speed is a necessary component, then polo would be a sport...for the horse.

Golf requires eye hand coordination and control over your physical movements. It's a sport.

Yes, yes in polo you are playing against someone else, there is someone trying to stop you from scoring. In golf you play against the course, and people get thrown out if they make a sound while you are demonstrating you ability to play a game.
 
Oopsy, WashU's little ploy of taking all the people with 40 MCATs just so they can cheat their way up to #1 in the rankings isnt working anymore.

I'm sure the adcom will come down hard on their members and tell them to increase their minimum MCAT to 42 in order to catch up to Hopkins and Harvard.

Too be fair, I have never really heard of WashU before. I don't even know what their hospital is.
 
Oh man are you so wrong. A good golf swing is the most athletic move in sports. Requires amazing hand-eye coordination to do anything of merit in the game, requires proper shifting of weight, flexibility to swing the club properly in the back, arms, shoulders, legs, strength to hit the ball, etc I could go on forever.

Also soccer being a sport and golf not? Just because you breathe hard at some points during a game does not a sport make. The hardest two things to do in all of sports are hit a fastball with a bat (i.e. baseball) or hit a golf ball well. End of discussion.

I hate this argument, as it isn't an argument. I am right.

How about taking a hit in the head from a heavyweight champion and not blacking out? Oh wait, swinging a metal stick takes way more endurance!
 
Yes, yes in polo you are playing against someone else, there is someone trying to stop you from scoring. In golf you play against the course, and people get thrown out if they make a sound while you are demonstrating you ability to play a game.

Right, so THATS why everyone who shoots 4 under par or better is a winner on all of those PGA tournaments, because they all beat the course!

Also, a ball is involved. You keep score. You beat other players. Do I seriously need to go on?
 
Oh man are you so wrong. A good golf swing is the most athletic move in sports. Requires amazing hand-eye coordination to do anything of merit in the game, requires proper shifting of weight, flexibility to swing the club properly in the back, arms, shoulders, legs, strength to hit the ball, etc I could go on forever.

Also soccer being a sport and golf not? Just because you breathe hard at some points during a game does not a sport make. The hardest two things to do in all of sports are hit a fastball with a bat (i.e. baseball) or hit a golf ball well. End of discussion.

I hate this argument, as it isn't an argument. I am right.


I am not saying that golf is easy by any means, however difficulty is not the only pre-req for being a sport. Who was that part time golfer that won a major a few years back? Anything where 57 year olds can seriously compete is not a sport. Also soccer is incredibly difficult to play, and is has a little more involved than people breathing hard.
 
How about taking a hit in the head from a heavyweight champion and not blacking out? Oh wait, swinging a metal stick takes way more endurance!

Yeah, let's define the word sport based on one single athletic quality. Makes sense.
 
Financially yes, career wise no. Since signing with the Euro team Josh Childress has faded into obscurity, Stanford fanboys are the only people who know he still exists.
He can opt out after any year in his contract and there will be NBA teams ready to sign him, guaranteed.
 
Yes, yes in polo you are playing against someone else, there is someone trying to stop you from scoring. In golf you play against the course, and people get thrown out if they make a sound while you are demonstrating you ability to play a game.
So chess is a sport? Checkers? HALO on XBOX Live?

I am not a golfer, but it's a sport by pretty much any measure.
 
Right, so THATS why everyone who shoots 4 under par or better is a winner on all of those PGA tournaments, because they all beat the course!
Although I disagree with his definition of a sport, there's a difference competing against other players and having other players directly affect your performance, which is what he meant.
 
Okay let's list the qualities that are involved in a "sport":

Strength
Agility
Flexibility
Hand-eye coordination
Requiring practice to be good
Mental ability / decision making
Endurance
Being old automatically makes you bad at it
Ball involved
Playing against others
Being hit in the head because for some reason you call getting in an organized fight with someone else a sport

Can anyone name a game/activity/sport that fits all of those? Didn't think so.
 
Oh man are you so wrong. A good golf swing is the most athletic move in sports. Requires amazing hand-eye coordination to do anything of merit in the game, requires proper shifting of weight, flexibility to swing the club properly in the back, arms, shoulders, legs, strength to hit the ball, etc I could go on forever.

Also soccer being a sport and golf not? Just because you breathe hard at some points during a game does not a sport make. The hardest two things to do in all of sports are hit a fastball with a bat (i.e. baseball) or hit a golf ball well. End of discussion.

I hate this argument, as it isn't an argument. I am right.

I dunno, man. There are FAT/obese professional golfers...I don't think that a sport that requires fitness is sufficient to make it a "sport," but I'd like to think that it should be a requirement.
 
Although I disagree with his definition of a sport, there's a difference competing against other players and having other players directly affect your performance, which is what he meant.

Ask any serious golfer involved in a match with another person:

say it is tied going into the last hole and the person you are playing against tees off first and drives the green on a short par 4. You would attempt to do the same to have any shot at winning. Maybe not as direct as a defender in basketball, but still.

Also ask anyone who has played alongside Tiger Woods to see if he affects them.
 
Okay let's list the qualities that are involved in a "sport":

Strength
Agility
Flexibility
Hand-eye coordination
Requiring practice to be good
Mental ability / decision making
Endurance
Being old automatically makes you bad at it
Ball involved
Playing against others
Being hit in the head because for some reason you call getting in an organized fight with someone else a sport

Can anyone name a game/activity/sport that fits all of those? Didn't think so.

Football, rugby...
 
Okay let's list the qualities that are involved in a "sport":

Strength
Agility
Flexibility
Hand-eye coordination
Requiring practice to be good
Mental ability / decision making
Endurance
Being old automatically makes you bad at it
Ball involved
Playing against others
Being hit in the head because for some reason you call getting in an organized fight with someone else a sport

Can anyone name a game/activity/sport that fits all of those? Didn't think so.

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He can opt out after any year in his contract and there will be NBA teams ready to sign him, guaranteed.
I agree, but his legacy will be the NBA player who went to Europe for 3+ years, not anything he did in the NBA or America.
 
I dunno, man. There are FAT/obese professional golfers...I don't think that a sport that requires fitness is sufficient to make it a "sport," but I'd like to think that it should be a requirement.

Eh there are fat baseball players, fat football players, etc. Not a valid argument unless you want to add "fitness" to my list.
 
Hmm. I wouldn't have expected Mayo to be so much lower than others.

I thought about that, and I think it probably has to do with how new the med school component is and how few people go there. As far as "reputation" is concerned, I'm sure they can't compete with big powerhouses like Hopkins or Harvard.
 
Okay let's list the qualities that are involved in a "sport":

Strength
Agility
Flexibility
Hand-eye coordination
Requiring practice to be good
Mental ability / decision making
Endurance
Being old automatically makes you bad at it
Ball involved
Playing against others
Being hit in the head because for some reason you call getting in an organized fight with someone else a sport

Can anyone name a game/activity/sport that fits all of those? Didn't think so.

Here is my list

List:

Strenuous physical activity
Play against others
Clear separation between pros and amateurs
 
Geez, you seem like you have the Internet forum poster's version of Asperger's Syndrome or something. Not to mock anyone on here who actually has Asperger's of course.

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Here is my list

List:

Strenuous physical activity
Play against others
Clear separation between pros and amateurs

By that, baseball is not a sport, as it doesn't involve strenuous physical activity unless you are a pitcher (maybe) or catcher, and I've played my whole life basically.
 
Neither would swimming be a sport, and its in the darn Olympics.
 
By that, baseball is not a sport, as it doesn't involve strenuous physical activity unless you are a pitcher (maybe) or catcher, and I've played my whole life basically.

Really? Scoring from first on a double is not strenuous? Stealing third is not a strenuous activity?
 
Also not track and field, not a sport by those criteria, if you call playing against others having them "directly affect your performance."
 
Really? Scoring from first on a double is not strenuous? Stealing third is not a strenuous activity?

Running 270 feet makes you strained for like what, 20 seconds? If you are talking short bursts of strenuous activity make a sport, then bowling would be, weightlifting, diving, etc.
 
all i want to say is that the stanford kid could have just said tiger woods. he didn't have to mention josh childress, the lopez twins or michelle wie. brooke has some upside because he plays on a team where they chuck up shots. unfortunately no one really watches them so he really doesn't exist
 
Running 270 feet makes you strained for like what, 20 seconds? If you are talking short bursts of strenuous activity make a sport, then bowling would be, weightlifting, diving, etc.

weightlifting and diving are sports
 
Running 270 feet makes you strained for like what, 20 seconds? If you are talking short bursts of strenuous activity make a sport, then bowling would be, weightlifting, diving, etc.

Are you playing against others?
 
Well, you have to respect an SDN (assistant) mod who makes an internet psychiatric evaluation. Impressive. I start 3rd year in two months and will do my psych rotation in about 6 months. I will keep alert and let you know how it works out. Let us know when you graduate from college.

Relax. I was kidding... I was referring more to your choice of words and how you refer to things in a somewhat random manner.
 
That's irrelevant because according to you an activity has to have all three to be a sport.

Then it would be extremely relevant because you must have all three, having just one or two criteria does not make it a sport.
 
okay the mode/style of debate that is going down right now will lead to absolutely no conclusion
 
Then it would be extremely relevant because you must have all three, having just one or two criteria does not make it a sport.

Key words in my post are "according to you."
 
okay the mode/style of debate that is going down right now will lead to absolutely no conclusion

Haha it's all good, I love getting in a good respectful argument about this, because it never does seem to have an answer 🙂
 
golf is played in virtually every country but it's not in the olympics.

football isn't in the olympics and baseball is getting phased out, but mostly due to the lack of popularity globally.
 
Wikipedia excellently voices my definition of a sport:

"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 determinant of the outcome (winning or losing)"
 
golf has rider cup. baseball is getting its swagger back with the WBC, and football is just an american past-time. just because everyone doesn't play them doesn't mean its not a sport.

cricket is pretty global 'cept here
 
arguing on the internet is like running in the special olympics
 
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