Re: If you play it for money, you are likely breaking the law
My friends and I had a conversation once about what is and isn't a sport. What we came up with was these two rules that sports follow:
1) Some measure of physical skill.
2) Strategy in which you must adjust to what your opponent (or opponents) do.
If it doesn't follow these two laws, it's a game. (Although nothing is to say that games can't be competitive and intense)
Now there are strange things that fall on the other side (Track & Field?), but in general, we find those two laws pretty much sum it up.
Bowling - Not a sport.
Golf - Not a sport.
Poker - Not a sport.
NASCAR - Is sitting down a physical skill? Endurance? Dexterity? The jury is still out, but the more I think of it, the more it seems to be a sport to me.
Anyway, I just saw this thread and figured I'd comment :-P
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