touching a catcher's back

[Tim C]

Soccer is a great "Third World Sport" . . . as all you need is something to pass as a ball . . . the pitch can be a city street, a field or worse yet a mine field . . .

Any type car race simply has the ultimate penalty for error . . . if AROD makes his seventh error of the week we see "E5" on the scoreboard . . . When Adam Petty, Kenny Irwin, Arton Senna, Jimmy Clark, Peter Revson, or Fireball Roberts made their "error" the penalty was ultimate.

The good old USA has its own "Third World Sport" . . . HOOPS, all you need is a ball and a play ground.

I think by nature "sport" is hard to define because beauty is, as we know, "in the eye . . . " you know the rest . . .

I have same argument constantly about art: is my work art (abstract expressionist), is "jazz fusion" music, and is "American Idol" entertainment?

Hot stove leagues once were about the passion of sport . . . now we don't even know how to define "sport".

Regards,

[TussAgee11]

Originally Posted by Tim C

Any type car race simply has the ultimate penalty for error . . . if AROD makes his seventh error of the week we see "E5" on the scoreboard . . . When Adam Petty, Kenny Irwin, Arton Senna, Jimmy Clark, Peter Revson, or Fireball Roberts made their "error" the penalty was ultimate.

See you have some knowledge on the subject T. Good to see somebody knows that more people have died than just Dale Sr. Unfortunatly that's what it took to get NASCAR safe.

I will say this though, some of the guys you mentioned died in fluke deals where the machine was to blame, not the car. If you want more details PM me, Irwin's is by far the wierdest.

[SanDiegoSteve]

Originally Posted by TussAgee11

I will say this though, some of the guys you mentioned died in fluke deals where the machine was to blame, not the car.

Did you mean "not the driver?" Just trying to make the sentence jibe.

[TussAgee11]

yes, SDS I did.

Adam Petty died when his throttle hung wide open going into a corner. Machine failed.

Kenny Irwin died when a piece of metal from the engine actually broke, came through the cockpit, and sliced him in half. He didn't even die of a wreck. That is freakish.

Thanks for the correction

[AlabamaBlue]

From Dictionary.com: sport  /spɔrt, spoʊrt/ Pronunciation Key - Show Spelled Pronunciation[spawrt, spohrt] Pronunciation Key - Show IPA Pronunciation

–noun 1. an athletic activity requiring skill or physical prowess and often of a competitive nature, as racing, baseball, tennis, golf, bowling, wrestling, boxing, hunting, fishing, etc.


From the Oxford English dictionary: sport

• noun 1 an activity involving physical exertion and skill in which an individual or team competes against another or others.


Given that, how is boxing, UFC, etc not a sport? Just because you don't think it is?

[SanDiegoSteve]

Originally Posted by AlabamaBlue

From Dictionary.com: sport  /spɔrt, spoʊrt/ Pronunciation Key - Show Spelled Pronunciation[spawrt, spohrt] Pronunciation Key - Show IPA Pronunciation

–noun 1. an athletic activity requiring skill or physical prowess and often of a competitive nature, as racing, baseball, tennis, golf, bowling, wrestling, boxing, hunting, fishing, etc.


From the Oxford English dictionary: sport

• noun 1 an activity involving physical exertion and skill in which an individual or team competes against another or others.


Given that, how is boxing, UFC, etc not a sport? Just because you don't think it is?

Thank you! That's what we needed, a dictionary! Great job.

[tibear]

Your never going to get everyone to agree on what a sport is. Hell, some people think mud wrestling and poker are sports.

I think we each have our own opinion on what constitutes a sport.

In my humble opinion I would only allow sports into the Olympics that have no judges. Say goodbye to figure skating, gymnastics, boxing(unless they go until a knockout or TKO), diving, style points in sky jumping, "artistic" snowboarding events, etc.

Having said that though, I would also get rid of the 2-man luge. Any activity where one guy is lying on another and moving together as one is something I don't want to see.

[BigTex]

Originally Posted by AlabamaBlue

From Dictionary.com: sport  /spɔrt, spoʊrt/ Pronunciation Key - Show Spelled Pronunciation[spawrt, spohrt] Pronunciation Key - Show IPA Pronunciation

–noun 1. an athletic activity requiring skill or physical prowess and often of a competitive nature, as racing, baseball, tennis, golf, bowling, wrestling, boxing, hunting, fishing, etc.


From the Oxford English dictionary: sport

• noun 1 an activity involving physical exertion and skill in which an individual or team competes against another or others.


Given that, how is boxing, UFC, etc not a sport? Just because you don't think it is?

So by that rationale, if I go into my backyard and my son and I try to throw dirt clods into a bucket, it is officially a sport?

I gotta go and contact the IOC and lobby to have dirt-clod tossing in the Beijing games, I am pretty good at it, and I can do our country proud.

[mbyron]

Some people think making idiotic posts on the internet is good sport.

Takes all kinds.

[BigTex]

Originally Posted by PWL

How about going down by the railroad tracks and throwing rocks at the telephone poles.

If you and I go together, and decide that we should compete on who hits the pole more, it would be a sport!