Sportsguy Bryant Gumbel Says It's Not A Sport If No Blacks Play

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Greg Watson wrote:

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It's a bit more complicated than that. Under that system, you'd also
declare boxing as a non-sport, when many would argue that it's the purest
sport of all. And Chess is also a sport under your system. I'd propose a
weighting system, ranking each sport based on these questions:

Is the outcome deterministic?
Do your actions have a direct effect on your opponent(s)?
Does it require athleticism?
Does it require skill?
Do external factors influence the contest (fairness)?

...and no doubt you can imagine other categories. Ranking those questions
1-5, I'd assign marks like this:

Motor Racing 5 4 4 5 1 = 19
Surfing 1 1 3 4 1 = 10 (most other 'extreme sports' similar?)
Golf 5 1 1 4 4 = 15
Football (Soccer) 5 4 5 5 4 = 23 (most other team sports similar?)
Chess 5 4 1 5 5 = 20 ?!
Boxing 3 5 5 5 4 = 22
Gymnastics 2 1 5 5 5 = 18

It all comes down to personal taste as to which of these factors is more
important to the individual. For me, I have trouble with any sport (golf
included) where you don't have any direct influence on your opponents.

Interesting way of looking at my original assertion. I would, however,
consider boardgames (such as Chess) that require zero athleticism, to
be 'games' (yes, I realise I'm shifting the goalposts...), not sports.

Your call regarding Boxing - hmm.. quite a grey area. I have to put a
disclaimer in here - what I don't know about rules of boxing would fill
several warehouses. The winner of a boxing match could be determined
as the contender that delivers a knockout blow (crooked judges and
fixed matches aside). My gut feel is that boxing is a sport, but if a
match is ended prior to a knockout, then this is where the scoring
becomes ambiguous.

Certainly, as another poster has suggested, points can be awarded for
the number of punches landed, but how does one define a 'punch'? I
think that in this instance, either a draw be declared, or additional
rounds be fought until a clear winner can be determined.

Of course, I'm not about to argue with any boxers that want to assert
otherwise... :-)

#12

In article <UBR1M2Z238774.0106018518 (AT) reece (DOT) net.au>,
on 25 Feb 2006 16:15:16 -0000,
Ron Africa-Gumbel jamumbel (AT) gumbel (DOT) biz attempted to say .....

Quote:

Bryant Gumbel

Is a moron

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