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Posted: Thu Jan 03, 2008 2:16 pm
by SportsMa
This whole thread is just plain silly and like an idiot or moron I keep reading it.
Posted: Thu Jan 03, 2008 3:32 pm
by Silent But Deadly
Twinnesota wrote:elliott70 wrote:An old and good friend once told me the difference in sport and athletic event is that in sport you have the abiltiy (within the rules) to effect the outcome of your opponent or said another way to play defense.
Well, that takes out most track events, too !!!
AND singles tennis...which is mostly offense [ulness you just cover your face to stop a volley].
AND gymnastics...unless you are out there tripping your opponent.
AND individual swimming...unless you try to drown the other guy.
What a silly post !!!
T
I thought Elliott70 made sense until I read T's post......I won't sleep tonight trying to solve this mystery!
Posted: Thu Jan 03, 2008 3:40 pm
by Twinnesota
Well there's more...
That takes out "sporting" clays and skeet shooting [unless you shoot the shooter] !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
T
PS---In England it would take out Fox Hunting as "sport"
[One good thing is that if we eliminated most of the activities, we would have less reason to be good "sports"]
Posted: Thu Jan 03, 2008 3:56 pm
by RSI
Posted: Thu Jan 03, 2008 4:16 pm
by Twinnesota
What say we add curling?
T
Posted: Thu Jan 03, 2008 4:33 pm
by MNHockeyFan
Twinnesota wrote:What say we add curling?
T
What little I know about curling, isn't there quite a bit of defense involved, with positioning your stones and knocking your opponents' out of the circles, etc.?
"An old and good friend once told me the difference in sport and athletic event is that in sport you have the abiltiy (within the rules) to effect the outcome of your opponent or said another way to play defense."
Curling then would seem to qualify as a sport, more so than bowling!
Posted: Thu Jan 03, 2008 4:51 pm
by northlandpro
Girls hockey is most certainly a sport and a much better use of icetime than figure skating which is banned in Roseau & Warroad.
Posted: Thu Jan 03, 2008 4:55 pm
by RSI
So then by using Elliott's "defense" definition we can eliminate the NBA and NASCAR as sports.
Lets not forget
most of the Olympic events (notice I didn't call them sports), both Summer and Winter. Not too much defense played in the luge, downhill skiing, speedskating, 100M dash, hurdles, decathalon, long jump, pole vault or on a bobsled
I'm glad they don't try to defend the javelin
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Posted: Thu Jan 03, 2008 5:31 pm
by Sioux Rule
northlandpro wrote:Girls hockey is most certainly a sport and a much better use of icetime than figure skating which is banned in Roseau & Warroad.
Well stated, Pro.
Posted: Fri Jan 04, 2008 8:16 am
by State Champ 97
RSI wrote:So then by using Elliott's "defense" definition we can eliminate the NBA and NASCAR as sports.
Lets not forget
most of the Olympic events (notice I didn't call them sports), both Summer and Winter. Not too much defense played in the luge, downhill skiing, speedskating, 100M dash, hurdles, decathalon, long jump, pole vault or on a bobsled
I'm glad they don't try to defend the javelin
Eliminating the NBA and Nascar would not hurt my feelings one bit.
Posted: Fri Jan 04, 2008 12:20 pm
by northlandpro
Sioux Rule wrote:northlandpro wrote:Girls hockey is most certainly a sport and a much better use of icetime than figure skating which is banned in Roseau & Warroad.
Well stated, Pro.
Why thank you Sioux, have you cleaned out the elevator yet?
Posted: Sat Jan 05, 2008 4:14 pm
by Sioux Rule
northlandpro wrote:Sioux Rule wrote:northlandpro wrote:Girls hockey is most certainly a sport and a much better use of icetime than figure skating which is banned in Roseau & Warroad.
Well stated, Pro.
Why thank you Sioux, have you cleaned out the elevator yet?
I personally went over there to check it out. The elevator now smells like Gopher excretion. Not one of the Fighting Sioux's prouder moments......