Yea, fishing should count as a sport. I like to watch Bassmasters whenever it comes on tv. The only thing is it airs during the late afternoon so I usually miss it. They had a shark fishing tournament as well which was interesting.

I think you can stream any of the sporting events now. I was watching the champion's league online all last year during work. The quality sucked but it was better than reading about the action.

One of my dreams is to hit up a champion's league final involving Manchester United. Missed out on the last 2 years, but I think we'll still have some chances in the coming years.

Do you reckon that darts could be considered a sport? It requires skill alright but i don't know if
it fits comfortably into the "sports" category. The other one which i am unsure about is chess.
Again it requires skill of course (and alot of it!), but is it really a sport? Some would classify it
as such.

I reckon that darts is a sport, because shooting and archery is a sport. I am not too sure which category i would chess in though..mmm

I say if it's shown on a sports channel then it should be considered a sport. However, I've never seen chess on a sports channel while darts is shown occasionally.

So what category would you put chess in..( It's making my brain hurt just thinking about this question..)

Ah ...I know the bro to ask..."Come on bro Cunning". put us bro's out of our misery..

hey, chess is a sport, somewhat - involves a winner and loser (mostly).  If anyone wants to talk chess, I can talk all day and night about it.  And chess is definitely televised for big matches in most European countries and occasionally in the U.S.

Funny story about that, in 8th grade there was this girl (we'll call her Carmen) who used to play chess with me a lot.  At that point in time I was a awkward shy kid with no social skills whatsoever, while Carmen was this outgoing girl with huge tits on short tiny frame, yeah even for a 13 year old.  One time for some reason she asked me during lunch if I wanted to play chess with her, and for some reason I blurted out "yeah I would love to play with your chest".  Oh I was pretty embarrassed that that came out - I was such a nerdy guy in those days.  Luckily she probably had heard something like that before so she just laughed, didn't make a big deal out of it.

Too bad, at our 25 year High School reunion a couple of years ago, I saw her and she told me she had breast reduction surgery.  What a shame....

As far as "futbol" goes, I was deeply saddened that this past week, my USA team lost 2 of their 4 best players for lengthly periods of time, to a car accident and a knee injury.  And to think that the fucking AC Milan owner wants Team USA to pay up because of their players (Gooch Onyewu) got injured playing in an World Cup qualifier.

Thanks for putting our minds at rest now bro, chess is offically a sport.  I used to play chess a lot in my younger days..( At highschool and college.) I was pretty darn good at the game mainly because my dad liked to play chinese chess. ( kicked my sorry arse every time.) The moves are near enough the same so i think i had a slight advantage there..There was this one thing that my dad kept doing that bugged me so much in my teenager years. While play chinese chess,he would say don't move that , if you move that i will take that. God could my dad prolong a game.

Thats tough Bro JeSun. Many don't take the US football (i.e. soccer) team very seriously but really, they have been making
considerable progress for a country where soccer is not as popular as some of the other American sports. Just look at the
recent Confederations Cup. Who would have thought that the US would make it all the way to the final. Its actually a
rather strong team and i dare say quarter-finals at the World Cup 2010 is a distinct possibility. As for AC Milan, its a mercernary
team...no way they gonna get 'compensated' for those injuries. While club managers cringe at the prospect of losing their
players to injury on international duty, its really a part of the game.

Back to the topic, if chess qualifies, then i suppose texas hold'em is a sport as well? They have been putting it on all
the sports channels and it does require skill and there will always be a winner/loser.

if chess is a sport which essentually is a board game, does that make monopoly a sport?

I wish I was as optomistic as you, but at this point, unless there's a major revelation, the US roster isn't talented enough and has the wrong type of players.  They'll be lucky to just get out of their group.  Losing Charlie Davies to the car accident was a huge huge loss.  No one on the team save for Landon Donovan has the speed that Charlie has, and he and Jozy Altidore made a tremendous combination of speed, skill and strength.  There's no other striker and forward out there with Charlie's ability, unless Freddy Adu can get some real playing time in Europe, or someone in the MLS like a Jeff Cunningham gets "rediscovered".

The reason why I say "rediscovered" is that the coach tends to play the same players instead of trying to find new players.  He only found Charlie Davies last year because of injury situations.  Plus the coach tends to play a style that favors bigger more physical players, while technically gifted players like midfielder Jose Francisco Torres languishes on the bench.  There are now 3 major holes that need to be filled - a wing forward, a great holding midfielder and left back.  Perhaps the holding midfielder will come soon since Jermaine Jones from Schalke in the Bundesliga will join the national team once he recovers from surgery.  Left back may also be filled by another "convert" in Mexican First League player Edgar Castillo.  I'm not optomistic though that the coach will try out these new guys, even though both are very talented.

I'm impressed by your knowledge of the US futbol team. I'm ashamed to say that I haven't really been keeping up with them, although I was saddened to hear of Davis' injury. I do think the US has come a long way and the world cup being held in the US in the 90's exposed many to futbol. I think we do have some talented young player for the future, many have moved to Europe to learn more but I did hear some of the opting to play for other countries other than the US (Rossi, Subotic).

Maybe if we do well in South Africa kids in the US will start to take it seriously rather than view futbol as a fallback to football and basketball. Too bad the Beckham experiment didn't do much, I think it was a huge bust.

Its still Bruce Arena in charge isn't it? Well, the thing about a football team like the USA is that
alot of the so-called stronger footballing nations take to the field without giving them much
of a serious thought. And i think that was how Bruce Arena managed to work that in his
advantage. I can never forget the way the US team of the World Cup 2002, without many
big names and only a fledging Landon Donovan, managed to blitz a golden generation of
Portuguese players into a 3-0 lead and hanged on to win 3-2. That game made me sit up
and take notice.

Would love to see Team USA come on down to Wembley and take on England in a friendly
prior to the World Cup next year. I will pay for a good seat for that one

no, Bob Bradley is in charge.  Little known coach who was 2nd choice after Jurgen Klinsmann turned down the job.  Another problem that he has is that he tends to play his son Michael Bradley a bit too much.  The younger Bradley is a talent but a bit too undisciplined to be playing as a central midfielder and not enough speed to play the outside.

At this point, there probably wouldn't be anyone on the US team that could play on the English national team.  Maybe Tim Howard of Everton, maybe Landon Donovan would be reserves.  The best player that plays in the EPL for the US isn't even on the team - venerable GK Brad Friedel of Aston Villa.  What the US has are a bunch of guys who can play in the upper echelon European leagues but play for lower-rated teams.

I don't think monopoly can be compared to chess for several reasons. If the widest definition
of "Sport" is used, then it would suggest:

1. A competitive setting
2. A level of skill and strategy is required.

Monopoly is not meant to be competitive at all (i guess you could make it so, but it is not
a game that is inherently competitive in nature). But most importantly, Monopoly relies
heavily on luck (throw of the dice and which square you land on) as compared to Chess
where skill and strategy are most definitely required.

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I love to watch Mixed Martial Arts ( MMA ). I know is not  TEAM SPORT but i love watching men or women fighting. some people thinks the ground game is boring sometimes but is ;like a chess match one bad move you will be choke out or have one of your body part bring rip off you body...

Alright Raptor...I like watching wrestling, i know it is fixed but it is still quite entertaining. Especially women wrestlers..

I'm very much into sports and, for me, a sport should requires some physical prowess. That would exclude darts, fishing, chess and any other board game. Also excludes bowls [including 10-pin], video games, shooting, archery, driving cars or motor cycles and golf. I'm sure there are lots of others, but, basically, if an unfit, overwight guy can do it, at it's top level - it's not sport. Think John Daly in golf.

[quote]Originally posted by Lenny at 18-10-2009 14:17
if an unfit, overwight guy can do it, at it's top level - it's not sport. Think John Daly in golf.
  

Come on bro.... Golf is harder that you think. I can say that,cause i am a physically gifted person. I have try lots of sports, In my teen days i was a very good rock climber at a very high level. Climbing need every part of your body in control. With that said golf is the hardest sport i ever try. you can't make any wrong movement of your body or that little with ball will go which ever way but straight. But i think table tennis is the harder sport.

I'm a NYer and so as that I would say NY Yankees for Baseball and Giants for football...