Shouldn't be a sport

[Randy]

What "sport" do you consider the least deserving of being called a sport?

 

[Crusader]

Chess, darts, those thing of games. To me sports are a physical activity where you require some kind of fitness.

 

[DrLeftover]

This one blog post combines TWO of the things that have no business being called a 'sport' except that they are a business and because of the money involved it is covered by ESPN.

Ninth Annual World Series Of Poker Fantasy Draft

The cards hit the felt at the Rio in Las Vegas on May 27 and for the next seven weeks, players from around the world will aim to make poker history by winning large amounts of cash and shiny gold bracelets. The World Series of Poker is more than the main event that you to see on our ESPN broadcasts. The World Series of Poker is a tournament series that includes nearly 70,000 players competing in 65 events of differing variations of poker and buy-ins. The one that emerges with the most success could potentially be a player like Daniel Negreanu, who won the 2013 WSOP Player of the Year title, or 2012 WSOP main event champion Greg Merson, or the guy who dominates poker headlines like no other, Phil Ivey. The player could also be someone who had great success on the Heartland Poker Tour that the mainstream media has never picked up on, or even someone that you'd be happy to have in your home game. The WSOP allows players from all walks of life to see if they have what it takes, and if we knew for certain who would win every event, part of the magic of the game would be taken away.

http://espn.go.com/poker/

 

[Khalessi]

MMA, UFC, and the like.

To quote a post BZ made on Infinity .. All MMA is .. is violence dressed up as sport.