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echo: sports
to: HOWARD BRAZEE
from: DAVE NEUMAN
date: 1997-12-22 17:54:00
subject: Men And Women

->->        Would you consider chess a sport? My brother thinks it is
->->sport but I disagree with him.
->
->DN>If a computer can beat the world's best at it, it's not a sport :
->
->DN>Chess is a game.
->
->I disagree with your logic.  Machines can beat the best runner in a
->race, does that mean racing is not sport?
Nothing wrong with my logic.  Machines do not equal computers.
->Let me pick a competition which has been part of the Modern
->Olympics from the beginning - why is (or is not) shooting a sport?
->What qualities does a competition have to have to be a sport?
You won't see me stick my neck out for archery/skeet shooting..
Call them whatever you like.
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