What qualifies
something to be a sport? An activity involving physical exertion and skill in
which an individual or team competes against or other for entertainment. So
something involving a ball rules and competitiveness, refs. Sports that are
identified as “sports” but shouldn’t be a sport is NASCAR, hot dog, eating
contest etc…… There could be a 24 hour agreement on what sports should be
identified as a sports and what shouldn’t be a sport because everyone has their
own opinions and imputes. But for something to be a sport like I said in the
first sentence it has to be an activity involving physical exertion and skill
in which an individual or team competes against or other for entertainment I
could say Poker is not a sport because it’s not entertaining but the definition
of a sport technically it is a sport because that’s their talent and they
compete against each other to win money. It has to be somewhat entertaining and
enjoyable to watch in my opinion to be a sport and have a lot of
competitiveness or else it isn’t fun to watch because no one is into it.
Football, Basketball,
Baseball, Soccer, Hockey are in my opinion the main sports in our country and
are the most entertaining to watch and have the most competitiveness between
the two teams that are going against each other. The NFL is the most
entertaining because of the fast pace and hitting involved and you never know
what’s going to happen the next play, there’s a lot of suspense involved
because a big play can happen any moment. Hockey, Baseball, Basketball are the
same thing anything can happen and are very fun to watch and should actually be
called a sport unlike other event’s like nothing hot dog eating contest,
NASCAR, Poker, Ping Pong.
Sport’s that should
not be considered a sport are Golf, curling, pole vault and roller blading
should not be considered a sport just because the way the game is played. For
it to be considered a sport and be somewhat interesting it needs to have
athletic ability, strength, and endurance, strategy, competition and somewhat
of defense for it to be qualified as a sport. In those sports that I named that
don’t qualify to be a sport none of those sports require defense, athletic
ability strategy and competition which is required in all sports because you’re
competing against another person or team. Golf should definitely be a sport
just because you’re competing and it requires strength and somewhat of athletic
ability you for sure cannot be fat and have no clue what you’re doing because
it takes some strength to hit a golf ball far and swing it fast. It takes
talent to play football, baseball, hockey, basketball and I guess soccer but
not as much talent for the three other main sports. It’s a proven fact that one
of the hardest things to do is hit a 90 mph fastball just because you have such
little time to react and make an adjustment if it’s off speed or a fastball.
But also skating is also a hard thing to get down and football takes a lot of
strength and conditioning to be good and need to have good hands and athletic
ability same goes for basketball.
Finally I have made
my argument on what qualifies something to be a sport and what should be a sport
in the first couple paragraphs. The Sports I named that should not be a sport
are Golf, Curling, pole vault and roller blading that shouldn’t be a sport. And
the sports that are real and completive and the whole world loves are football,
baseball, basketball, and hockey take real talent and athletic ability to be
able to play and compete. Last “sport” that shouldn’t be a sport and is
televised on espn is World series of poker which should never be on TV because
all it shows is people dealing tokens and guys with sunglasses so that’s another
one that shouldn’t be a sport. The only main sports on TV that people enjoy to
watch and would pay money to go watch are Football, basketball, baseball,
hockey that everyone enjoys.