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"Cycling is not a sport"
I don't want to start the NASCAR debate again. I will say that it must take a
lot of physical effort to control a 1200 pound thoroughbred racing at near-full to full speed. Hiding in the woods like a militia member and shooting at a duck with a high-powered scope requires no physical effort and barely any skills. Bring back rocks and spears to hunting. I say that if your hands are good enough for bears, that are good enough for human fishermen. Dan Alex Rodriguez wrote: In article , says... Personally I am offended when hunters and fisherman are referred to as "sportsman". And what kind of athletic ability is required in auto-racing, horse racing, or chopping through a log with a chain saw? Auto racing requires a lot of physical effort as well as excellent hand eye coordination. Hunters and fisherman require a different set of skills. ----------------- Alex __O _-\,_ (_)/ (_) |
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"Cycling is not a sport"
"Daniel S. Lieb" wrote in message ... I don't want to start the NASCAR debate again. I will say that it must take a lot of physical effort to control a 1200 pound thoroughbred racing at near-full to full speed. Yeah, they must have some awesome workouts during the winter to keep the foot in shape to press down on the accelerator. M. |
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"Cycling is not a sport"
Well, mowing the lawn (except for a riding mower) in a hot summer's day is a
*workout* but when competetive grass cutting comes on espn 16, i'm getting rid of cable. Dan Patrick O'Grady wrote: In article , says... Personally I am offended when hunters and fisherman are referred to as "sportsman". And what kind of athletic ability is required in auto-racing, horse racing, or chopping through a log with a chain saw? Ever tried cutting a winter's worth of wood with a chain saw, loading it into the truck, unloading it back at the house and stacking it? It may not make you a "sportsman," but it qualifies as "athletic," according to Webster. So does proper hunting, which I define as stalking one's prey through the high country as opposed to jacklighting a deer from an F-150 parked on the side of the road. Cheers, Patrick O'Grady Mad Dog Media |
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"Cycling is not a sport"
If it has balls, it's a sport. I assume this is why
Cycle Sport and ProCycling only cover men's cycling. "Peter L" wrote in message m... (Mike Krueger) wrote in message ... And what kind of athletic ability is required in auto-racing, horse racing, or chopping through a log with a chain saw? I think we just need separate words to describe people who actually expend energy when they compete and those who just sit on their asses. I am no fan of auto racing, but I do think that maintaining utter concentration while encased in a hot Nomex suit and full face helmet while steering a race car at 200mph for 3 hrs straight requires some athletic skill and endurance. I wouldn't describe it as just sitting on one's ass. However, standing in a field for three hrs chewing tobacco, spitting, and scratching my nuts while waiting for someone to maybe hit a baseball in my direction, picking it up, and throwing it to someone else does not necessarily qualify me as a great athelete, does it? Having a baseball thrown at you at 90 mph, does that qualify? |
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"Cycling is not a sport"
Isn't this guy just pulling what the Mercury News columnist did last
year? It generated a TON of email to the editor, which I think is the whole point of the article. Pretty cheap trick if you ask me. I'd write to the advertising entities with your complaints, as publishers pay attention to issues affecting revenue. Maureen "Marty" wrote in message ... "TbosS" wrote in message ... So says SF Gate columnist: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/articl...22/fool227.DTL I sure hope this isn't the "all-American" opinion. Else all hope is lost (for Americans that is ;-)). Certainly not an "all-American" opinion, but definitely a "many-American male sports enthusiast" opinion. Before Lance Armstrong, I'd say it was a "90%-American male sports enthusiast" opinion. LA has done a lot of good for the sport in America. There will always be guys like this no-talent ass-clown "Betting Fool" that we'll have to deal with. Do other countries have to deal with guys like this? I would imagine so, but do they get to write and publish garbage like this in a what appears to be a reputable newspaper? Man, I'd love to see someone slam Tiger Woods and golf like this guy has slammed LA and bicycle racing. |
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"Cycling is not a sport"
Patrick O'Grady wrote in message ... In article , says... Personally I am offended when hunters and fisherman are referred to as "sportsman". And what kind of athletic ability is required in auto-racing, horse racing, or chopping through a log with a chain saw? Ever tried cutting a winter's worth of wood with a chain saw, loading it into the truck, unloading it back at the house and stacking it? You must be in the target audience for some of the ads on the OLN coverage--the one promoting the motorized cart for carrying logs would be just the thing. |
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"Cycling is not a sport"
In article ,
"Edward Waffle" wrote: Patrick O'Grady wrote in message ... In article , says... Personally I am offended when hunters and fisherman are referred to as "sportsman". And what kind of athletic ability is required in auto-racing, horse racing, or chopping through a log with a chain saw? Ever tried cutting a winter's worth of wood with a chain saw, loading it into the truck, unloading it back at the house and stacking it? You must be in the target audience for some of the ads on the OLN coverage--the one promoting the motorized cart for carrying logs would be just the thing. Naw, That's what '83 Toyota longbeds are for, when they're not full of cyclo-cross bikes. Motorized carts are for golf-playing sissies, porkers snuffling for truffles in the candy aisle at Wal-Mart and yuppie nitwits who think manual labor is the name of their gardener. Cheers, Patrick O'Grady Mad Dog Media |
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"Cycling is not a sport"
Daniel S. Lieb wrote:
Well, mowing the lawn (except for a riding mower) in a hot summer's day is a *workout* but when competetive grass cutting comes on espn 16, i'm getting rid Well, lawnmower racing _is_ a sport, http://www.geocities.com/motorcity/d...7/group980.jpg And how about the Monster Garage mower thing, where they modified a Mustang into a mower that could mow at 60 mph? Didier -- Didier A Depireux 685 W.Baltimore Str http://neurobiology.umaryland.edu/depireux.htm Anatomy and Neurobiology Phone: 410-706-1272 (off) University of Maryland -1273 (lab) Baltimore MD 21201 USA Fax: 1-410-706-2512 |
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