"Any competition pitting people with skills that "ordinary" people don't have where there is a clearcut winner and loser IS a sport."
I don't even think I'm nitpicking here, when I bring up, say.... Scrabble Tournaments? (yes ordinary people can play scrabble, but not at the X-teme (tm) difficulty levels of the CrAzY tournaments, just as anybody (or so the DMV says) can drive a car, just not at ridiculous speeds.) No doubt there's some competition going on, but a sport? hardly. Somebody bless america
we need it