ESPN Radio Host Slams Competitive Gaming

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-CraZed- said:

Gaming is not a sport period. Can it be competitive like many sports are? Sure. But sports require physical exertion. And unless my sitting on my ass for hours at a time to partake in my most favorite hobby is now considered physical exertion, it definitely isn't a sport.

Oxford Dictionary - Sport: An activity involving physical exertion and skill in which an individual or team competes against another or others for entertainment.

Whether or not ESPN should show 'eSports" is debatable however because they do show non-sport activities like poker and pool etc. But as a sportscaster yeah I'd be offended at having to cover gaming as a sport.

Target shooting is a sport, and that requires less physical exertion than playing a video game. In fact the less you move in target shooting the better. And in some cases you spend the entire time lying on a mat. The general dictionary definitions for sport are really poor for encompassing all things that the vast majority of people do agree are sports, and they're even worse for things that are on the margins of what people agree are sports.

For every argument there is against pro-competition video games being sports there are counter arguments that can be found in events that are widely accepted as sports, including sports that have been Olympic events for decades.