| Wabash kid is trollin hard |
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http://i1070.photobucket.com/albums/u483/runforever15/RHep.png This is absurd, how can he say this? thoughts? |
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I consider it more of an activity than a "sport." |
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The argument of "running isn't a sport because you run while doing other things in other sports" is stupid. Using that argument, baseball isn't a sport because it involves swinging an object to hit a ball but tennis players have to swing and hit a ball while running. Pitching in baseball isn't a sport because NFL quarterbacks have to make throws while running. Lacrosse isn't a sport because hockey players score goals while on ice skates. Hockey isn't a sport because polo players score goals while riding on horses. |
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This^. I would also add that none of the sports he mentions that involve "running" require you to be in anywhere near the kind of aerobic shape needed for cross country, just as cross country doesn't require the skills needed for those sports. I also find it funny that he chose to focus on cross country and ignored track & field. Hell, his idiotic argument may have been easier to make about field events. I mean high jump? Basketball players jump all the time, so it's not a sport. |
| Concerned Citizen |
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How has this article by some random toolbox in a student newspaper from a tiny little D3 school in Indiana generated ~4 thread on LRC? Are some of our trolls Wabash boys? |
| Dudas McGrudas |
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I agree it isn't a sport..... Not enough leg speed velocity needed. |
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But think about the rate of change of femoral displacement needed to be great at XC, not to mention the pelvic forwarditude fastness index that really good runners achieve. |
| Professor Gerald Lambeau |
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He is right. XC isn't a sport b/c it screws with pledge class responsibilities like eating butterdogs and bonging fifths of absolute. |