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It is a common misapprehension to try and distinguish activity as sport or not based on the degree of human athleticism or physicality required. This confusion leads inevitably to forced arguments from jocks and bullies about the dubious virility of soccer players or the prohibitions on crying in baseball in order to make the case for or against any particular activity. What is Sport?, however, recognizes that our intuition about sport turns on one very important test about the purpose of the activity rather than the physicalness or testosterone involved. John Forbes Nash Jr., or his adapted-screenplay version, once said, ""Find a truly original idea. It is the only way I will ever distinguish myself. It is the only way I will ever matter."" From the beautiful mind of D. Josev Brewer comes this truly original idea, What is Sport? He has accomplished what some of the greatest thinkers in sports media, like Terry Bradshaw and Lou Ferrigno, could not. He has defined sport.

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I genuinely like and abide by your theory. - Walt Deptula, WCCP host of Road Rage the Nation's Most Informative Sports Talk Show I literally could not bring myself to read it. - Bradford William Davis, freelance sportswriter who refused to allow his title or employer to be identified Everything he said in there . . . I think the opposite. - Dodd Davis, bitter lawyer Burn the book. - A Clemson University fan Brewer is one of the great, public psuedo-intellectuals of our time. - D. Josev Brewer

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Joe Brewer is a federal litigator with years' practice in making up and then applying fake definitions and legal tests. He also is a former Furman University baseball player, where he participated in essentially no games. This combined and unprecedented lack of experience in law and athletics, at the highest levels, uniquely qualifies him to tell everyone else that what they do isn't sport.

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