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Does poker qualify as a sport?

By Jay Lovinger
Page 2

Friday, June 11, 2004

Is poker a sport? Before I attempt to answer that question, here's another one: What difference does it make? A couple of times in the past few weeks, Tony Kornheiser of "Pardon The Interruption" has questioned whether the current poker boom will have legs. Kornheiser obviously believes it will not, based on the notion that people who watch poker on TV cannot expect to see any spectacular physical feats and so will necessarily become bored and stop watching. In other words, in Kornheiser's op ...

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