| What Is Sport?: The Enthusiast's Technical Guide to the Characterization of Human Performance as Sport Contributor(s): Brewer, D. Josev (Author) |
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ISBN: 1733800905 ISBN-13: 9781733800907 Publisher: Daniel Josev Brewer OUR PRICE: $18.99 Product Type: Hardcover Published: June 2019 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Sports & Recreation | Reference - Sports & Recreation | Sociology Of Sports |
| Physical Information: 0.5" H x 5" W x 7.99" (0.69 lbs) 198 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. 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. |
Contributor Bio(s): Brewer, D. Josev: - 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. |