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Can you name the SI's 20 Top INDIVIDUAL Sports Rivalries?

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#1
Tennis
Tennis

#2
Baseball
Baseball

#3
Basketball
Basketball

#4
Football
Football

#5
Golf
Golf

#6
Boxing
Boxing

#7
Boxing
Boxing

#8
Tennis
Tennis

#9
Boxing
Boxing

#10
Nascar*
Nascar*

#11
Tennis
Tennis

#12
Boxing
Boxing

#13
Hockey
Hockey

#14
Chess*
Chess*

#15
Competitive Eating*
Competitive Eating*

#16
Tennis
Tennis

#17
Nascar*
Nascar*

#18
Basketball
Basketball

#19
Hockey
Hockey

#20
Horse Racing*
Horse Racing*

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	pzummo:	May 27th, 2010 at 17:59 GMT		23 points
	The editorial "not a sport" comment about Nascar and horse racing is absurd. I am not a fan of either, but that was unnecessary.

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	amorris525:	Jun 4th, 2010 at 04:30 GMT		2 points
	Why would you ever put that "not a sport" comment in. That is so rude. You receive 1 Sporcle globe for that comment.

	amorris525:	Jun 4th, 2010 at 04:32 GMT		6 points
	Sorry to double comment, but after looking at the source, I'm almost positive there is no ranking. They just gave 20 of the best individual rivalries. If I could rate again I would give you another one globe.

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	JFilly:	Jun 4th, 2010 at 05:11 GMT		9 points
	Thank you for acknowledging the not real sports. It's the truth people, deal with it.

	CorneliusTree:	Jun 4th, 2010 at 05:25 GMT		32 points
	Didn't Chris Evert have a rivalry with Jim Rome?

	The:	Jun 4th, 2010 at 05:57 GMT		17 points
	You call me Chris one more time...

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	PWT3:	Jun 4th, 2010 at 09:54 GMT		2 points
	Also, if pzummo's comment is implying that NASCAR and horse-racing are in fact sports, and not just that the inclusion of the asterisks is a poor choice, I would disagree vehemently with him. NASCAR is a sport - for cars. Horse-racing is a sport - for horses. But they're not sports for people. To borrow from Parcells (or was it Mike Leach?), "The cook is involved, but the chicken is committed." Well, in those, the jockey or driver is involved, but the horse or car is committed.

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	godpaul25:	Jun 4th, 2010 at 13:37 GMT		7 points
	Skill? Yes. It takes skill to make a wedding dress too. What's your point?

Jun 4th, 2010 at 13:44 GMT

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Playing video games takes skill, coordination, is ocmpetitive, and 100% of the performance is determined by the person behind the controller, which is more than NASCAR apparently. Is that a sport too in your eyes? C'mon people, stop defending something because it's on "Sportscenter". It isn't a sport.

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	ercwtzl:	Jun 4th, 2010 at 15:39 GMT		0 points
	This really depends how you define "sports". I think based on a standard dictionary definition that NASCAR and horse racing would both qualify. Honestly I don't really care, since I'm not a fan of either. I have to say I laughed when I saw the asterisk though. But seriously, what difference does it make? It's just a word.

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	Mortz:	Jun 4th, 2010 at 16:43 GMT		-1 points
	I have a Master of Sport Management and although there is actually no agreed firm definition of what sport really is, what I can say is that NASCAR would be classified as a sport nearly everywhere. The argument behind this is that there is some kind of physical skill or exertion (e.g endurance), some drivers have more skill than others whilst NASCAR also requires the driver to be reasonably fit. I'm more of a fan of F1 and it is one of the most physically demanding sports you can participate in, they need to be super fit. Another aspect is that sport has ongoing regular competition with a formal set of rules. This separates sport from many other activities such as kicking the ball around with your friends of playing a game of video games. Regardless of what you believe it is unnecessary and totally irrelevant for the quiz to mark some of the activities as not a sport.

	Giggity1:	Jun 4th, 2010 at 16:46 GMT		5 points
	A few of those don't really feel like rivalries. I'm not sure I consider two great players being compared to each other "rivals."

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	Scruffy:	Jun 4th, 2010 at 17:29 GMT		2 points
	sport–noun 1. an athletic activity requiring skill or physical prowess and often of a competitive nature, as racing, baseball, tennis, golf, bowling, wrestling, boxing, hunting, fishing, etc. First definition on dictionary.com, so yeah, racing is defined as a sport. Just because you have an opinion doesn't mean you have point it out at every opportunity, especially in a quiz. And if you think driving a 500 mile NASCAR race takes as much athleticism as playing a video game then you are just plain ignorant.

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Basketball
Basketball

	conroy:	Jun 4th, 2010 at 18:22 GMT		-2 points
	When you're making a turn on a race track at 200+ MPH it's impossible to breath/lift yourself off of your seat.

	Mortz:	Jun 4th, 2010 at 18:43 GMT		3 points
	godpaul25, you're not even reading what I've written, mate. Sit and read it and reflect on what it means or keep quiet. I even made it clear for you that I believe that video games is play and not sport so what are you complaining at? In my opinion there is a need of ongoing regular competition with formalised rules, this means that sport is institutionalised, i.e. there is governing body overseeing the competition and there is a set structure regarding competition format, place and time. Sport must also be based on physical prowess (key word physical) which further eliminates games like video games, the challenge in most video games is mental, not physical (it doesn't take much to press the x button). Competition, skill or endurance by itself is not enough, if that was the case a simple contest between two friends to see who could kick the ball the furthest could be classified as sport. The key is the combination of things. I can go deeper into detail if you want to, but this is a Sporcle comments section and I think I've already written more than I should in a place like this.

	danman23:	Jun 4th, 2010 at 18:48 GMT		1 point
	Nice straw man, godpaul... How do you define a sport then?

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	PWT3:	Jun 4th, 2010 at 19:36 GMT		-1 points
	"First definition on dictionary.com, so yeah, racing is defined as a sport." This is funny because it doesn't help your argument at all, it hurts it. The racing they're referring to is almost certainly running.

	PWT3:	Jun 4th, 2010 at 19:38 GMT		-1 points
	Defining a sport is more difficult than saying what's not a sport and why. NASCAR isn't a sport because the car does all the work. The driver does a lot of work? Yes, he does a lot of work to get the car to do its work. But ultimately the car has the last word, the car provides the energy, the speed - the race itself is of cars. It's a car's sport. Horse-racing is the same. Chess isn't a sport because there's no athleticism involved. It's a game. Same with video games (which are also not art, and cannot ever be art, because they are by definition games). And so on. These distinctions aren't necessarily important, but they're pretty reasonable and they do exist.

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	patchadams:	Jun 4th, 2010 at 20:44 GMT		5 points
	@godpaul27 you are an idiot. asserting that playing wii is more physically demanding than being a jockey in professional horse racing is one of the most naive and unsubstantiated claims I've every heard. have you ever ridden a horse? much less ridden one sprinting at up to 40 mph? jockeying requires extreme stamina, endurance, and upper body strength. These are attributes a wii player, who sits on his or her ass shaking a controller, does not require. I'll give you that a large part of a jockey's performance is determined by the individual horse's prior training and performance. However, to call horse riding a physically undemanding activity is ignorant.

	Jerry_Garcia:	Jun 4th, 2010 at 21:00 GMT		3 points
	There are a few here that I think shouldn't be near this list, but hey that's me. The hockey pair, for example. Howe and Richard are fine as they both are Original 6ers, but Lemieux and Gretzky? Really? They were just two fantastic players that happened to have overlapping careers. I don't even think they faced each other in the playoffs. They harldy saw one another AT ALL until Gretzky finished off his career in New York! Bogus. Orr and Clarke would have been better than that and I wouldn't have put them on here either. Meanwhile, there is no Jordan v Bird, Andretti v Foyt, etc.

	PWT3:	Jun 4th, 2010 at 21:04 GMT		-3 points
	I'd agree with Pat and the other posters who have argued that jockeys and race car drivers do have to be in good shape, and that it's physically demanding. I wouldn't argue otherwise. I just think for the prior reasons stated, they aren't sports. The 'physical exertion/ athleticism' criteria actually creates a lot of problems for some other 'sports'. Is bowling a sport? In my opinion it isn't, but many others would disagree. What about golf? I don't think it is, but many others would disagree.

	slicky:	Jun 4th, 2010 at 21:20 GMT		-4 points
	I'm giving this 5 globes for the "not a sport" comment. Anyone getting bent out of shape about it needs to get a life.

	vamsi:	Jun 4th, 2010 at 21:21 GMT		1 point
	i'm a video game advocate, but unless you're talking about a 6 hour nonstop wii match, there's no physical endurance required. you don't see nascar drivers that are out of shape, nor jockeys. why didn't golf get an asterisk? yeah, also, si photo lists are not generally in order, including this one.

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