See Also: Lies
Hot damn. It really pays off to have monikers to lean to for these surveys.
Also, I wrote this today for my thesis:
Anything for which there are sessions of building endurance, acceptance and strength, off-seasons and an aura of professionalism through the eyes of children can be considered a sport. I had trained for five years to get to this moment - my version of the marathon.
I smoked a pack of cigarettes in less than five hours and needed more, needed to prove I was the master of my low- to no-contact sport. My motivation wasn't to make myself vomit or form cancerous nodules inside my lungs, it was to burn off the night before. Inhale the smoke, let it gather up everything that happened and release through my nose in a dragon-plume of fire breath.