It’s the Groundhog Day of arguments about sports . Some guy in a Steelers jersey is getting red-faced about how Formula One isn’t a real sport because “the car does all the work,” while his buddy, who bowls league every Thursday, is trying to explain that rolling a sixteen-pound ball with precision down sixty feet of oiled wood is absolutely athletics. The guy nursing his third Iron City chimes in that if you can do it while eating nachos, it’s not a sport. The bartender, who played Division III lacrosse at Washington & Jefferson College, just shakes his head and changes the channel from ESPN8 showing cornhole to something everyone can agree on: football highlights. But are we talking the explosive North American version played by sumo-sized linemen or the graceful, stamina-centered

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