If Texas Hold' em and Nascar are suddenly being recognized as sports according to the media coverage devoted to them, then blogging should be the newest addition. Before people start attacking my comment, please let me justify. Blogging, and doing it successfully, require skill. No doubt about it. There is the occasional #### that puts up a title with the words consisting of sexual connotations just to get people's attention. In the long run, those fake bloggers are discovered and their posts disregarded. To make a successful post, and by successful I mean one that promotes thought and encourages discussion while appealing to the masses, the blogger must produce relevent, witty, interesting, sincere, and unique ideas. People that write blogs about how great Peyton Manning is or why Ron Artest is a bad guy, are simply stating the obvious and not producing any new material.

Blogging does have its physical demands as well. If Texas Hold'em, which physical demands include lifting a player's cards a half an inch to look at their respective hand, then I think that the physical task of typing a 800-1000 word blog in under a half hour, on a weekly to daily basis is a physical acheivement in of itself. The wrists start to ache, the fingers crack, and the eyes become blurry. Do not get me wrong, I am not equating blogging to running a marathon. I am merely stating that if one judges an activity as a sport based on physical merits, than compared to Texas Hold'em, blogging has greater physical demands.

If one judges an activity as a sport based on skill, practice, and teamwork, than blogging has to be considered a sport. Blogging, as I stated earlier, requires skill if it is to provoke thought and produce new ideas. Good blogging also requires practice. The more bloggs one writes, the better their blogs become. Also, blogging is a combination of skills developed and practiced in school as well as from watching Sportscenter. Finally, for a blogger to become fully evolved, teamwork is required.  By teamwork I mean constructive criticism from peers and exchanging of ideas. I learn and work with bloggers on a daily basis. Every comment that is posted on a blog provides a different prospective and adds to the blogs as a whole.

People of the sports universe, blogging is a sport. Whether you accept the fact now or in the future, blogging is slowing becoming more and more popular. I will not be satisfied with the media's coverage of blogging until there is a reality show based on blogging, a daily half hour show on ESPN, and jerseys for all of the world's bloggers that can be purchased at your local Foot Locker.