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Sports are part of every culture past and present, but each culture has its own definition of sports. The most useful definitions are those that clarify the relationship of sports to play, games, and contests. “Play,” wrote the German theorist Carl Diem, “is purposeless activity, for its own sake, the opposite of work.” Humans work because they have to; they play because they want to. Recalcitrant children compelled by their parents or teachers to compete in a game of football are not really engaged in a sport. Neither are professional athletes if their only motivation is their paycheck. BMX Racing | Olympic Qualifier | World Cup Rounds 7&8 | Bogotá September 22, 2022 • Police said that a University of Utah student threatened to detonate a nuclear reactor if the school's football team failed to win a game last Saturday. September 24, 2022 • Playing the final days of his last big league season, the 42-year-old Pujols joined Barry Bonds , Hank Aaron and Babe Ruth in one of b