John Fernandez wrote:

Subject: Chess in the News -- serious post
From: "The Masked Bishop"
Date: 8/28/2003 10:13 AM Eastern Daylight Time
Message-id: m

So stop your freaking whining. Our sport is gonna be on TV for 17 1/2
hours.

It's not a sport, Tiger. It's a GAME. Is billiards a sport? Is poker?

IOC says it's a sport. That's good enough for me.

They were *paid* to say that! ;-)