Darts: Sport or pastime?

Smoke-filled rooms, pint mugs and overweight players are hardly the ingredients for a modern sporting cocktail. Try telling that to the hundred million fans who tune in to watch the kings of the oche.
With pictures of Andy Murray's newly toned torso splashed all over this weekends newspapers, there was surely no sharper contrast than with newly crowned BDO darts champion Martin 'Wolfie' Adams. And while none will question the legitimacy of tennis as a sport, debate still rages over whether the chucking of small bits of metal at cork should fall into the same category. Most dictionaries defines 'sport' as; 'an athletic activity requiring skill or physical prowess and often of a competitive nature, as racing, baseball, tennis, golf, bowling, wrestling, boxing, hunting, fishing, etc.'

Darts: Sport or pastime? - Sportingo