Life is a sport.

At the moment, one of the listings on the sports page of Google News is:

Oldest man dies at 113

CBC Montreal - 3 hours ago

SYRACUSE, NY - The world's oldest man, according to Guinness World Records, has died less than two weeks before he would have turned 114.

And this is on the sports page because ... ?



UPDATE: Several readers have emailed to say that the article has a line about the man being a Red Sox fan. One of the articles on Google's list under this heading does call the man a "noted Red Sox fan." I'm sorry, I don't like that answer. I think the answer is that we are all participating in a competition, refereed by Guinness, to try to outlive each other.