strange bedfellows: two ordinary sports oddly combined

The March 2011 edition of Wired magazine has a short blurb that almost missed my attention, then "Wait, wha-- WHAT??"  The sport that you'd bet you'd never see has become a reality-- CHESSBOXING.  Seriously.  So these are the smart jocks.  These are the ones who take a break from beating each other's brains with a nice round of beating each other's brains.  Ah, relaxing, good times, good times...

Don't believe me?  Look here.

And then I HAD to see it to believe it.  

(well, I couldn't get any of these videos to load right now, maybe you can)

You know, the next sport I predict we'll see, based on this, is "Death by calculus," maybe called "calcu-hyper-lus."  (which will soon lead to the "calcu-hyper-MORE" series)  It'll be where math folks get together, remove all jewelry, strip down to tight-fitting clothing (perhaps that's what they were already wearing), stretch, limber up, face the opponent, square off, get into a low ready-for-anything stance... and then out-derive each other.  When your theoretical equations blow your opponent's mind, thus he/she dies, YOU WIN.  I'm not seeing a large pay-per-view audience, unless it's only shown in university campus math buildings, and you consider tuition to be what the audience pays to see this spectacle.  But heck, I'D pay to watch someone scribble so madly on a chalkboard that it results in cardiopulmonary resuscitation right behind them... wouldn't you?    ;-)