This is what this year's Evolution tournament's main game lineup looks like
(Evolution is the biggest fighting game tournament event in America held in Las Vegas sometime during the summer; it used to be held in Southern California for mainly SF games, but now it's gone a bit more encompassing and sponsorship has been added)

Main site: http://www.evo2k.com

The main 8 games:
Street Fighter 3: 3rd Strike
Marvel vs Capcom 2
Capcom vs SNK 2
Super Street Fighter 2 Turbo
Guilty Gear XX Slash
Super Smash Brothers Melee
Tekken 5: Dark Resurrection
Virtua Fighter 5

I really like this lineup this year. The return of Virtua Fighter for DOA4, ditching Tekken 5 for Dark Resurrection and ST for Hyper Street Fighter 2 were all really good switches. The addition of Smash to the lineup i think is also good. I might even contemplate buying the entire DVD set that comes out after this year.

Only way they could make this lineup better is to add Street Fighter Alpha 3. But that's wishful thinking. They already have 3 of my favorite fighting games in the lineup(VF5, CvS2, ST; I like Tk5DR, but Tekken Tag is better).

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Sometimes I think I'm like the professor in Simpsons; there was that one episode where he was teaching a class and rolling back and forth that toddler toy which sprinkles balls all over the place. He was then getting technical with the physics of why it works(ya'see, the oscillation and the ma'ouiving produces the...) and one girl asks him if she can play with it. His response is:

"I'm sorry I can't let you play with it; you wouldn't get as many degrees of enjoyment out of it as I do."

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I got this trolling the SRK.com forums, and one guy essentially said this about games being called a sport.

FYI, if you think about it, the whole reason people want to label THEIR games that they play competitively as a sport(poker, etc), is because they want respect for it. It is; it's the truth. When you think of someone being a professional sports player, you conjure up images of men sweating through hard physical labour in order to win games and be crowned a champion. Without that label, you're left with a bunch of lazy, tired bums earning money through a nerdy medium.

That's why(IMO) you have a lot of things being labelled sports that shouldn't be labelled as such in the first place.

To close on this subject, 2 cents to think about:
1) almost any type of game can be played competitively and takes skill to do. Any time you bring your mindset into direct conflict with another person's mindset, you have to be able to disguise your gameplan while trying to decipher your opponent's. That always takes skill. Not calling something a sport does not imply that it's skillness; that's something the dim-witted joe doesn't seem to get nor the enthusiast championing the game he plays. Chess isn't called a sport. Does that mean it's skill-less?
2) But there's a difference(actually there's many, but this is just one) between an actual sport like basketball and something like poker. In poker, your right wrist can be in a cast, your left leg can be amputated, and you could still play. As long as your brain(and mouth, to bluff and raise, etc) was functional, you'd be alright. And maybe one of your arms to hold the cards, etc. But saw off the left leg of a basketball player, and he's benched. Injure a swimmer's left arm? Can't swim the 100m freestyle no more. Club the leg of THAT FEMALE FIGURE SKATER? Done.