Because, here in the US, it clearly has little to do with "sport" anymore...

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When does it 'become time' to change the word *we use to describe something (quite evident) with a new, appropriate, more accrurate and functionally descriptive term?

Is it only a matter of how many and how often people use it, as the OED may suggest?

...Or would it "cheapen" the whole *thing to change the words now? <evil-grin>

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When are we gonna stop calling it "The World Series"?

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When are we gonna stop calling it "The World Series"?

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When they stop playing it. Or them.

Probably at the same time as they stop calling it the Miss Universe pageant.

change the word *we use to describe something (quite evident) with a new, appropriate, more accrurate and functionally descriptive term

Or either that or change the definition of the first word to match the change in the referrent.

<<Miss Universe>>

lol!