Learn English – the meaning of “old sport”

Oishi-san: @Kosmonaut's, @SLaks', and @yorkensei's answers are all correct, but I think see where you are getting confused.

To "sport" something is to have it visible, or "show it off". Really, all it means in this context is that the new iPad has a camera and wants you to be impressed with that.

If you were sporting a new wristwatch, you would be wearing it in a way that implies you are proud of it. You would be hoping others would look and point and be impressed. In Japanese you would hope people were saying: あれ見て！すごいだよ！

• Definition of sport:

  1. Physical activity that is governed by a set of rules or customs and often engaged in competitively.
  2. A particular form of this activity.
  3. An activity involving physical exertion and skill that is governed by a set of rules or customs and often undertaken competitively.
  4. An active pastime; recreation.

• Definition of game:

  1. An activity providing entertainment or amusement; a pastime: party games; word games.
  2. 
     
     • A competitive activity or sport in which players contend with each other according to a set of rules: the game of basketball; the game of gin rummy.
     • A single instance of such an activity: We lost the first game.
     • GAMES: An organized athletic program or contest: track-and-field games; took part in the winter games. [like the Olympics]
     • A period of competition or challenge: It was too late in the game to change the schedule of the project.
  3. 
     
     • The total number of points required to win a game: One hundred points is game in bridge.
     • The score accumulated at any given time in a game: The game is now 14 to 12.
  4. The equipment needed for playing certain games: packed the children's games in the car.
  5. A particular style or manner of playing a game: improved my tennis game with practice.

  (There are more meanings to "game" but they are not relevant)

There is an overlap between games and sports. Generally, sports require some sort of physical effort of specialised skill while games are more organised affairs with rules.

The word game has several meanings. You can, for example, play a game of sports, but you can't sport a game. A good example would be if you think of the Olympics. The Olympics are referred to as a the Olympic Games yet the game is a competition to collect as many medals as possible by partaking in specific sports.

Another example is baseball. Baseball is a sport but the Baseball World Series is a game in which teams play the sport of baseball while their overall scores between games are tracked for a position on a leaderboard (the game).