No, i contend Gash, that you're misguided in your belief that sport has no place in school.

Sport increases physical fitness, which has been scientifically proven to increase attention spans and ability to learn and understand concepts.

Sport teaches teamwork and commitment to a cause, something which is decidedly lacking in todays society and yet remains a key and influential factor in any job interview.

Sport allows you to meet new people and make new friends based on both competition and love of the game.

And it would also seem that sport also provides something to be targetted by those not good enough who, instead of working and trying to make the team (if they so wish), simply want to @#%$ and cuss out those who can.

Have a nice time bitching Gash, it appears its all you are willing to do in this matter.

I played less for the sport itself and more for the fact that it kept me in shape, even though, at the time, the particular team I played for had 3 hour practice sessions in 95 degree heat with only 1!!! Water Break. I lost some thirty pounds in one season alone. Those were some good times for me.
Of course, as soon as I quit football, I became a computer nerd, and gained back all my weight. Now I've cut back on how much I eat, and am finally getting decent excercise. I've relost my thirty pounds. I'm telling ya, American Weight Loss is like the American Stock Market. Up and Down, Up and Down.

*seriously thinks that schools need to stop funneling so much money into their sports departments and begin turning their attention towards the Fine Arts Department.*

Ack. Gag.

And actually Gash, just so we're clear, no, neither of my courses teach reading comprehension.

Sport increases physical fitness, which has been scientifically proven to increase attention spans and ability to learn and understand concepts.

Right. That would explain why so many jocks are so incredibly stupid.

Sport teaches teamwork and commitment to a cause, something which is decidedly lacking in todays society and yet remains a key and influential factor in any job interview.

No, kissing ass remains a key factor in any job interview.

Sports doesn’t teach you anything that can be applied to the real world. You can’t take what you learn on a football field and apply it to a corporation; there’s just no correlation between the two. If what you’re saying were true, most high school jocks would go on to be high-ranking corporate managers by value of their having played football alone. HINT: They don’t.

And it would also seem that sport also provides something to be targetted by those not good enough who, instead of working and trying to make the team (if they so wish), simply want to @#%$ and cuss out those who can.

Oh, you got me, Lupercus. I tried out for so many teams in high school, and time and time again was refused… that’s the root of my animus, my troubled childhood… oh, the tears…

Give me a break. What is it with you people and your unshakable belief that you have achieved greatness by being on your high school football team? Why is that belief matched only by your certainty that everyone else wishes they could be on “THE TEAM, HOOT HOOT” as well?

Have a nice time bitching Gash, it appears its all you are willing to do in this matter.

Wait, wait, I’m sorry, you came into a thread I started and took an opposing viewpoint backed up by a few threadbare, poorly-composed and ill-conceived points, and I’m the one bitching. Interesting. I guess that’s some more jock intelligence.

Sprint soccer. :)

I like cake.

Gash, see the problem with your viewpoints is that you are taking the radical end of the spectrum in sports. You target the more extreme cases, which in this debate are the jocks. I could use the same method to point out faults in religion. Such as terrorists who take the religion too far. But I'm not dumb enough to make the conclusion that-that religion is wrong because some odd number of people take it to the extreme.

This is what sports has personally taught me.

More confidence, selfesteem, team work, organization of my time, and I'm more "socially active." I could go on.

If you honestly believe none of these help you succeed in life, wether it be a sport life or a corporate life, then you are mistaken.

There are smart people who play sports.

There are smart people who don't play sports.

There are dumb people who play sports.

There are dumb people who don't play sports.

No matter whether or not there are school sponsored sports there will be dumb people and smart people.

Even if schools didn't sponsor sports there would also be idiots making millions in professional sports.

All that school-sponsored sports does that is bad is it allows people to get diplomas(assuming they pass). If they're dumb they still won't have a great mark so it won't be the equivelant of somebody who didn't do sports.

If you're saying that I'm wasting my time playing sports when I could be working on school then really I don't think your argument has any point. People play sports because they're fun. Your ranting won't make it not fun.