I don't want to see women's athletics get the same degree of support as men's [View all]

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I'd much rather see men's sports get all the time and attention and money that women's sports do now.

Maybe even less for both. Sports is way overrated in our society.

Obviously lots of people care a whole lot more about athletic competition as entertainment that I do. And that's their right, of course. But it still seems a strange value system to me, especially when you consider how much some athletes get paid for what they do, compared to doctors and teachers and many people of great intellectual achievement -- stuff which is more important, but I suppose less entertaining to watch.

Where this particularly bothers me is college sports. College should be about education primarily. With a few exceptions, most colleges LOSE money on sports, meaning money that could be spent on education is being pissed away. Sports is probably raising tuition costs for people who are there to learn, not to toss a ball around or run up and down a field.

High school sports certainly teaches all the wrong lessons about what's important in education. Win the football championship, get a parade. Win at debate or chess, get a pizza party maybe.