Is there too much professional sports?

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41. doesn't that mean that many fine young minds

are frittering, your young people are frittering away their noon time, supper time, chore time too, getting balls in the pocket. Never mind getting dandylions pulled or the screen door patched or the beefstake pounded. Never mind pumping any water, till your parents are caught with a cistern empty on a Saturday night, and that's TROUBLE.

But truthfully, are there not better things to do with one's time, than to work on one's jump shot? Or learning how to break a full court press?

It is one thing to play a game to relieve stress and get a little exercise. It is another thing to obsess about it. The glorification of sports seems to lack balance.

And unfortunately, good minds would be better served by going in to sports. Take me and Bill Self and I. Bill is about my age. He studied sports. I studied math. I scored 800 on the quantitative GRE, so I am supposedly pretty good at math, just like Bill is pretty good at coaching, having won a number of Big 12 titles. He is pretty famous and makes $5,000,000 a year or so. I am obscure and make $33,000 a year working as a janitor. Apparently wasted my time studying math and getting two degrees.