Games

 Games. Tournaments. Playoffs. Finals. March Madness. Games. Pres-season. Playoffs. Super Bowl.

Games. All-Star Game. Playoffs. World Series. Games. League Championships. World Cup. Men and women.
All the other sports. All the high school fields and gyms.
Coaches of major sports make bigger salaries than university presidents. High profile college players can now make more money in a year than high profile professors do. Money makes common sense and fairness make no sense at all. And sports are extra-curricular.
So why don’t we just give in and make sports the core of high school and college education. Make academics extra-curricular, maybe just club activities. Then there’ll be lots of time for glorification of athletes, games during school hours, no worrisome testing, on-site campus casinos. This will give students needed relief from the disciplined effort and stress of learning.
With a little imagination, all academics can be integrated into sports programming—math, language arts, drama, biology and more.