how some view sports

Certain people just don't like sports. Especially certain people at college. It's funny how deep the divide can be between athletics, athletes and professors. I will run into so many people at college that could care less about sports. Most often they are philosophers, engineers and science majors. Usually communication and business majors care about sports. I don't mean to stereotype.

There are a lot of professors that despise sports. They wish sports never existed. They see them as a waste of time and a distraction from progress. These professors don't care about a big game, and hate to so much time, energy and money is given to athletics. As a matter of fact they mistakenly think that everything in a college campus is done for athletics. It's only natural for them to think like that. Their life experiences have taught them that studying, reading, and testing etc. is what gets you ahead in life. They view sports as a diversion from those things.

Many other people love sports. They view it as a social gathering. They see it as an opportunity to have school pride. They view it as a positive diversion from life's problems. They also see the good in sports. They see how it builds character and enriches the education and lives of so many. I find that business, kinesiology (obviously) and communication/journalism professors are some of the best when it comes to supporting teams and working around the schedules of athletics.

I also have found the history of sports to be fascinating. I real look back into time to see how sports interacted with other societies.

Sports have been viewed as both positive and negative diversions before.

Sports have been used to simulate warfare and keep soldiers in shape. They have been used to build character and re-enforce class and gender differences. Tennis, Horseracing Golf, Croquet for example are games that the wealthy have played for awhile. We all know that sports have not had racial and gender equality before.

It's interesting that the Puritans hated sports. It's interesting that English kings would promote sports and tell their citizens and the Puritans that it is good to play sports.

It's interesting to read about how popular sports seem to represent the values that are held in a society. For example football became popular during the Cold War because the game represented, strength, power confrontation and strategy. You can also see the personality of societies based on how they play soccer across the world.