Sports

Sports are an organized activity. Many claim that professional sports are the top of the food chain. This is categorically false. The Olympics are the top of the food chain. The world championships are the next step down from the Olympics. Then, professional sports are just above collegiate sports. Collegiate sports are just, barely, above high school sports. High school sports are above youth sports. From a curricular perspective youth sports are all about teaching children to work within a team structure. At least this is the case in the United States. The rest is unimportant developmentally for this discussion.

If the rules are not the same performances cannot be compared, fairly.

For anything to be a sport it must meet each of the following qualifications: 

1.      It must have a competition

2.      It must have codified universal rules

3.      It must have a social comparison

4.      It must have an uncertain outcome

This is a sports science definition of sports and it works. Sports were invented to compare warriors. War is another way of comparing warriors. Death was the unfortunate outcome for many. Sports used to be to the death. Most would agree athletes make the best soldiers. Ancient Athenians, athletes, made a great decision to cultivate sports. Imagine the first loss experienced in sport resulting in your death.

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