athletics

" Grew up with that in high school athletics, and now it's a word I would never use.

Which is good to support, you know, amateur athletics.

Really, it reminds me of fraternities/athletics and hazing.

Look at Penn State for a prime example of toxic "athletics are everything" college football culture.

In the area I grew up in, the amount parents spent pushing their kids to excel in athletics above anything else is stupid.

She took part in world championship on behalf of Ukraine and came to this trivia competition in national athletics team's suit.

The "athletics fee" at UF covers student athletic facilities - gyms, tennis courts, etcetera - rather than sports teams.

Unlike in athletics, academics isnt necessarily a zero sum game.

Its farce because the realities of top-level athletics today require an early and total commitment to one area of excellence.

As someone who works for a university, I can say that in some cases the athletics budget is completely separate from the educational side of things.

The results you get are a 99% graduation rate, average standardized testings scores in the 90th percentile or above, special education, tons of AP classes, and top flight athletics and fine arts programs.

"While it is certainly plausible that there is some big genetic influence on intelligence due to ethnicity, like there is in athletics, we have yet to find convincing evidence of it.

The governing body for college athletics generally prohibits significant payments to the athletes themselves, so all that income goes to coaches and other staff, as well as supporting businesses.

Shocking I know, but if we recognize athletics as an important key to youth development and not something that has to happen after "real school" than maybe we might be able to tackle this issue of kids being so overwhelmed and having to stay up late just to stay afloat.