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The concept of offering a title in the game has grown now that college athletes can afford it. Nike now, Nike is teaming up with some academics for a reality.
By Tania Ganguli
For decades, a small but passionate group of academics has offered a potential balm for the fraught relationship between athletics and education at major universities: Allow students to major in sports.
One of those educators is David Hollander, clinical professor at the School of Professional Studies at the University of New York. He has been getting married with the basketball price, the game without a position, he says, can teach business thinking, and rapid breaks can teach interpersonal communication. Hollander tension for the Catholic Church to designate a Holy Basketball (he did) and helped convince the United Nations to claim Basketball Day on December 21.
Over the next year, in what he considers a small step on the path to athletics taken seriously at the Academy, Mr. Hollander plans to teach a course of collegiate, Olympian, and professional athletes in which their report play and practiced their game will be components of the program.
“You can get a title at this time in higher education, in dance and art and music, drama,” MR. Hollander. And I think those are completely valid titles. They are portals in the human condition. “
He added: “I do not see how athletics is different. How this ancient cultural form, like those ancient cultural bureaucracy that I mentioned, are not inherently academically meritorious”?
Recently, the concepts of educators like Mr. Hollander have discovered an influential audience: Sports Wear Corporate Nike, which pumps many millions of dollars into school sports through its many sponsorship deals.
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