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The concept of offering a game in the game has now grown that university athletes can be paid. Nike now, Nike joins some academics for a reality.
By Tania Ganguli
For decades, an organization of small but passionate has presented a possible balm for the heavy appointments between athletics and schooling in primary universities: permits of academics specialize in sport.
One such educator is David Hollander, a clinical professor at New York University’s School of Professional Studies. He spent years championing basketball’s high course, the game without position, he says, can teach business thinking, and quick breaks can teach interpersonal communication. Hollander lobbied for the Catholic Church to call a patron saint of basketball (he did) and helped convince the United Nations to claim World Basketball Day on Dec. 21.
Within the next year, in what he sees as a small step in the road toward athletics being taken seriously in the academy, Mr. Hollander is planning to teach a course for varsity, Olympic and professional athletes in which their experiences playing and practicing their sport will be part of the curriculum.
“You can get a title at this time in higher education, dance and art and music, drama,” said Hollander. “And I think they are valid titles. These are portals in the human condition. “
He added: “I don’t see how athletics is any different. How this old cultural form, like those old cultural bureaucracies that I mentioned, are not inherently academically worthy. “
Recently, the concepts of educators such as Mr. Hollander have discovered an influential audience: Sports Wear Corporate Nike, which pumps many millions of dollars in school sports through their many sponsorship agreements.
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