Time and time again we find that sports is better when we find ways so that we all can play.
A Sweet 16 college basketball game between Stanford and North Carolina State in the women’s NCAA Tournament against Stanford on March 29, 2024, in Portland, Ore.National Collegiate Athletic Association is under pressure to draft an impossible piece of policy: a stance on transgender athletes that makes progressives and conservatives happy.
I hope that the NCAA’s decision-makers are guided by better intentions and science than lawmakers were. And they will be if they first answer one fundamental question: Why do we play?Few have spent as much time trying to answer that as psychiatrist and author Stuart Brown, founder of the National Institute for Play. He has spent four decades interviewing thousands about their childhoods, gathering data that he says add up to the same conclusion: “Play is more than just fun.
Sounds simple enough. It should apply to sports. The complication in college athletics is that economics — not just politics — has added layers of purpose that have overtaken the intrinsic value of playing a sport. This reaches beyond the business world and its billions of dollars in television deals, merchandise, video games, legalized online gambling and of course compensation.
Remember when Republicans warned that the military was going to collapse if Democrats repealed “don’t ask, don’t tell”? Or that society would collapse with marriage equality? And now we’re being told that women’s sports will disappear if transgender athletes aren’t banned.
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