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The concept of providing a title in the game has won impulse now that school athletes can receive payment. Now, Nike is joining some to make this 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 marrying the price of basketball, the positionless game, he says, can teach business thinking, and quick counterattacks can teach interpersonal communication. Hollander pushed for the Catholic Church to appoint a basketball saint (he did) and helped convince the United Nations to call for December. 21 World Basketball Day.
During the next year, in what he considers a small step on the road to athletics taken seriously at the Academy, Mr. Hollander plans to teach a course of university athletes, Olympic and professionals in which his reports play and practiced their game They will be components of the program.
“You can get a degree right now in higher education, in dance and art and music, drama,” Mr. Hollander said. “And I think those are totally valid degrees. They’re portals into the human condition.”
He added: “I don’t see how athletics is any different. How is it that this ancient cultural form, like those ancient cultural bureaucracy that I mentioned, are not inherently academically meritorious”?
Recently, concepts from educators like Mr. Hollander have discovered an audience, particularly influence: Nike sportswear, which pumps many millions of dollars into college sports thanks to its many sponsorship deals.
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