Professional sports: boon or bust?

....Item number two is a benefit for FIRST, the robotics competition Kamen started in 1992. This is even more important because you get what you celebrate in a free market and America builds monuments to the things it values and unfortunately most of those monuments are giant sports arenas, which don't contribute anything to the future. Why waste so much time on bounce-bounce-throw when FIRST can turn aimless kids into the engineers of the future?

So he had to form an organization that would change the culture of the entire country and make all the kids in America understand that science and engineering really are cool and fun and if they don't study hard, they're going to end up dumb. He had to make the whole country see what he saw -- that if some foreign power came into this country to pervert our kids from doing the things that sustain our quality of life the way sports does, we would find them and prove that they were treasonously undermining our way of life and kill them......(emphaisi mine)

Headlines' Career Advice

Can headlines from Friday's paper be used in a teaching moment?

Front page: "CEOs plead, but senators skeptical."

Metro: "With no snow, resort workers don't get paid."

Business: "PERS fund tumbles with the economy."

Sports: "UO's Kellly to get $7 million."

The lesson: Mamas, make sure your babies grow up to be offensive coordinators.