Sports- Craziness

Daniel Kleyn’s October article entitled “Sports-Craziness” is somewhat upsetting to me. While the article brings out many examples of abuses and extremes, I’m afraid that the author fails to adequately point out the impor­tance and virtue of sports in the life of a Christian young person. Various documented studies show the immediate benefits of sports participation for youth in terms of grades, drop-out rates, discipline problems, physical fit­ness, etc. Sports, however, also give many...