text: how have sports impacted our society? has it been negative? positive?  both? too much competition? not enough? it has focused our society to prize athletic prowess vs. intellectual ability.  thus some student athletes do not receive a proper education and associated life skills.  what happens to them if they get a major injury?  they founder.  sports have provided many, many metaphors that are commonly used and understood by most people.  i feel that introducing competitive sports too early to children makes them self-indulgent, less cooperative, and less considerate to others.  we should never teach children to "win at all costs" unless we want them to grow up to be monsters.