No, neither is golf but sports takes away from smarter thin kings skills and USA has ended up worse off for its pursuit of sports. They cut the arts and give money to football, burns me up. It has been proven time and time again that music and the arts build better balanced smarter people but instead of providing art, music and debate school cut funding that would impact thousands and funnel money towards a few muscle bond talents at the expense of a greater good. Forgive me but this is a subject that winds me up, just a few can ever make it into that world, there is so much potential brain power that goes un rewarded. Just think of the potential breakthroughs that could happen if kids were rewarded for thinking instead of exhibitionism. We might even have a real president instead of the egotistical guy we now have. I blame sports. I'm probably wrong but it's way too overrated