Sentence examples for emphasizing sports from inspiring English sources

Such a move could well force the smaller schools to re-evaluate whether to continue emphasizing sports — or not.

Those schools have many success stories but in recent years have often been criticized for professionalizing childhood and emphasizing sports over education.

Naturally, Jake has his own vision of a minischool, the Teamwork Academy, emphasizing sports medicine and management, finance, business and athletics.

Educational achievement was emphasized; sports was a pastime, tolerated so long as Khadijah did well in school.

The Sims Online aside, analysts say Electronic Arts continues to do several things right: the company emphasizes sports games, most notably its signature game, John Madden Football, publishing new versions each year to capitalize on evolving technology, and updating players and teams.

China, which did not win its first gold medal until 1984, has emphasized sports with the most medals — rowing, for example, with 14 golds, rather than basketball, with its two collective golds.

Of course, not all children are meant to be athletes, and that is why Camp Oakwood does not emphasize sports.

As a result, authorities in the soccer-crazy kingdom were seeking to reduce soccer's popularity by emphasizing other sports like athletics and handball in policy and fund-raising, according to sources involved in sports policy.

Small changes can include finding a new sports league that emphasizes fun and participation over winning, a new piano teacher who is less demanding, or making the local mall off-limits to your children.

Part of the problem is that both public and private schools are emphasizing competitive sports for the benefit of a few at the expense of physical fitness for the many.

My experiences in sports have helped me understand that youth coaches should emphasize that sports are a place to have fun, learn good sportsmanship and give 100%.