You go to school to gain knowledge
You play sports to promote entertainment.
Entertainment isn't the promotion of knowledge, though.
Yes it is. I learn a lot from entertainment and a lot of it is to share new ideas or teach different principles.
I would never understand teamwork the way I do without football. I think that's an important skill that is valuable in the work place, at home, and on the field. But to many, including myself, football is entertaining.
I wouldn't have found my passion of video game design without interesting media tutorials and video game developers playing their games (Machinimas). There is so much knowledge needed to create video games, but making things fun and engaging during the learning process turns something impossible to very easy.
I learned how to communicate (partially) with people with television shows that have people in regular conversations that are funny to watch because of the interesting circumstances and that they are so true to life.
