Life requires much more learning beyond the 3 Rs.  The idea that sports programs should be eradicated to appease such a myopic philosophy contributes nothing to fiscal solutions for the State of Alaska.  Sports are a drop in the overflowing bucket of state expenditures created by political dinosaurs yearning for the return to 19th century dogma.  This commenter is looking at the wrong end of the telescope of greed and incompetence created by political deadheads.  When the huge sucking sound of giant corporation's extracting billions from the natural resources of the state is shut off, the state accounts will be overflowing again.  Jettisoning sports and any of the rest of the university components merely removes all possibility of learning for generations to come.  All created by a mindset rewarding greed over any social responsibility for current and future generations.  Sad.