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That's a bad way of looking at it. First of all, sports are entertaining. There's a reason why people like it. Second, no one gets there without hard work. For every kid that makes it to college basketball, there are probably hundreds of others that didn't make it even high school basketball from the under 10s.

> this country spends too much of people's money and attention on this nonsense

Are you also against TV, movies, video games, reading fiction, etc.? God forbid people spend their money on entertainment. I'm not even a basketball fan, but I can recognize that your comment is absolutely ridiculous.

> can get into a college with zero brain power just for being tall

Basketball is a lot more than "being tall"...

Entertainment...

What use does society have for Facebook and Twitter long term? Those are far more detrimental to society than college basketball.

couldn't agree more