[Born to Conserve]

I think athletics is more expensive than the sciences.

[Squawk 8888]

True, but my understanding is that the sports teams are a major profit centre.

[thackney]

I think athletics is more expensive than the sciences.

Not when you include the revenue from the major sports.

At my college, the revenue from football alone paid for all other athletic programs, at least so we were told. But that wasn't hard to believe with a stadium seating for ~100k.