It&#x27;s unfortunate that video games need research to make them seem worthwhile, but sports are widely accepted as being good things for kids to do. Even though I&#x27;d bet there&#x27;s a negative correlation between time spent playing sport and academic performance, at least at the more extreme ends of the spectrum. At high school, it&#x27;s not even good for preventing obesity since the most lasting obesity starts in childhood before teenage years. Anecdotally, I know several people who  played competitive sport at high school then quickly became overweight afterwards apparently because they maintained the high-energy eating habits they needed as a teenager.