31.   Take sports, for example.

32.   That is not surprising, coming as it does from two filmmakers who are admitted sports freaks and have long done films that take sports very seriously.

33.   The circuit took the sport from the Massachusetts shore to communities in the Berkshires.

34.   The Japanese have taken this sport to heart.

35.   The middle class takes its sports seriously.

36.   The oppressive expectations were born in another world, before many state universities took the sport seriously and before scholarship limitations balanced the talent pool.

37.   The question the last year or so is not whether shaped or parabolic skis are for real, but where are they taking the sport?

38.   Then, ESPN introduced the X Games two years ago, and, suddenly, people started taking extreme sports seriously.

39.   They competed on a professional tour for little money, but took their sport as seriously as any major-league athlete.

40.   They take the sport out of sport.