Boyd: "It’s time to celebrate Louisville’s student academic stars the way we worship athletes."

At Insider Louisville, Terry Boyd spots probes the American cultural sore spot wherein sports is everything and academic achievement a voluntary coin toss. My, my ... we are a shallow and self-defeating people, ain't we?

 ... What you’ll never hear is a WHAS Radio call-in show dedicated to listeners trading rumors that the next Stephen Hawking or Steven Jobs might be at this very moment acing a calculus test at Collegiate.

The funny thing is, I find the school systems are reluctant to indulge their intellectuals in the way they’re so fast to tout their athletes.

When I tried to pry the names of top students out of administrators, the silence was deafening.

“Well, we don’t really single out individual students.”