A potential solution for appeasing other students and preventing them from faking Sports Fandom -- while still accommodating a Sports Fan's reasonable situation -- is to give the Sports Fan an extra assignment to complete. This would dissuade other students from turning in their paper late (because they would want to avoid having to do extra work), but would satisfy the Sports Fan since they would do anything to be able to see their team, band, etc.
The teacher would still have to have strict guidelines for this accommodation: 1) the request would have to be deemed reasonable 2) the assignment couldn't be too easy or many students would take advantage of it 3) The extension for the original assignment couldn't be too accommodating, just long enough to give the student the time they lost from attending the event But this could be a conceivable solution to this problem.
A potential solution for appeasing other students and preventing them from faking Sports Fandom -- while still accommodating a Sports Fan's reasonable situation -- is to give the Sports Fan an extra assignment to complete. This would dissuade other students from turning in their paper late (because they would want to avoid having to do extra work), but would satisfy the Sports Fan since they would do anything to be able to see their team, band, etc.
The teacher would still have to have strict guidelines for this accommodation: 1) the request would have to be deemed reasonable 2) the assignment couldn't be too easy or many students would take advantage of it 3) The extension for the original assignment couldn't be too accommodating, just long enough to give the student the time they lost from attending the event But this could be a conceivable solution to this problem.