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I think what he meant
"While young people are involved in sports, they are, by definition, not involved in other antisocial activities such as substance abuse, crime etc."
I suspect there was a little bit of snark in that statement. How I read it was that when a young person is on the field (i.e., running, kicking, yadda yadda yadda) they by definition cannot also be dealing crack, robbing liquor stores, raping grandmas, etc. Because they're playing a game or at practice. Although a football game infused with an anti-establishment vandalism spree would surely be an interesting spectacle.
What they do after the game or outside of practice is another story. But at least we all get a reprieve during those precious precious few hours.