Why is sport like religion?

You could always start with Sam Harris' comment that "sport" can cover a wide range of activities, from lawn bowling to UFC cage fighting. In the same way, religion can go all the way from Jainism, where people cover their mouths to keep from killing bugs by accidentally swallowing them, to Christian and Muslim terrorism.

You could also point out that religion (or more precisely, monotheism) tends to be divisive, encouraging people to choose sides, to badmouth each other for nothing more than being on the other team. That's a lot like sports.

You could point out that sports serve as much meaningful purpose as religion does. With one exception, of course: sports are entertaining.

sport enthusiasts and religion enthusiast exhibit the same irrational fanaticism for their obsessions......

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2Tim 2:5 Also, if anyone competes in athletics, he isn’t crowned unless he has competed by the rules.

Religions have their rules as well as sports. If one doesn't go by the rules, they will be disqualified.

That should get you at least started. The passage below uses sports as a metaphor to teach about religion, so you should be able to gleans some stuff from it too.

1Cor 9:24 Don’t you know that those who run in a race all run, but one receives the prize? Run like that, that you may win. 9:25 Every man who strives in the games exercises self-control in all things. Now they do it to receive a corruptible crown, but we an incorruptible. 9:26 I therefore run like that, as not uncertainly. I fight like that, as not beating the air, 9:27 but I beat my body and bring it into submission, lest by any means, after I have preached to others, I myself should be rejected.

Rather give your reasons why sport is not like religion and why your teachers are so stupid and unthinking.