Have or having ?? (About grammar)?

Question

We have moved from going to a football game once a week to having sports on television twenty-fours a day. Billions of dollars go to the salaries of sports heroes each year. Clearly, we are obsessed with sports and in particular, winning at sports. The effect on our children is tremendous; some children have no time with one or both parents who are locked to the television on a daily basis. More important is the huge increase in parental concern about their children being on a winning team. Winning has become more important than playing to do your best and (A) [have / having] fun.

which is the best answer ?? have?? or having??

Answer 1

having is the correct answer.

Answer 2

Have. For 'having' you'd need a comma before the last 'and'.

Answer 3

Having is correct.  It's called parallelism - playing / having.

BTW to previous answerer -- grammar is spelled grammAr, not grammEr.  (Kelsey Grammer is another story ;-)

Answer 4

"Winning has become more important than playing and having."

Always remove the extra words and the correct grammer seems more obvious.

Answer 5

having --- for sure :)

Answer 6

having

Answer 7

Having. =)