Sports doesn't seem to get a lot of love here unfortunately.
Maybe changing it to Sports and Fitness might give it some incentive to work out for the forum.
This is just brainstorming here, but things that occasionally get brought up are homework help and science topics, perhaps merging maths, science and generic homework help might be useful. Not sure how to categorise it though.
I dislike the idea of a goodbye forum. But maybe...
Also, I was slightly annoyed when a certain topic got deleted, the one with the wigs, despite the fact that it was completely useless. Threads like that perhaps could be put in a locked section for me to personally laugh at. But that's probably taking things way too far.