improve their social and leadership skills. This is important, because social and leadership skills are much needed in daily life. John Keilman states that football is a team sport; requiring everyone to contribute. Since football is a team sport, by playing, players are learning to work with other people, Opponents of this argument may claim that football encourages children to act out violently. However, although football involves seemingly violent actions; violent tendencies outside of the game, depend
Today, we hear a lot about the downsides of sports: the injuries, scams, academic stress, and drugs, but it is important to realize that only a small amount of athletes actually get involved with this. Playing sports is a healthy way to grow up and to become a successful person. While athletes may encounter the negative side of sports, those are the experiences they can grow from. Playing sports give athletes a chance to experience different types of pressure and make choices that will determine
The Problem with Concussions Vince Lombardi, a legendary NFL head coach, once said “football isn’t a contact sport, it’s a collision sport. Football’s violent nature has enticed fans from across the country. The game has been around for almost 150 years. In that time period, the game changed drastically whether it was the rules or style of play. Concussions were considered to be normal injuries that needed little time to brush off. Players often sat out a few minutes to catch their breath and regain
that we, as a country are known to be peacemakers. Most injuries that occur in a hockey game do not derive from fights. Raffi argues that taking fighting out of hockey will reduce the number of injuries that happen during game. This was not a good argument, because fighting is not what causes the most, or the worst injuries. The injuries that occur the most often and are the most severe are the hits. The hits are the worst because
Should men and women compete against each other in sport? I would like to look at this subject because I am passionate about gender equality in sports and how women should not be discriminated against just because of their size or strength. Feminist movements in 1970 were just the beginning for breaking down gender stereotypes and women being excluded from sporting events. However, organisations are still discriminating against women in many sports due to a clause in the equal opportunities legislation
Football is more than a contact sport; it is a collision sport. “The concept of permanent brain damage and dementia following repeated blows to the head is a very well-established and generally accepted principle in medicine” (qtd. in Jost). In football, players will suffer from repeated blows to
legitimacy as a sport; and its drivers have been criticized about their classification as athletes. This is an unfair assessment of the sport and its participants. Many times, people and even athletes from other sports try to nullify NASCAR as a sport and its drivers as athletes. In these situations, the naysayers are simply uneducated about what a diver goes through during a race, or what NASCAR actually entails. A closer look and better understanding of NASCAR can prove that it is a real sport with real
lot of improvements have been made. Now there are even MMA. MMA is also known as mixed martial arts. In another word it is a full-contact combat sport that allows the athletes to use both striking and grapping techniques whether it is both standing and on the ground. It took place worldwide through the Europe, Japan and today even Korea. In this sport, the competitors were pitted and will fight against one another with few rules. Later during the fight, they will start using more than one skills
start a play the players whizz around the ice t checking, passing shooting and taking their shifts while a puck never takes a break. To anyone who has never seen a hockey puck, it is a little round rubber cylinder flying all over the ice while other sports use balls hockey is played with a puck. A hockey puck is made of more than just seen by the naked eye, it is made by vulcanized rubber which is a heavy duty rubber that tends to break less often than normal. Yes people have broken hockey