Examples Of Negligence In Sports

An inherent risk is an injury specifically associated with playing that particular sport. Every sport has these and it is important to know them for each particular sport. “Educate participants and parents about inherent risks of the sport through verbal messages, signage and printed materials such as informed consent agreements” (Corbett, p.10) For example in basketball an inherent risk would be twisting an ankle from jumping up to grab a rebound and coming down awkwardly weather under owns action or landing on another player’s foot. Another example could be from getting fouled hard by an opposing player leading to them hitting the floor resulting in an injury or running into the basketball frame. “[T]here are physical risks that are an inherent
An example of potential negligence can be seen in football and has got a lot of national attention with the recent development of Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy from concussion in high contact sports. Players want to return-to-play (Menta, 2016), so that they can keep their jobs and continue to make lots of money and the National Football League was allowing them to play since they know fans came to watch the star players play. Recently the National Football League has started implanting new concussion protocol along with hiring outside doctors not affiliated with them to give these exams so players are returning when they are healthy not when they want to return. Even though only the players know if have recovered they may lie when under evaluation phase so that they can return to
Either making a mess on the court on injuring a player. Basketball is unique in many cases as they allow courtside seating along with easy access to playing surface compared to sports like football and baseball who have walls up as a barrier to prevent people from easily gaining access to the playing surface. Ways to reduce the risk of a fan entering the court would be by having several security guards present at the game watching and preventing people from going on to court along with verbally and writing on the ticket the consequences that will happen to those who disobey those rules. NCAA has looked into court storming at the end of game however has not ruled it illegal. Conferences are starting to fine member schools for courting storming as it turns into a civil liability nightmare and trying to reduce its member schools from allowing it. The NCAA wants to avoid devastating injuries and subsequent litigation (Winneker, 2017). Gross negligence I fell would come into play here as all college students know that they should not enter the court of play along with knowing that is unacceptable to hurt another living