Each year‚ approximately 1.6 to 3.8 billion Americans receive concussions from sports and recreational activities . Many of the people suffering from concussions are involved in competitive sports‚ especially high school sport teams (The Center for Disease Control and Prevention). While participating in a high school sport is normal‚ the players would not want to miss a game if they did not have to‚ and many of the players assume that if they go to the athletic trainer as soon as the game is over
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concussion is a serious injury that happens to many football players. It is estimated that there are 1.5 million high school football players in America today (Slattery 1). Of the 300‚000 sports related concussions reported annually‚ 83% are suffered by football players (Scoggins 1). Sadly‚ since 1968‚ eighty nine high school football players have died after suffering a concussion (Nowinski 49). Players also can suffer long term negative effects from a concussion including
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Concussions in High School Sports When stepping between the lines during a sporting event‚ athletes of all ages risk injury for the sake of enjoyment. Annually‚ 6.9 million high school athletes are at risk of serious brain damage while competing in athletics (Comstock). Even though many athletes go through high school athletics without ever suffering a concussion‚ the statistics are staggering. Of the 4‚431 injuries reported in 2005-2006 season‚ 396 or 8.9% of those injuries were concussions
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Concussions Athletes are risking their lives for the sport they love. Unfortunately many do not realize the negative effects concussions and other head injuries have on their brains. Individual and team sports were invented out of a love for competition. These games however with the evolution of the players becoming bigger‚ stronger and faster makes the sport is less like a game and more like war. It is only now that we have begun to realize the severity of concussions and the effect they have
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Sociology of sports Christopher Wood Colorado Technical University SOCL120-1302B-05 Professor Andrew Crowther 16 June 2013 Abstract: In this paper I will voice my views on the sociology of sports. I will also talk about my observations and how it pertains to NASCAR. The sociology of sports is the study of the relationship between sports and society. The sociology of sports looks at sports from several different perspectives including the conflict‚ functionalist‚ interactionist
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Waking up the day after sustaining a concussion is probably one of the weirdest feelings I have ever had to experience. For the next two weeks‚ I felt like I was in a cloud. After sustaining four concussions myself‚ I have experienced the powerful effects that concussions have on our body first hand. My senior year of high school I sustained a concussion that ended my football career. This is the reason I chose to compare the different styles of research between peer reviewed journals and popular
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4/12/2013 | Sociology of Sport | | Christopher McDougall | Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe‚ Superathletes‚ and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen | Chapter 1 This story begins as the author explains his love for running although his body and begun rejecting running by initiating an excruciating pain in his foot. The author went searching for answers to why his foot hurt and what to do about it. He went to one of the best doctors in sports medicine only to be told the human body was
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Keland Carter College Writing II Mike Pitoniak 3-24-13 Concussions in the NFL When watching a football everyone looks out for the “Big Hit” but what people don’t look out for is the after math of these so called big hits‚ which a lot of the time leads to concussions. These concussions are becoming much more severe and there is a lot of concern about the safety of players who attain multiple concussions‚ not because of the immediate problems it might bring but the future toll that
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Sociology of Sport Study Guide Interrogating Excellence Chambliss‚ “The Mundanity of Excellence: An Ethnographic Report on Stratification and Olympic Swimmers.” “Excellence”- “consistent superiority of performance” What does NOT produce excellence Excellence is not the product of socially deviant personalities Quantitative changes in behavior Natural talent or ability What does it come from Qualitative differentiation More of what is done than how long 3 dimensions of difference Technique
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Sociology in sport Film review: bend it like Beckham Bend it like beckham is based on Jess‚ a 17 year old British born‚ Sikh girl who has an undying passion for football‚ her favourite player is David Beckham and he is exactly who jess wants to be. But jess’s parents have taken every effort to stay in touch with the families Indian heritage. Jess ’ father and mother are after their daughter to go to law school‚ learn to cook a traditional Indian dinner‚ and settle down with a nice Indian boy
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