important life lessons that you can benefit from when you become older just off youth sports. Competitive sports have been scientifically proven the playing youth sports can help you learn a variety of life lessons. Specifically‚ that sports can help you win and lose gracefully. Playing youth sports can improve your teamwork. And lastly‚ sports can help you realize that you are never too good to not practice in anything. Sports can help you learn to win and lose gracefully. This is important because when
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prevailing light of sports; women weren’t socially accepted to engage in sports‚ it was seen as a function only men could do. In recent years women have begun to embrace sports and knock down the norm that sports are only for men. However‚ a concealed affair that persists is the faulty image the media has portrayed on how female athletes should look. According to the article‚ “I Won‚ I’m Sorry.” by Mariah Burton Nelson there is still a disequillbrium between men and women in sports. Women are limited
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The topic I am going to discuss today is Drugs in Sport. My contention is that drugs should not be made legal in sports. Drugs in sport is an issue that is always in the spotlight‚ especially during major athletic events such as the recent and highly controversial‚ Tour De France. However‚ now the issue has risen to such an extent that sport itself is almost a side issue. There have been numerous drug busts over the years as more and more athletes succumb to the temptation of an easy win by
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children active and healthy. It is so that they don’t become lazy and unmotivated. By playing sports it is a way for kids to become active and sociable with other kids around them rather than having them sit on the computer all day or watching T.V. When it comes to team sports it can have its advantages and disadvantages‚ it can be worthwhile for that kid or it can end up in a disaster. Being in a team sport takes effort and dedication‚ when a team member is down and was counting on you to be there
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revenue‚ and alumni. Without college sports‚ many students wouldn’t have an understanding about what the college world is. The largest thriving sports network within college athletics is college football and college basketball. These sports generate not only hometown fans‚ they can influence out of state fans as well while also creating super fans who will devote their academic career to a school based off of their favorite sports team. Many true college sports fans don’t usually just like a school
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how cheerleading isn’t a sport or shouldn’t be considered one. Cheerleading is the fastest growing girls sport‚ yet more than half of Americans do not believe it is a sport. In addition‚ they fail to distinguish between sideline cheerleaders and competitive ones. A real cheerleader doesn’t stand on the side; they are performing‚ working hard to be the best of the best. You have to be physically and mentally prepared to take on competitive cheer. Cheerleading should be a sport because it requires physical
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A sports team is an expression of a fan’s sense of identity‚ pride and belonging. This reaches deeper into Noam Chomsky’s idea that “there exists a psychological phenomenon that occurs in sports‚ where fans have a sense of irrational loyalty to a meaningless community.” One can begin to speculate on his argument that spectator sports are just a distraction for the masses: “a form of propaganda designed to divert society’s attention from things that matter.” (Chomsky). “Friendly” sports can actually
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The sport soccer has been known all around the world for some time. Today soccer is one of the most played and popular sports in the world. It’s played in just about every nation on earth. It is enjoyed the same way americans enjoy football and basketball and other american sports. The sport soccer can be traced back about around the eleventh century. In england was the first country where the game was developed but the inventor of the sport is unknown. At first it was a sport that was played during
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While all of the events provided an educational and fascinating experience‚ the event that left the biggest impression on me was during Indigenous Peoples Day. During the afternoon activities‚ there was a workshop called “Roots of Injustice-Seeds of Change Workshop”. This workshop changed everything that I thought I knew of the Native American people. The workshop consisted of a hands-on communal engagement exercise and discussion‚ regarding the oppression of the Native American people. Initially
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Sports are essential part of our daily lives. Some of us play sports‚ we constantly hear news about some incident happening in the sporting world‚ or we are constantly checking the ESPN tab on our computer. Although sports present a danger in our worlds both physically and mentally. Physically we can get a concussion‚ tear our ACL‚ or hurt ourselves in another way. Emotionally we can have anxiety over winning or losing or some other emotional instability. Last OP I talked about concussions and the
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