Should professional gaming be considered a sport? Professional gaming has gained a lot of viewers in the last few years. League of legends viewing has gone from a small gathering to the Seoul football stadium packed with space for 66‚000 people and getting around 270‚000 people watching online through a stream‚ the year before‚ 32 million people watched (http://www.theverge.com/2013/11/19/5123724/league-of-legends-world-championship-32-million-viewers). Dota 2 has a similar following‚ with the last
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respective sport. Some players though such as Alex Rodriguez‚ Barry Bonds‚ Sammy Sosa and so on tried something that can take the fame and their good health away. They chose to take a substance called anabolic steroids. What’s the big deal people will say. Those people don’t understand though how it is taken‚ the small benefits it could give that player and huge negatives steroids can have on a person. To first understand why baseball players take steroids it must be known what steroids do once
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Ethics & Reality TV Should We Really Watch? Media both in America and around the world seem to have "discovered" that so-called "reality" shows are very profitable‚ resulting in a growing string of such shows in recent years. Although not all are successful‚ many do achieve significant popularity and cultural prominence. That does not mean‚ however‚ that they are good for society or that they should be aired. The first thing to keep in mind is that "Reality TV" is nothing new - one of the most
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Sport Addicts Any nation has its most popular sports. While Europeans spend days in front of TV sets and on stadiums watching their favorite soccer teams play‚ North-Americans‚ Canadians in particular‚ prefer baseball‚ basketball‚ and football. Thousands of youngsters as well as adults‚ male and female‚ spend their time and money watching another baseball play-off match. Some prefer sitting in front of the TV at home‚ munching junk food‚ while others decide to attend a match at the stadium. Sports
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Week 8 Final Draft Contact Sports ENG 112 June 21‚ 2012 Contact sports have been a part of school age children’s life for a long time in America. Whether it be football‚ soccer‚ lacrosse‚ wrestling‚ or the recent addition to American sports‚ rugby. Millions of children in middle school or high school have worked hard and enjoyed playing. In recent news articles contact sports have been deemed bad for children. Doctors have been studying the statistics and have come to the conclusion that
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On January 3‚ 1961‚ nine days after Christmas‚ Richard Legg‚ John Byrnes‚ and Richard McKinley were killed in a remote desert in eastern Idaho. Their deaths occurred when a nuclear reactor exploded at a top-secret base in the National Reactor Testing Station (NRTS). Official reports state that the explosion and subsequent reactor meltdown resulted from the improper retraction of the control rod. When questioned about the events that occurred there‚ officials were very reticent. The whole affair‚
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be a good leader. In this portfolio I am going to explore different leadership approaches and attributes within the context of sport. Through examples of current leaders in sport I hope to identify similarities to theoretical evidence. Sport is a disciplined activity that demonstrates a lot of role models for leadership‚ not just athletes‚ a lot of jobs within the sport sector include leadership qualities. What makes a leader? The debate between is a leader born or made has opened up a lot of
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Economics 200 November 20‚ 2001 Economics is Winning Bolivia’s Drug War A 1998 article from the New York Times reported that Bolivia was winning its war against drugs as a result of two factors that influence the market for coca‚ which is used to make cocaine. First‚ Bolivian soldiers raided a number of coca plantations and destroyed the crops. Second‚ Colombians began growing more of their own coca and‚ as a result‚ now buy less from Bolivia than in the past. I am proposing that the basic
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Dance: The Art Inside A Sport For many years there has been the great debate of dancing and whether or not it is a sport. Most athletes look at dance and say “That’s not a sport. Anyone can dance.”(Is Dance A Sport? para 1). Dance to the majority of the population is considered to be an art and no more. I’ve heard countless times where people would say “Dancers aren’t athletes” and this paper is dedicated to proving those people wrong. Although dance is a performing art‚ there are other attributes
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Performance-Enhancing Drugs in Sports 1 Performance-Enhancing Drugs in Sports Angie Holmes Axia College University of Phoenix Effective Persuasive Writing COM 120 Roseanne Robinson 24 September 2006 Performance-Enhancing drugs 2 Performance-Enhancing Drugs in Sports Although athletes are good enough to play in professional sports‚ many of the players feel pressured into using performance drugs to enhance their athletic skills. Athletes take these drugs believing that it provides
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