8/26/2014 Should Cities Pay for Sports Facilities? Share on: E-mail Print T HE REGIONAL ECONOM IST | APRIL 2001 Should Cities Pay for Sports Facilities? By Adam M. Zaretsky "We play the Star-Spangled Banner before every game—you want us to pay taxes‚ too? —Bill Veeck Americans love sports. Watching the home team in any of the four major sports—baseball‚ football‚ basketball and hockey—march to victory in the World Series‚ Super Bowl‚ NBA Finals or Stanley Cup Finals arguably generates more
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Why PEDs Should be Legal in Sports In life we all strive to be the greatest we can‚ we do anything to reach our maximum potential. As sports fans we pay to see the best athletes perform at their maximum potential. Performance enhancing drugs do just this; help athletes reach their pinnacle. Currently most are not legal in professional sports‚ but this should change. With performance enhancing drugs legal it would make professional sports far more entertaining‚ reduce underground and unsafe drug
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Should Females be Allowed to Play on Male’s Football Teams? “Katie Hnida --the first woman to score in an NCAA Division I-A (a Football Championship Subdivision) game -- was on the roster as a kicker at Colorado in 1999 and later played in games at New Mexico.” (ESPN) Katie Hnida was a female football player in Colorado and New Mexico. She was discriminated against because of her gender‚ and it eventually led to her being sexually assaulted by her teammates. Women have struggled drastically to break
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Competitive sports are getting more and more popular with young kids. Although some people may say children should not play sports because of the risk of injuries‚ there are many reasons life skills that kids can learn from sports. First‚ they can learn personal skills and secondly they can learn social skills. The first reason adolescents should play competitive sports is that they can learn many personal skills. For example‚ “Sports: The Benefits of Competitive Athletic Sports Participation
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Should Video Games be Considered a Sport? I think they should.Here are some of the reasons I think video games should be considered a sport. 1.Video games are more popular than actual sports‚ 2. There can be physical movement in the games‚ 3. handicap/obese teens can do a sport‚ 4. Stretches the mind’s ability to create tactics. First‚ over 40‚000 people piled into a soccer stadium to watch the tournament on league of legends‚ and over 27 million people watched this tournament worldwide! That’s
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people should start doing Parkour. Parkour is a training discipline using movement that developed from military obstacle course training. The question we are all wondering is if Parkour should be considered a sport at the same level of other individual sports? In this essay‚ I will argue that Parkour is a sport such as any individual sport for multiple reasons. For me‚ I also consider it a form of art because it’s very fluid and done in the city while learning the culture. First‚ Parkour should be known
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“School should be about learning‚ not sports”. Kids now a days love to play sports‚ but don’t like to learn. Learning‚ and get an education this is a very important thing in life you need it to have a good job so that you can have a family and support them. So I feel in school you must have good grades in order to play any type of sport‚ and if you do not then you should not be playing. A couple reasons I feel like this is for starters kids pay more attention to sports then they do in class.
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Should Sports be Coed? Even though girls and boys might not get along with each other at first‚ sports should be coed because the teammates will learn to work together‚ motivate each other‚ and learn other social skills. There is too much separation between males and females in some sports and other activities‚ it’s becoming a problem. It’s a problem because now there are too many gender stereotypes and negativity in the world. Exclusion of some genders from different sports has happened too
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Chair‚ members of the house‚ This house believes that women and men should not co-compete in all sporting events and we will argue this motion for several reasons. We all want to watch fair and entertaining sporting events‚ so is it fair to tell every sports viewer that the rules and regulations are going to have to change? That the quality of most sporting events will decrease for no purpose at all? Equality in sports is an issue‚ but men and women co-competing is not the answer to it. Physiologically
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might feel in sports. Some may feel that they want to get pushed harder‚ some may want to stop playing. But‚ some kids want to get push‚ and become better at the sport you love. Most people think that sports are bad because kids get hurt a lot and that it is expensive. I think that if your kids like the sport that they are doing then I think it is worth the amount of money sports cost. If your kid doesn’t like the sport why are you letting him/her play the sport. Just from sports you can learn life
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