California with his family at an early age. He was always an avid athlete and sports enthusiast as a child‚ playing several sports throughout high school. At California Polytechnic College‚ Madden played on both the offensive and defensive lines for its football team and was a catcher for the school’s baseball team. In terms of schooling‚ Madden received his Bachelor of Science diploma in 1959 and followed it up with a Master of Arts degree in 1961‚ both from California Polytechnic. It was his athletics
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Pro Basketball vs. Pro Football If you had a choice‚ would you pick a career where injuries are less frequent and less severe along with a better salary or a career where injuries are frequent and sometimes severe‚ and salaries are not as good. Anyone in their right mind would choose the first option. This will now bring me to my topic‚ professional basketball is better than professional football. Professional basketball is more dominant than football in three critical areas‚ injuries sustained
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High School and College Football Since middle school‚ I have been playing the game of football‚ and I’ve loved it ever since. Being a bigger kid‚ I always have played the offensive line and defensive line positions. These positions require the actions of blocking and tackling. I enjoyed blocking and tackling so playing the game was very fun for me. Throughout the years I have enjoyed working hard to make my performance better. Countless hours of practicing and lifting weights have been a big
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Youth football good or bad you decide By now we have all discovered that football is a dangerous sport for all age groups. In the professional leagues‚ college levels‚ high school‚ and even the pop warner leagues (here in Michigan called rocket football)‚ players can end up getting broken bones and perhaps concussions (Lavigne). The much higher levels of the game there can have serious consequences with the risk of serious injuries‚ there have been multiple cases of paralysis or even death from
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it made sense that the book itself is what his diary would have been. In Tangerine‚ there was a typical family setup‚ which included the award winning athlete older brother. In this case it was Erik Fisher and the Erik Fisher Football Dream. Erik is represented by a football. Paul and Erik’s father definitely favored Erik and supported him in his sports career. It often made Paul feel left out‚ and a result was conflict between the two brothers. Tangerine was a captivating story which kept me in
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played basketball for the first two days for 2 hours‚ Then I went to Arkansas where I got to go to another Arkansas football game that lasted 5 hours and was a back and forth game so it kept me standing‚ and on the way home I watched my favorite TV show criminal minds. A lot of people have different favorite things‚ but some of my favorites are‚ playing sports‚ watching Arkansas football‚ and watching a good TV show. First of all‚ playing sports is one of my favorite things to do. They teach me discipline
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big game. We all were waiting for this day for a very long time. Let me tell you how we got there. It was two weeks into school when the P.E teacher asked if me and my friends want to join a football team? It was out of school so I and my friend said yes. So he gave us the paper and we went to the football tryouts some of my friends made the team. We went to practice two times a week after school. Then it was are the first game the score was zero to zero the time was flying. At the end the whole
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How Football has Changed my Life What event changed your understanding of yourself‚ or that of someone you know? I was five years old when I started. It was early august and it was my first time ever playing an organized sport. I could tell I was about a few weeks late for the practices because everyone else had a football helmet and I didn’t. It was nerve wracking to see all the kids playing and me not knowing what to do. At the time I was really short (well of course I was five) but some of
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I’m pretty sure most people have a passion. Well‚ all I know is that I have a passion. My passion is to play different sports. I play football‚ basketball‚ baseball‚ and soccer. I’m only in 8th grade and I can’t play that many sports right now because I usually have a lot of work and homework to do. Also I have Arabic school on the weekends. That means I have 7 days of school. But luckily Arabic school is only 4 hours. I play soccer in Arabic school. So I actually play soccer every weekend
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There are many values which have been instilled in me from playing football and that will always be a part of me‚ specifically effort. I believe effort is timeless‚ it’s something that you learn at some point‚ and used for the rest of your life. Last football season was a trying time for me. After putting in countless hours of training over the preceding spring and summer I found out I finished third in a three way quarterback competition for the starting job‚ 6 days before the first game. I had
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