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Why should someone who’s swinging a bat at a ball make more than 2 times what a life saving job makes? Even more compared to and educator! Do they really deserve it if they don't know how to responsibly spend it? PLayers don't know how to responsibly handle their money. For example according to a 2009 article 78% of NFL players get in financial trouble within two years of retirement. Kenny anderson an NBA player was whining about how he was having trouble paying for the insurance of his 8…

When I was eight-ish years old, I played soccer for the villa rica recreational department. We had a game, it was the last game of the season, it was the championship game. We played against a team called “The cougars” and By the end of the game our two teams were tied at 2-2; The game went into overtime. The referees decided that the game would end with a PK shootout. I was chosen as the goalie for my team, and my friend, Will, was the shooter (but he’s not important). The teams flipped a coin…

LeBron James and many other athletes make millions of dollars each year. Yes, professional athletes do gain their salary because they are extremely impressive, but they are not worth millions of dollars than nurses, firefighters, and policemen that dedicate their lives for the rest of us. However, athletes are overpaid. Some people think that these athletes are not overpaid. Tom Brady makes $36 million in one year. Compare that with the average income for a family: $54,000. Americans will work a…

Let’s talk about my soccer experience. Nah, let’s call it futbol, the real futbol. I’m from Honduras, a place where the sport that plays the most is futbol. I started to play futbol when I was maybe 5 years old. Oh, men, I was a super fan. I loved it so much. It was everything to me. The only thing in my schedule was futbol and nothing else. My life was surrounded by only soccer. I joined the school futbol team and my city team. I went to both practices. During lunch, I used to play futbol with…

The Keeper Mal Peet wrote books best known for young adult fiction. His first novel was The Keeper, which is a novel under the categories of young adult fiction and sports fiction, took him three years to finish and was started when he was at the age of 52. The book is about one of the world’s greatest soccer goalies and how he got to where he is coming from a small, poor logging town. Mal Peet wrote The Keeper is such a unique way. It includes tension, mystery, and excitement. It’s memorable…

The idea to be athlete never interested me. I was couch potato that watched too many movies. Unfortunately, this led me to become overweight. That’s when I decided to try out for the only sports team in my middle school, basketball. Surprisingly I didn’t make the team. Later, in the year a soccer team was formed. I tried out for the team. I was selected for the team regardless that I didn’t know how to kick the ball in the right direction. Even though my team never won a game I knew that I…

After playing soccer for nearly my whole life and eventually playing competitively in high school, I have grown a passion for the sport. This is why I decided that I would take up coaching as a way to gain some experience in the world of sport management. Luckily, friend of mine asked me to help him as an assistant coach for the under-12 soccer team he was coaching in the Ormond Beach Soccer Club recreational department. I saw this is a great opportunity to gain some experience in coaching and…

Kevin Meza Personal Narrative Blue Ninjas November 14, 2017 One special event that has happened to me was when my dad first teaches me how to play soccer. When he first taught me was in our Guatemala vacation and we went to the field with my cousin and he started to show us the basics about soccer which was passing, shooting. I really wasn't doing good because I didn't even know how to play soccer or even kick the ball in the direction my dad was asking to kick it to. The first days it was…

Many times I have come to find that success is hard to obtain, and failure is inevitable. Soccer has taught me many lessons, from working hard to never giving up. There have been many instances when failure was the only option but I overcame it. In the first years of my soccer career I began on the local soccer club's B team. But after a few years of great perseverance, I was able to make a spot on the A team. Although I was happy with the progress of moving on to a better team, I was…

There are different sports fans out there. Die hard fans are fans that ride or die for the team. Those fans will stick with the team through their up’s and down’s no matter what. The opposite of those fans are bandwagon fans. These fans like a team just because they are good. These fans have a tendency of changing favorite teams a lot, they just want to support a team that will win the championship. Lastly there are the fans that support a team but do not know anything about sports. Sports fans…