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    Have you ever wondered How the choices we make impact or shape our identity? There have been many people that have made the choices to become the great people they are today. One example of this are athletes of the past and present. Another comes from the poem called “The road not taken”. The final example comes from another poem called “Choices”. As said before, many athletes of the past and present have made miraculous choices to become the legends that they will always be known as. One man…

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    My whole life I have been involved in sports. I have played volleyball, cheerleading, gymnastics, and track. Sports have had a major impact on my character and most importantly, my life. I have played many sports, but the most impactful sport is cheerleading. I have learned the importance of being dedicated to a team. In other sports, if one person is missing, the game goes on. In cheerleading, if one person if missing, that stunt group cannot practice. Each stunt requires every single person…

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    Background Sports training is an inactive problem. Most parents consider that their children are gaining all the significant experience purely from the coaches and playing in school sports. The parents of the ‘star’ players, e.g. quarterbacks and team captains, and the ‘star’ players themselves are the most influential target market. The parents want their children to succeed in sports and acquire opportunities further on due to their athletic performance. The student athletes that desire to…

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    Race And Racism In Sports

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    Sports have been ritualized for years in America. It is one of the many staples of this country and continues to be glorified, despite many that may characterize it as an unethical marketing tool to attain revenue, using the ability of other humans. Sports have some components that make it a conceivable instrument of integration and harmonious race relations. “Mention must also be made of what came to be termed in the early 1990s as the new politics of ‘race’ and ‘racism’. Underlying the new…

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    Sportainment Case Study

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    Originally, sports and entertainment were two different things. However, in more recent times, society has blended the two together creating the idea of “sportainment.” The term, “sportainment,” is the idea that sport is transforming into being based solely around the entertainment factor rather than about the actual game; it is the mixture between sport and entertainment. The idea of “sportainment” has taken the pure sport aspect of playing a game or physical activity and altered it into part…

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    Sports Unifier Analysis

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    A: Sport as a Unifier 1. I believe sport has brought people together all around the world. It has the potential to unite a country. Sporting events such as the Olympics and the World Cup bring nations together to compete, not in war, but in games and events. An example of sport as a unifier is when South Africa hosted the Soccer World Cup in 2010, it had a huge positive effect on the national morale. In addition, all the construction that went on to prepare the country’s infrastructure and…

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    through sports, however that just did not happen. My childhood was filled with trying practically every sport and I just could not find my passion in any of them. The variety of sports that I tried and failed to commit to allowed me to realize qualities about myself that made it easier to manage them when I was growing up. Through sports I discovered that I am indecisive, uncoordinated and fragile. For most people, sports made working with others and managing time easier, but with as many…

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    Violence in the sports world is best known for intentional acts of violence in which can injure another person such as another player, a coach, a game official, and even another fan. Violence in the sports world is not only known on the field but just as well as in the stands with fans. Although it is more commonly found on the field sports violence mostly begins with the fans. An outstanding result found by Dr. John Cheffers was a strong link between both the fans and athletes. If it is seen…

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    men have been playing sport at the same level achieving amazing things, sometimes women are preforming better than men, yet no one knows about the success they have had. The media highlights men’s sports in such a way that you hear about it on every news programs, advertisements, it takes priority over other television programs yet what about Women sport? Men’s sport is exciting and thrilling to watch. To be able to see amazing athletes doing amazing things. If women sport had a chance, then…

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    Badminton Discourse

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    Badminton is a sport or hobby that people of all ages engage in, as this exemplifies that this sport is a initiative of fitness and weight loss which many people desire, as nearly 1/3 of the population of the world is obese. Many players are amateur and many are professional. Badminton is quite a world famous sport and majority of the countries joins the Olympics every four years. It is a sport played with a shuttle cock and a racquet. The game is easy to play once you get familiarized with it.…

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