Sports have been used for recreational play, entertainment, military training, to help determine power within the community, and to show off skills. Participating in sports successfully, at any level, takes…
Character traits gained while being an athlete are proven…
Method Participants Both the male and female freshman basketball teams of St. Francis Xavier High School, a local high school, were sampled in the experiment. The high school freshman population was chosen because freshman are typically unexposed to the underlying purpose of the experiment like many upperclassmen may be from higher classes. This could alter the results and the natural human response to the situation may not be shown. Twenty-one total students participated, eleven males and ten females. The participants consisted of students between the ages of fourteen and fifteen.…
Males and females are biologically different, but their performance and work ethic in sport is very…
Scholar athletes are disunited from their peers, because their…
Sport and physical activity are a significant influence on the meaningfulness of life for all cultures. Throughout the course of history culture groups have used sport and physical activity to assimilate themselves into their respective society. Both African American slaves and Japanese Americans held in internment camps along with, young Caucasians have all used sport and physical activity to accomplish three goals. These cultural groups have all used sport and physical activity to build community, achieve recognition and distract themselves from their current situations. The article that I read entitled, Sport and community in California’s Japanese American “Yamato Colony”, deals a lot with sport as a significant influence on the meaningfulness…
African American athleticism has long been a major factor that shaped U.S sport culture. There major sports in which African American Athletes change the doctrine in which how they are performed. On such sport is boxing. Boxing in itself was a form of entertainment for the white men before and during the Guilded age of America. Yet, when American sports began a movement towards a more modernize and organized entity, boxing was more so, left behind.…
Periodization may be extremely confusing especially to a strength and conditioning coach at the high school level. One may wonder what is periodization? What periodization model is the best for what type of athlete? How do I implement periodization for a high school athlete? These are just a few questions a strength and conditioning coach may ask themselves or others.…
College sports have become a universal pastime for many Americans. Popularity of college sports has peaked with the 2014 inaugural college football playoffs, becoming “[t]he two most-watched broadcasts in cable TV history,” with a combined total of 56.5 million viewers between the two semifinal games according to CNN (Pallotta). Young men playing college sports are exciting as it brings back the college atmosphere that many older individuals crave. However, some question if African-American players in football and basketball are being exploited by the greedy NCAA supporting racial discrimination and cashing in on these innocent, unpaid students? Donald H. Yee attempts to answer this question by displaying a world of athletes, mostly represented…
Summary In “Children Need to play, Not to compete” Jessica statsky is concerned about competitive sports activities of children between age of six and twelve. She argues that it can be physically harmful for growing bodies and children can get acute to chronic injuries. In addition, she also stated that it could be psychologically detrimental for other children who are not been selected. Which make them counterproductive and depressed.…
Every kid who plays a sport, has someone they idolize and eventually they will want to be just as successful or maybe even more successful than that person. But what makes that person successful? Is it the money? Is it the fame? Is it the flashy clothes and cars?…
Issues statement: Early specialisation is essential to develop into an elite athlete. Introduction: Within the sporting industry today, there is a lot of controversy within elite sports as to whether young athletes require specialising in a single sport at an early again order to play professionally. Early Sports Specialisation (ESS) is an intense, year-round training program in a single sport with the elimination of participating in other sports.…
Mixed martial arts have been blamed for being more aggressive and dangerous than boxing, but this information is an invalid rumour. According to a CBS News article: “A University of Alberta study released Thursday says the opposite is true, that boxing poses a higher risk of serious injury, especially from concussions, head trauma and loss of consciousness. MMA fighters have other ways to win a fight beside from punching in the face, like an ankle lock or an armbar or a choke-out, as for boxing it is all about aiming for the head and body leaving the result of head and body injuries. Such as brain injuries, cuts of the face, eye injuries, hand injuries, fracture of the skull and facial bones.…
Boxing originated when a person lifted a fist against another in play. Different eras of the sport have been distinguished by the use or nonuse of fist coverings. The ancient Greeks believed fist fighting was one of the games played by the gods of Olympus thus it became part of the Olympic games in about 688B.C... Rules around that time were amateur fights of 3 rounds, professional fights from 4 to 15 rounds. The recognized length of a championship fights is 12 rounds.…
Self serving bias is the act of people attributing success to dispositional causes and failures to situational ones. For example, if someone does well on a test they will conclude that they are intelligent, while if they fail the test they will blame the teacher. The self serving bias occurs due to two major factors; motivational factors and cognitive factors. Motivational factors is the idea that attributing success with dispositional factors is used for increasing or maintaining self esteem. Individuals see attributing failure to external factors provides them with self protection from reality.…