Due to the practice of trying to make every child feel like a winner in sporting events, Roxanne Jones (former vice president at ESPN) wrote “Listen kids, not everyone is a winner.” She wrote this to hopes to convince parents that making children play sports this way will do more harm than good. Kids need to learn how to lose, and this is why she refused to sign up her son for sports where this ideology is enforced. To appeal to the emotion of the reader she writes in a tone that very clearly shows her distaste for this type of attitude in children’s sports. Jones build credibility in this argument by quoting two professional athletes, James Harrison and John Smoltz. The argument is easy to read and well organized. She beings the article
