2009 World Championships in Athletics

the world, millions of fans, television coverage, scoring, and winners. The TV guide lists golf events under sports programs. Arguments against Golf Is a Sport: 1. Golf…

continues to not pay the players then more eyebrows will be raised due to the fact that universities bring in so much revenue from their athletic teams. This issue will always be highly argued due to the fact that so many people are involved. When you have a job you get paid, and if you happen to get injured on the job you get workers compensation, right? College athletics is a job, but if you get hurt they can’t do anything about it, even if the injury is a life-threatening one. This results in…

It is important to understand the early use of media, and how it has changed the world that we know today. The use of media has been a huge contributor in the growth of knowledge in America. The power of the media was recognized in World War I, when President Woodrow Wilson used the media to reach the masses to help promote the American war efforts. In 1927, the media gained a new and radical outlet with the…

outside and held him up toward the nighttime sky. “Behold the only thing greater than yourself,” he then said, repeating the words Omoro spoke to his son, Kunta Kinte, in the movie Roots. (Biography.com Editors) Micheal was blessed with very good athletic ability. Like his father, who gave…

Here I want to point out one of the top athlete in Malaysia who is Datuk Lee Chong Wei. His performance at World Championship 2009 in Hyderabad has made many supporters disappointed when he lost to Sony Dwi Kuncoro at quarter final. It is true that Chong Wei is a world class standard player but by not winning a big tournament like the All England, World Championship or even the Olympics, Datuk Lee Chong Wei cannot be classified as a great player. He is too anxious to finish off rallies…

Athletic transferable skills are skills learned through one sports that can be applied to another. (Stankovich, 2011) Young athletes can learn many important fundamental physical movement skills with early diversification that can then transfer later in life…

When people think of golf the first name that pops into people’s mind is Tiger Woods. Tiger has seventy-nine professional golf tournament wins and fourteen majors. Even though Tiger still hasn’t passed Jack Nicklaus’ eighteen major championship people still believe that Tiger Woods is the greatest golfer who ever lived. Tiger’s career hasn’t been all positive, though; the 2008 United States Open being the last major tournament he has won. Because of this slump, Matt Cochran advocated that Tiger…

greatest basketball player to ever rise out of Chicago. Playing for Simeon, he was named the top player in the country as a junior in the ‘83-’84 season. He carried the team to the state finals his junior year and won; claiming Simeon’s first Illinois championship but would never make it to the Professional league or even college basketball, his life greatly changed the city of Chicago in more than one way. On March 18, 1967, Benjamin Wilson Jr. was born in Chicago, Illinois (Ben Benji Wilson,…

In 2009, the NFL acquired its first female NFL officiator, Sarah Thomas. However, it was not until August 2014 when the Antonio Spurs hired its first female assistant coach, making her the first full-time, salaried female coach in the NBA’s history. In January…

Metandienone or Methandienone is better known as Dianabol. In a study conducted on Methandienone, men who conducted athletic training, strength, and performance exercises, outperformed men who were given a placebo. Although, they did not outperform the placebo group by too much. The test subjects given the Methandienone, gained more weight and had more of an increase…