Amateur sports

Trophy Kids, follows the story of five families whose life is centered on their child’s success in sports. It goes behind the scenes of what each of the parent’s strategies are in order to push their child to the next level of becoming the next all-star athlete. Although, what they fail to realize is they loose sight of what is important. That is, what is important is for their children to enjoy the sport and for the parents to not get caught up in the hype that the child will one day be a…

What makes a sport a sport? A sport in most people's eyes, may only be football, soccer, basketball, baseball, etc. because these sports are widely promoted, and have a popular, and extremely competitive sports culture, that requires great physical effort. But what makes a sport a sport does not solely depend on if the sport is physical or not. A sport can also be a mind sport, which uses intellectual ability instead of physical ability. The Oxford Dictionary definition of a sport is: “An…

Competitive Sports There is tons of school and communities with kids getting hurt and even dying from combative sports. - If you continously compete with others, you become bitter, but if you continously compete with yourself, you become better- Kids from all the way around the world have been getting hurt that bad in there life & stopped doing their dream because of some of the injuries. In 8 articles it says some tragic things that can happen to you while playing a competitive sport. But it…

Did you know that basketball is one of the most played sport. Also basketball has the most selection of injuries. This article is all about the most dangerous sport due to how many injuries the sport has. What is the Most Dangerous Sport The most dangerous sport due to most injuries in the USA is basketball. Basketball has the most injuries even more than wrestling and football. Basketball is the most dangerous sport because it has a huge amount of injuries for players to have, and in…

Sport has always been a big part of my life, what has developed is my interest in how science plays a large role within sport. For a long time I have known this is the career path I want to take, I want to be able to expand my knowledge about how the body adapts to different types of training to help others develop their sporting performance. Learning to train the human body both physically and mentally in order to achieve those extra margins is where my interest lies. While studying Biology I…

During my junior year of high school, one of my friends who wrestled for the school talked me into joining the team. I knew nothing about the sport, but decided to join the team anyway. I bought myself wrestling shoes and headgear and went to the first wrestling practice of the season. The wrestling room reeked of sweat and was relatively small. An old maroon rubber mat covered the entire floor, just as dirt covered all the windows. I put my wrestling shoes on and started practice. Within…

Wrestling is a sport well one person battles it out with another, you can basically call wrestling a street fight with rules. If your not ready for the fight ahead then maybe you go look for a different sport. I was not physically ready for this match. I got hurt pretty bad with a concussion and it did not feel good. My painful concussion happened at Mountain View High School almost a year ago. I was wrestling this kid named Kyle Rice, Kyle is a kid who has wrestled for so long and beat me…

The term soulmates has always flown about, scarf-like, through the whims of youth--as if tethered to some mythical upshot of the essence of life. But I know the truth. Oh, how they will tell tales of us, My Dear! How the pallid wash of grey-stone was enough to curse her alabaster heart. Perhaps they will liken me to a whisping strands of light caught thrashing against the estrangement of midnight. Oh, and in those stories she will be agile. One minute: a fragmented piece of daylight wrapped…

Pro Wrestler Do you remember watching wrestling as a kid? Ever since I was a little kid I was all ways hooked on watching wrestling. I remember watching my favorite wrestler of all time Edge. I remembered as a kid all ways watching Edge and cheering for him I always liked "heels" more. If you don’t know what a heel is, it’s a "bad" guy in wrestling. But just being 5 or so, I knew nothing about the wrestling business just that they were fighting and wanted the championship. But now I now that…

James S. Olson. This book touches on the impact that the period after the second world war had upon the sports industry as a whole, and the issues that plagued the sporting industry. How the sports industry changed exponentially during the post war era, how these games were meant to be fun for the people playing them the core reason people played sports not for money or glory but to have fun. How sports went from something to be enjoyed by the people to forget that hardships of their daily lives…