American football

Horse Races September 15 Feature Ayr and Pontefract in Full Swing Ayr and Pontefract are some of the racecourses with key events on September 15. Other venues include the likes of Yarmouth and Chelmsford. The flat horse racing season is under full swing and there have been quite a few surprises already. One can expect some upsets and shocks as horse racing today enters into courses like Ayr, Yarmouth, Chelmsford, and Pontefract. Ayr Hosting races throughout the year, Ayr specialises in…

object there are always many things overlooked. To properly observe something you must use all the senses available. The senses of touch, smell, taste, sight, and sound are useful in describing something that is completely foreign. When touching a football glove the many different textures can be overwhelming. The palms have a smooth texture but they also feel tacky, to help them catch a ball. The back of the hand has a soft fabric that is padded to help protect from an incoming blow. After a…

It was a very cold and frigid sunday mornin’ in good ole’ South Carolina when I was playing ultimate frisbee. I was hot sweaty and exhausted in the cold early morning. I was the one they were going to throw the frisbee to and I looked up at the sky and the light blinded my eyes. As I was running backwards trying to catch the frisbee I almost tripped over an old wooden log. I recovered slowly from my stumble and continue to run down the wet field. As the frisbee came closer to me I could feel…

I believe in football Football is my life. it’s more than just touched downs and points to my eyes. it’s more than just tight pants to my eyes. The thing I like about football is that is I can hang out with my friends on the weekend. I believe in football. Teamwork is my life too. Teamwork is my life too because it needs to do with football when you do a play. Teamwork is just not pretending to work as a team but after you are not as a team to my life. itś more than just pretending to work as…

McCrea, Hammeke, Olsen, Leo, and Guskiewicz (2004) used a sample of over 150 football players from 20 high schools around Milwaukee to investigate the frequency of unreported concussions in high school athletes to accurately estimate the occurrence rate of concussions of these athletes. This study was conducted by first having the players fill out a questionnaire on their concussion history and then they completed a confidential questionnaire at the end of the season to report the number of…

to graduate a semester early and enter the University of Virginia next January. His neighbor is a point guard on the local public high school basketball team in northern Virginia. Next fall, Patrick, 17, would like to try out as a kicker on the football team at Freedom High School in South Riding, Va., but he is home-schooled and thus ineligible. “My parents pay the same exact taxes as my next-door neighbor who plays varsity sports,” he said. “I…

As I gazed at the neon illuminating from the scoreboard, I felt mentally drained and overworked by the effort poured into this game. With every step I took towards the dented, bench the gymnasium only shrunk in size, making my body feel restricted and short of breath. I felt out place, as if I was lost in my own backyard. The smell of popcorn from the stands diminished, the shrill from the sneakers gliding on the polished hardwood weakened and the tension from the crowd grew with time…

My summer started off fantastic, I was sleeping in, I was hanging with my fiends, I was helping my dad on the farm and, and playing baseball. I wasn't really worried about school, I was more worried about football. Everyone was telling me that the first 2 weeks of football were going to suck, they were saying that we were going to have to condition a lot. The main thing everyone was talking about was that we had to lift a tone. I kept thinking to myself, why am I doing this, than it hit me, I…

A new coach, an overhaul of players, the same hunger - the Newcastle Knights look to avenge their 2014 VB NSW Cup Grand Final loss starting this weekend with the Manly Sea Eagles. Rick Stone was the head coach of the Knights in their 48-12 Grand Final loss at the hands of the Penrith Panthers, and while there are a lot of new faces within the group, their 2015 coach Matt Lantry believes it is imperative for those players to have learnt from those experiences. “Those guys that were involved…

Even the best athletes like Michael Jordan, Derek Jeter, and Tom Brady feel pressure before and during a game. However, some athletes do know how to channel intense pressure into positive intensity to boost performance. Pressure is a perceived expectation of the need to perform well under challenging situations, especially during a big game such as a state championship, tournament, or the Super Bowl. Fear of failure and expectation are both very prominent within athletics, and both are tied to…