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    2014 he scored 8 touchdowns. You can tell Beckham Jr. improved throughout all 3 years he played for LSU. Beckham Jr's stats for the NYG are better than his college stats but they are similar you can tell that he has improved in the NFL from college football. His yards in the 2014 season were 1,495 that's less than his last season for LSU but it was his first year in the NFL. In 2014 season he scored 13 touchdowns for the NYG. He has only played one season for the NYG so far he has started his…

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    means everything to me. Football is my life, it keeps me going and motivated. Being on that field makes all of my worries or problems go away. I am in full control on that field. Shutting down anyone that comes my way. Even though it’s game I play no games on the field. All joking and shenanigans cease once I hit that field. The only thing that matters is winning and being there for my team. Whenever i’m down or having a bad day I go out and do drills. Throw the football around a…

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    basically follow the genes of your family. When my brother wanted to play football he had to tryout. On the next day of his tryouts, I learn how to play football. If you don't know think about football, except for the fact people tackle other people and use a football. Trying to play would be tough. When my dad was teaching me; we started with the basics. The basics of football are how to catch,throw and hold a football ; these are the things that are most important. As we started playing my…

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    I chose to use your example in dilemma two. I choose this dilemma because I deal with it all the time in my own home and with some of my students. All my son wants to do is play football. All his life has been a very talented football player and it has advanced him in certain situations in elementary school and middle school. Once he got to high school it caught up with him and he’s learning his talent can’t get him to college without the education and behavior to match it. As a parent is…

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    have a long life ahead of them but a concussion can harm their life in a unfavorable way because of a multitude of hard impacts. If there were more rules and regulations to prevent the amount of concussions many kids would be safer while playing football or other high-contact sports. The NCAA, National Collegiate Athletic Association, has taken action into their own hands by proposing practice once a day rather than two times a day, and less contact during practice. This NCAA minor adjustment is…

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    said a typical high school football player receives 650 hits per season, and in 2014 that more than 9,500 concussions were reported among high school football players in the U.S. (16). At least 8 football players have died in 2014, according to the National Center for Sports Injury Research, but other factors may have also caused this than just football(16). This is about the dangers of sports injuries, and how we can keep this from happening so much. I think that football is the most dangerous…

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    was in seventh grade, I quit playing Rebel Football. Rebel Football was a team that offered a unique experience to play football with your friends and receive expert coaching from a former college football player. Almost every boy in sixth, seventh, and eighth grade was on this team. Being on this team was akin to a badge of honor. If you were not on the team, you were ostracized. Although I played in sixth grade and liked being with my friends, football was just not my strong suit, so I quit…

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    Fred Mcneill Case Summary

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    Fred McNeill’s story is a familiar one. He played football for 22 years, 12 in the NFL as a linebacker. Years after he retired, CTE, or chronic traumatic encephalopathy, symptoms started including: depression, memory loss and eventually, deterioration in motor skills and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). He died at 63. Yet McNeill’s case is different than the many other NFL players linked to CTE. Up until McNeill, every player associated with CTE had the disorder diagnosed only after their…

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    concussions per week in the National Football League has rose from 5.4 per week in 2009, to 7.6 in 2010, and 8.4 in 2011” (Fainaru, 2012). This narrative hook would draw the reader in by presenting them with the statistic of the rate that concussions occur within the National Football League. Creswell states in his book, that one should “consider numeric information for impact” (2014, p.114). This statistic identifies the problem that concussions pose to professional football players, and the…

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    In John Grishams The Bleachers, Eddie Rake was king. If he wanted something to happen, it happened. Football was at the top of Rakes priorities, “football was king and that would never change” (Grisham 103). Everyone seeks Rake’s approval. He has been a very successful coach, “almost anyone on the streets of Messina could rattle off from memory—thirty-four years as Coach of the Spartans, 418 wins, 62 losses, 13 state titles, and from 1964 to 1970 an undefeated streak that ended at 84” (Grisham…

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