Sports and Games are very important part of our life and they are becoming more and more popular all across the world. Sports keeps us relaxed, fit, relaxed and active. Almost all the doctors recommend exercising as convalescence and prevalent of many diseases. Athletes are divided into two types – amateur and professionals. The amateur approach to sports is when a exercises, jogs and swims once in a while. Sports are mostly performed together as team, instead on playing individually. According…
“People complain that professional athletes get paid too much, but what they don’t understand is that we need a lot of money because we spend a lot of money,” is a quote from Patrick Ewing, a famous NBA star. His quote directly shows that athletes are being paid too much. For example athletes get paid a great deal more than the working class. They also get paid way more than surgeons, who save lives. There are also orphanages who barely make enough money to keep the kids safe. In all, athletes…
games were played in England, lacrosse then becoming more and more popular in several countries and in 1904 and 1908 lacrosse was played in the Summer Olympics. On November 22, 1877, the first college lacrosse game was played between New York University and Manhattan College. There are now over 600 colleges that offer the game of lacrosse at a D-I, II, And III level. Lacrosse is now considered to be America's oldest sport and America's fast growing sport. In the 1930s “Box” lacrosse was…
The game of Lacrosse and the Mastermind behind Lacrosse Camps, Jon Urbana Lacrosse is a team sport that is played using a lacrosse stick. The first intercollegiate lacrosse game in the US was played on November 22, 1877 between Manhattan College and New York University. This was after the game was introduced in upstate New York in the 1860’s. One organization that has been at the forefront of promoting lacrosse across the state of Colorado in recent years is the Next Level Lacrosse Camp (NLLC).…
When Disney announced their numbers for its fourth quarterly earnings in 2015, we saw a massive decline in revenue and subscribers from ESPN, a whopping 3.2 million subscribers in 2015 and a cumulative of 7 million subscribers within the span of two years, reported Nielsen. This major decline resulted from the acts of ‘cord shaving’ and ‘cord cutting, which is respectively when consumers opt in for ‘skinny bundles’ that does not include expensive programming and when they decide to cut their…
There are two sides to this argument; one side believes that athletes are being paid too much and are not worthy of being glorified as role models and an additional side where people believe athletes can be great role models and earn the money they receive. The following argument will give evidence of how athletes can be great role models and how they earn their money. The amount of money received by athletes is looked down upon, but being a professional athlete is not only a job, but also a…
Singer’s views and opinions on world poverty are valid and logical. Supporting evidence is found in celebrities in entertainment and personal experience. Many people spend extreme amounts of money on luxury items such as vacations, new cars, clothes, shoes, etc. But, how much of those things can really be considered “necessities?” The Kardashian family has made their fortune from their television series Keeping Up with the Kardashians and also with the people they choose to have relations with…
Although most people think athletes should make as much money as they do, others think they shouldn't make so much. Athletes get paid millions and even sometimes billions of dollars per game. I'm going to use my favorite player, Lebron James. Lebron gets paid 30,963,450 dollars a year. Lebron is the top paid player in the NBA. In 2017 Lebron James is the top most paid player in the NBA. Lebron makes, 30,963,450 dollars a year, that's a lot of money. Today hard workers get paid about 25 dollars…
Back when I was a little kid, I have loved to run. I love how free it makes me feel. I love my hair flying back behind me, the sound of my feet pounding on the cement or crumbling dirt, the rhythm of by fast breathing, the exhilarating feeling of winning a race. When I was eight years old I was the closest to beating the fastest boy in the neighborhood, which was quite an achievement. I could always avoid being tagged during Ghost in the Graveyard, Freeze Tag, Refrigerator Tag, and all our other…
Have you ever encountered the thought of what sport would be the sport for you? Do you enjoy running? If the answer is yes to either of those questions, you may think that soccer and cross country are the same thing or have the same concept, but they don’t. With soccer and cross country both being sports that teach endurance and sportsmanship, they also offer different circumstances and objectives. High school soccer and cross country can be totally different, but that does not mean they do…