College football

Athletes don’t technically need play to get paid, yet they earn so much money. Do athletes get overpaid? Many professional athletes get paid millions of dollars. Some people think that these athletes are paid too much. Others think that future issues are one reason they should get paid a lot of money. People who think they get paid too much thought others, for example, firefighters, soldiers, etc. don’t get paid enough for saving lives and risking theirs. Compared to those jobs athletes have a…

Everyone wants to become either an athlete or a genius. There are different perspectives on these two subjects and different rewards. Athletes get up early and go practice. Smart kids study when they get home. Some people have both of these things, athletically gifted and genetically smart, but when they grow up they have to chose, and that is going to be a difficult task. Athletes are usually the people who get all the attention. They are the “popular” kids. Professional athletes put in around…

Throughout the history of mankind societies typically valued others based off how that society or individual works. However, we should really value and learn FROM others based off how they play and use their free time. According to WBUR News “Sport reflects culture. If the culture of baseball is American, the culture of soccer has been largely fashioned in Europe. Soccer was formalized in England in the mid-nineteenth century and rapidly spread to Europe and South America (WBUR, 2005). This…

author of this article, is an outdoor recreation fanatic, operates a kayaking company, managed a ski resort as well as lives for these sports and paintball, presents all of these statistics out of 100,000 exposures each year. “Paintball: 0.2, Tackle Football/Downhill Skiing: 3.8, Ice Hockey: 3.7, and Soccer/Baseball: 2.8”. Paintball is only 0.2 injuries per 100,000, compared to soccer at 2.8. That is astonishing. The predetermined assumption that any other sport is safer than paintball is proven…

When you play a sport, is mental agility more important than physical prowess or both of them are equally as important? From the evidence received in the excerpt “Why We Run?” from Bernd Heinrich and in the article “What Can Be Better Than A Touchdown?” from Kelefa Sanneh. The answer to the question is actually that mental agility is more important than physical prowess so you can play any kind of sport really well. To start with, metal agility is a more important attribute than physical prowess…

Ever since being introduced into the sport of soccer, I have been changed by the learning experiences that I have endured through my endless determination to become a varsity soccer player. Junior year was in the midst and so were tryouts for soccer, during the winter season. So, I tried out and was selected into junior varsity. My season was very fine as I was a starter for either center back or striker. In the end of the season, during the banquet, the Varsity coach pulled me over to talk to…

first started football I wasn't good because I had a terrible coach who didn't teach me the fundamentals of football and a that point I had wanted to quit But my parents encouraged me not to.When I first started football I wasn't good because I had a terrible coach who didn't teach me the fundamentals of football and a that point I had wanted to quit But my. parents encouraged me not to quit and then 4 years after training me and playing baseball I start it back up.When I started football…

eventually winning the Stanley Cup, the championship trophy of the NHL. Unlike them, girls who grew up playing hockey played to increase their chances on being able to go to college on a scholarship or maybe play in the Olympics, if they were lucky. Many of these girls saw their hockey careers end after they graduated college. A few of the lucky ones, who were skilled enough to play in the Olympics, just did not find an opportunity of making hockey into a paying career. Yes, there are…

History of Soccer Soccer is one of the most popular sports around the globe in the world of sports. Also, known as football in the rest of the world, The fist apparitions of soccer dated back about 2000 years ago, in Ancient China during the Han Dynasty. The People would dribble balls made out of leather and filled with hair feathers in a military exercise called Tsu Chu. They would kick the ball into small nettings that were fixed with bamboo canes and at the same time they had to protect…

My senior year could have not started any better. On July 30th, 2015 I get a call from Coach Brock Hayes from Louisiana College offering me a scholarship to play at the college level. Ever since I was small, I always dreamed about playing college football and it finally came to reality. Fall camp was getting ready to start, and I was so excited to get my senior season started. I put in so much work and effort to get into the position I was in, so I was not going to let my team down. But like…