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Have you ever been part of a community that was as close as a family? My high school varsity football team was my second family for three years and even longer because I had grown up with most of these guys. Throughout my high school career, they were there for me through hardships and struggles that came with being a student-athlete. My team was a normal group of guys who cared about each other and supported one another, but as high school football players, there are misconceptions that many…

Amateurism or Capitalism: A Practical Approach to Paying College Athletes I. Introduction: On April 7, 2014, the University of Connecticut (UCONN) men’s basketball team was poised to reach their goal of a national championship. The AT&T Stadium was packed with 79,000 fans who paid an average of about $500 to watch the Final Four games. CBS cameras were setting up on the sidelines; the network paid approximately about $800,000,000 a year for the media rights to show the NCAA Tournament on its…

From the age of 10 years old the thought of time never actually came to me as my interest dealt with stepping up to a black three point line on the hard concrete basketball court to learning how to tackle opponents in moist and muddy grass. Everyone pays attention to time but does not actually take advantage of how many tasks can be done. I never cared for how long it’ll take me to get to a meeting or simply meeting mom downstairs by a certain time to go grocery shopping. I was highly involved…

American Football American football is one of the fastest growing sports in America, and it is continuing to grow in popularity. Whether it is pop warner/ little league, to high school and college football, to the pro level, or the NFL, it is very clear that the sport of football is very popular and will continue to grow in popularity. Because the of the average amount of people watching and playing, how versatile the players of the sport are, and its recognition and endless amounts of…

National Football League has been a mainstay in American sports for quite some time. It has had many positive impacts on our society, however, we will explore how minority professional football players are unfairly targeted. This has occurred by a host of entities both inside and outside of the league. We will examine employer drug testing, stereotypes by the media and how law enforcement unfairly target athletes through unfair practices. The NFL’s has more than approximately 1700 players that…

People have a bias about people from the ghetto they think they will never leave there and only put their life down the drain but there have been people to come out of the ghetto who are very influential like Richard Sherman who plays Cornerback for the Seattle Seahawks, Leonardo DiCaprio who was born in the neighborhoods of Los Angeles and is now a movie star, and Jay Z born in Brooklyn and now is one of the biggest rappers of this…

I chose the book Heart Over Height for this quarter’s book report. This book was written by Nate Robinson with the help of Jon Finkel. Nate Robinson was a player in the National Basketball Association. He played and currently plays the position of point guard. Nate Robinson is short in stature according to basketball standards. He is five feet nine inches tall. He was the National Basketball Association’s first three-time slam dunk champion. I chose to read this book, because it is an…

MORGANTOWN, W.Va.--As the second week of Fall Camp is underway, Dana Holgorsen met with members of the media on Tuesday afternoon and discussed the West Virginia University football teams progression. Another player out for the season is freshman cornerback Jake Long, who is going to be sidelined after shoulder surgery. “Maybe could have practiced him but we’re talking about redshirt,” Holgorsen said. “Let’s just go ahead and do it so we have you ready for next year. He’ll be ready for spring.…

The NFL is a monstrous business. Last year the league brought in 7.24 billion dollars that was split between all thirty-two teams and the NFL office. http://www.sbnation.com/nfl/2015/7/20/9006401/nfl-teams-revenue-tv-deal-7-billion. The money brought in is because of the fans that are tuning in every week. Last year, 2015, seven out of the twenty most watched programs were NFL football and two more were NCAA football games…

The author, Sean Gregory, in “The Perilous Fight,” talks about the political issue that has been going on for the past year, the issue started when a professional football player from the San Francisco 49ers team, also known as Colin Kaepernick, kneeled down when the National anthem of the United States of America was played at the beginning of a game. Kaepernick’s justification for this was that this was his way of protesting the unfair treatment of individuals because of racial characteristics…