Disabled sports

believe that sports are add more to my life and skill set than just exercise. Sure, it is beneficial for my body and health, but it also adds a lot more to my life. Before I started sports, I was very shy and smart. When I started Kung Fu, I realized how much I love being active and how important being active was to me. Once I started sports like basketball or softball, I started to come out of my shell and create many new friends. They also gave me a passion for all types of sports and what…

Imagine you are a college football player in the 1860’s when it was invented. You are handed the ball and you are running through the pack when you slam head first into a 300 pound defensive player. From that day on you cannot move the rest of your body because a spinal fracture in you neck. Luckily today, players are much less likely to do this because of how football gear has improved. Football gear long ago had many issues, solved, by modern equipment. The first type of football gear added…

My participation in competitive hockey began ten years ago through the North Bay Girls Minor Hockey Association in North Bay, Ontario. Since then, hockey has become a lifestyle and a major part of my own identity. The first nine years of my hockey career were spent in North Bay as a part of the Ice Boltz team. My obligation to the team and desire to be successful required me to make sacrifices in my personal life. Travelling to games and practices, working out during the summer, and…

games begin to be televised. Often times football, baseball, and basketball games are shown on local TV broadcasts. From personal experience, I have never seen a high school soccer game broadcasted on TV in Sioux Falls. This is a problem because other sports are getting more exposure and as explained above, more exposure leads to more popularity. The graph below in Figure 2 shows the popularity in football vs. soccer among youth athletes as pertained to which was preferred to watch on TV.…

time whether cheerleading is a sport or not has been a debatable topic. Many people will argue that cheerleading is not a sport. Cheerleaders is competitive just like any other sport.-----------` Cheerleading has been around many years. According to Merriam-Webster Dictionary, a cheerleader is “a person who is a member of a group (typically a group of young women) who shout out special songs or chants to encourage the team and entertain the crowd during a game in sports like American football…

Trophy Kids, follows the story of five families whose life is centered on their child’s success in sports. It goes behind the scenes of what each of the parent’s strategies are in order to push their child to the next level of becoming the next all-star athlete. Although, what they fail to realize is they loose sight of what is important. That is, what is important is for their children to enjoy the sport and for the parents to not get caught up in the hype that the child will one day be a…

What makes a sport a sport? A sport in most people's eyes, may only be football, soccer, basketball, baseball, etc. because these sports are widely promoted, and have a popular, and extremely competitive sports culture, that requires great physical effort. But what makes a sport a sport does not solely depend on if the sport is physical or not. A sport can also be a mind sport, which uses intellectual ability instead of physical ability. The Oxford Dictionary definition of a sport is: “An…

Competitive Sports There is tons of school and communities with kids getting hurt and even dying from combative sports. - If you continously compete with others, you become bitter, but if you continously compete with yourself, you become better- Kids from all the way around the world have been getting hurt that bad in there life & stopped doing their dream because of some of the injuries. In 8 articles it says some tragic things that can happen to you while playing a competitive sport. But it…

Did you know that basketball is one of the most played sport. Also basketball has the most selection of injuries. This article is all about the most dangerous sport due to how many injuries the sport has. What is the Most Dangerous Sport The most dangerous sport due to most injuries in the USA is basketball. Basketball has the most injuries even more than wrestling and football. Basketball is the most dangerous sport because it has a huge amount of injuries for players to have, and in…

Sport has always been a big part of my life, what has developed is my interest in how science plays a large role within sport. For a long time I have known this is the career path I want to take, I want to be able to expand my knowledge about how the body adapts to different types of training to help others develop their sporting performance. Learning to train the human body both physically and mentally in order to achieve those extra margins is where my interest lies. While studying Biology I…