Linebacker

Grendel is a dark monster who lives off of terrorizing the Geats. The Geats live happily at their football practice every single day working hard and sweating with their star captain Beowulf. Grendel is the star captain who plays for Grendel High. The school is named after him because he punished the school until they named it after him. The reason that Beowulf High is named after Beowulf is because he is such a respectful person; his family name has lived on for him to carry and the whole town…

The Most Gruesome Sports Injuries in History Sports injuries are never a good thing, but in some instances they're truly horrifying. The following professional sports injuries are among the most shocking and gruesome to have ever occurred. The results of these injuries range from an ended season, early retirement, and even death. They illustrate why you need to be careful whenever you participate in a sport. Basketball Player's Leg Break Ends Season During a U.S. National team scrimmage, Paul…

cologne filled my nose making me want to gag. My eyes became watery at the smell; my rapid heartbeat already making it hard for me to breath. Without looking at his face I could already tell that the person tormenting me was the school’s star linebacker,…

It was a crisp night in Febuary 2 years ago. The moon beamed down on us. I felt the brisk breeze across my ears and face. My nose was running like a waterfall. We all looked like ripe tomatoes. Then my whole team ran out of the tunnel similar to a pack of bulls running after a red towel. We all zipped to the side line. We all huddled together to stay warm. We heard the 1,000 fans yelling in the background. I felt the bitter air rush past my ears as I ran down the field. As I stood on the…

“To be a better football player than you’ve ever been. You have to do something you’ve never done.” by Felicity Luckey. It was a cool evening as the game started, it was a Wednesday and we are lining up to play Rigby. The spark of excitement in the air and the noise of the whistle and we were off. Football has shaped me into the person I am today. It’s not just my favorite sport, it challenges me to do things I’ve never done, making me want to prove myself, and this demanding sport has made me…

and uprooted his family to Kansas so he could achieve his dream a psychologist. McGraw attended Shawnee Mission North High school in Kansas. His senior year he was awarded a scholarship to the University of Tulsa for football.He was a 6’4 middle linebacker. During one of his games he got badly injured and was not able to continue playing football. He transferred to Midwestern State University. He started studying to be a psychologist like his father. In 1975 McGraw got his bachelor's degree in…

Just as soon as it began, spring practice concluded last Saturday for the Notre Dame football team, with a somewhat uneventful game that ended up with a 17-7 Blue victory over the Gold. We learned a lot of things about the upcoming Irish football team--they are good at quarterback and the running backs are as talented as they’ve had in at least a decade--but there are questions that continue to loom over them like dark clouds on the horizon. To be fair, spring practice isn’t the type of exercise…

Americans today tend to believe that the NFL is a great sport to participate in and has no flaws. But the NFL is a dangerous sport where the players often suffer from concussions. According to the Medical News Today, over 4,000 former football players filed lawsuits alleging that the National Football League failed to protect them from the long-term health consequences of concussions. Also just in 2013, 228 NFL players have been diagnosed with concussions that season, according to the league’s…

The opposing team had the ball. We were so nervous. If we didn’t pull this game of we would be done our season and we also wouldn’t be going to the championship. I knew what I had to do. I stepped in as linebacker right before they snapped the ball. The play was in action. The quarterback had nobody open so he ran himself. He dashed past just about my whole team. Finally it was just me and him. Before he tried to do a little juke move on me I went right…

Concussions in high school, college, and in professional sports are an intense situation because concussion can cause an long term effects on people. Like C.T.E is a Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy who has repeated brain injuries which it can affect a person impulsive or erratic Behavior or memory loss. C.T.E is a condition that a person has when it suffer repeated brain injuries and it can affect a person's behavior. But, C.T.E may occur years or decades after the brain injuries and also it…