Major League Soccer

In ‘’Top five Reasons why baseball needs a Salary Cap’’ it says,’’Despite Major League Baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred's recent suggestion that his sport has great competitive balance, any fan of baseball knows that just isn't true. There are always exceptions, but generally, the teams that spend the most money in the sport on…

remembered Alexander a Negro League player. According to Encyclopedia of African American Society, it stated that, “Upon Alexander's advice, Robinson contacted Kansas City. The team signed him to a contract that paid $400 a month.” Earning money and playing the sport he loved was his motive. That kicked his career as a professional baseball player. His experience at UCLA and Pasadena Junior College that allowed integrated teams that made Jackie disappointed of the way Negro leagues players…

MORGANTOWN, W.Va.--Graduation is a special moment a young adult's life. It is a moment that he or she waits four or five years for. Maybe more or less depending on the situation. But some student athletes don't get the pleasure of walking across the stage in front of their family or friends because of the sport they participate in. That rang true for the West Virginia University baseball team. On the day that several Mountaineers were supposed to receive their diploma, the team was finishing…

Usage of Steroids Within the NFL and the MLB Steroids and performance enhancement drugs, PEDS, have been banned in the National Football League and in Major League Baseball since the early 1980’s and readjusted in the early 2000’s (Kelley). Players’ know about the stipulations of which exact drugs are allowed and which are banned within their league, but still ten NFL players were banned within the 2015 season for the use of PEDS (Performance Enhancing Drugs in Sports Fast Facts).…

My favorite hobby is playing softball during school ball and ASA ball. You can learn to play softball by joining a team and practicing on your free time. Softball can be a difficult sport if you don’t listen; you’re not going to know what to do if you don’t pay attention. When you play, you want to be able to play multiple postitions so that you don’t have to sit the bench. I was taught to play all positions but my main posistioins are shortstop and centerfield; if you are fast you will play one…

One of the biggest scandals in sports history was in 2000 when the Paralympic Spanish basketball team competed posing as intellectually deficient players when in fact they were not, to fraud the Paralympics. From up until 1996, athletes who had learning disabilities were not able to participate in the Paralympics. There were campaigns in place that encouraged the committee to include these individuals, and eventually it gained massive recognition and led to the inclusion of these athletes.…

“The lack of money is the root of all evil”- Mark Twain. Salary caps should not be put on MLB contracts. This became a problem actually just this past year. The reason being the MLB thinks that the 200 million dollar contracts are too much. The MLB doesn’t think 5 to 1o million dollars less will affect the athlete’s lifestyle. The MLB should not input salary caps on contracts. The main reason being the athletes wouldn’t try as hard. Another being the sport itself would become less interesting.…

Part of the aura surrounding Ruth arose from his modest origins. Though the legend that he was an orphan is untrue, Ruth did have a difficult childhood. Both his parents, George Herman Ruth, Sr., and Kate Shamberger Ruth, came from working-class, ethnic (German) families. Ruth, Sr., owned and operated a saloon in a tough neighbourhood on the Baltimore waterfront. Living in rooms above the saloon, the Ruths had eight children, but only George, Jr., the firstborn, and a younger sister survived to…

Jane Zuroweste Ms. Davis College Prep English G2 18 April 2017 The 1985 World Series It was an abnormally warm October day, October twenty-sixth, 1985 to be exact. Two Missouri teams are practicing for World Series Game Six, the Saint Louis Cardinals and the Kansas City Royals. It was the second time in history that two Missouri teams faced each other in the World Series. The Cardinals were up in the series three-two, they just had to win that night’s game and they would become the 1985 World…

Lack of representation in key coaching and management positions within franchises is an another problem the league has. While nearly 50 percent of the league consists of nonwhite players, very few of them hold a position outside being a player, this includes Latinos, African Americans, and Asians. This past season started with one African American manager, one Latino manager, and one Japanese manager, but by the end of the season the Latino one had been fired. This underrepresentation is not a…