Peyton Manning

The word old is a relative term. We commonly use old to refer to the leftover pizza from last week in the fridge, our eight-year-old car outside, and our ninety- four-year-old great grandmother who lives in a nursing home. From those examples, we defined old to be ranging anywhere from a few days to nearly one hundred years. Our definition of old varies from generation to generation, ethnicity to ethnicity, city to city, and even person to person. When it comes to defining old age and what…

Kinesiology and Sports Management and will also have a Business minor. I ultimately didn 't get accepted into Minnesota and withdrew my application from SDSU. Tennessee means everything to me. I get to be on the campus where Candace Parker and Peyton Manning attended and go to basketball games at Thompson Boling Arena. I get to live my lifelong dream. Even though my parents still aren 't 100% for Tennessee and my out of state tuition is a big…

The novel Quiet Strength by Tony Dungy, one of the most successful football coaches ever in the National Football League. From reading the novel I have attained many valuable life lessons that I could carry with me for the rest of my life. The lessons I have been taught are overcoming adversity, striving for you goals, and what it takes to become a champion. The book Quiet Strength is about a coach that had to overcome many situations because of his race and size. Coach Dungy started…

entertainment for everyone involved. In the last ten years or so avid fans of video games like League of Legends and Call of Duty, just to name a couple, have been making some substantial income playing competitively with players around the world. Just like Peyton…

We have officially entered thirty weeks being pregnant, the babies are really healthy and can’t wait to come out. That whole week Ryan and I mostly spent it getting ready for the arrival. We finished the nursery, got the stuff ready for that day and walked a lot to try and make that day come faster. Then the day came, I was officially 31 weeks pregnant and the babies just couldn’t take it any longer. It was a long birth, I got to have a natural birth and I was in labor for 29 hours. But my…

Around the world professional athletes are paid between hundreds of thousands dollar to millions of dollars to play a sport, whether its catching, throwing, shooting, passing, or hitting a ball. These types of money should be given to American who are contributing to our society. American like firemen. police officer, or soldiers are being payed less money who are risking their lives every day. Teachers who work five days a week grading papers, teaching new material, and provide instruction in…

Chris Kyle, a United States Navy SEAL that is labeled as the deadliest sniper in U.S. military history. Kyle served four tours in Iraq and is credited with over 150 kills and has been given numerous awards for his heroic acts such as two silver stars and five bronze stars. After being honorably discharged from the Navy, Kyle write an autobiography about the tours he served. A year after Kyle’s death, the film American Sniper was released. American Sniper is a biographical film detailing Chris…

In this day and age, there are many common household names that everybody in the United States would recognize, Tiger Woods, Lance Armstrong, Peyton Manning, just to name a few. But there is one name that holds a dear place in most Americans hearts, Rocky Balboa. Rocky is often considered one of the greatest sports movies of all time for a number of reasons. Rocky, played by Sylvester Stallone, is introduced as a collector for one of Philadelphia’s many loan sharks, who also happens to have a…

Serious head injuries is a major problem in youth sports, especially youth football. Many helmet companies have emerged and many have failed; creating an enigma around designing a safe helmet. Eventually a company will emerge as the first to crack the code at 100% safety, but is it something we want? A few helmets have made tremendous steps towards being totally safe are, The Revolution, The Xenith X1, and The Schutt DNA. Football player safety has been a silent fight. The staple of the…

full respect for Russell Wilson that I realized what gave the 12th fans something extra to scream and shout about. At first glance, one could say that Wilson was physically different in comparison to other quarterbacks such as Denver Bronco’s Peyton Manning and Carolina Panthers’ Cam Newton. Standing at a height of 5’ 11” whereas his opponents stood at 6’ 5”, Wilson’s height was described to be “his biggest inhibitor at the next level of football”1. Often times on television and during post…