Professional sports

Professional sports to middle school athletics you will find Thousands of reports of concussions. Sports are only small part of it. Many reports also come from bicycle accidents, car accidents, and falls. The increase of concussion reports have raised 15% annually, tons of research is being done to help prevent this injury from happening but the brain is a very hard thing to protect when it comes to hard contact. “CTE or Chronic traumatic encephalopathy is a very rare condition was discovered from individuals in the brains of people who played contact sports, such as football who took numerous shots to the head lead to brain injury. At first they believed to be limited to just boxers and no other athletes.” (Medical News Today) Boxers soon discovered a concussion with men who received many shots to the head in boxing would feel slightly drunk and hazy. They started calling it…

Article Review 1 For the first article review of the semester I read Chris Smith’s “Why lt's Time To Legalize Steroids In Professional Sports”. Within this article Smith insists that using performance enhancing drugs, steroids, and doping should be made legal by sports leagues because many athletes have and are currently taking them so by making the use of these treatments lawful it will level out the playing field among athletes. Smith also says that “Not only would the playing field suddenly…

We often find ourselves watching professional sports on the television. Such as the Super Bowl for the NFL, or the World Series for MLB, but what if we removed those sports. I say that we completely abolish all professional sports in America. I’m sick and tired of all the entrails that they leave behind. Riots are started because of them. Fights break out and people get hurt. People are kicked out of stadiums for good. And for some reason people think that they need to streak across the field…

Steroids have brought more attention to professional sports, making athletes bigger and better leading those sports to be more exiting, bringing in more fans to sporting venues, while increasing revenue with ticket and jersey sales. What do the people want? Spectators want sports to be more competitive and exiting. So why are their unlawful limitations on players getting their body's into tip top shape however they can? There are unfair rules set down by the professional leagues, limiting…

Professional sports are sports in which athletes receive a disbursement for their performance ("Definition of Professional Sports in English” 1). Professional sports originated in the United States during the mid-nineteenth century. According to the article “Beginning of Organized Sports in America,” this distinctive league was “formed on capitalistic ideas” and soon developed into a nationwide phenomenon. Sports play a substantial role in cultures across the globe. In America, the success of…

Numerous people who enter a sports complex are there for a couple of different reason. These reasons can include such aspects of the fan experience as the nostalgic feel of the stadium, for the enjoyment of the competition, or even take their children to their first ball game. One of the lower concerns of the fans that come to these games are the face-to-face interaction that they have with individuals who are serving them their food. In order to be able to watch the entire game, these…

I think it’s not cool to use PEDs in sports. Even though it has been shown that taking these drugs improves performance. I remember an old Gatorade commercial where it talks about how Gatorade originated with the Florida Gator football team. Toward the end the narrator says” those boys drank that stuff and they became a second-half team.” Gatorade helps with endurance but it’s not a drug. It replaces fluids and electrolytes during physical activity. It’s legal. It doesn’t make you bigger,…

In the United States, regardless of the type of sport being played many people often enjoy watching and cheering for their favorite sports teams. People that share an affiliation and passion for a certain team come together to watch their teams perform either in person or on the television. And forming a bond with a specific sports team can also become a way for people to identify with places they live or have lived at one point in their life. Even in cases where there exist bitter rivalries…

Professional sports leagues and Domestic violence. Domestic Violence: Are Professional Athletes Getting Off Too Easy? Have you ever heard of Ray…

grown over the past decade, the financial means for athletes and each establishment associated with sport has become more complex than ever. From determining the payroll in professional sports, to figuring out what amount of money is budgeted for each sport at a high school or collegiate institution, has opened doors and become a new field of opportunity in itself. This paper will examine and explain the business of sport and recreation by analyzing the economic models in various sports and…