Professional sports

The average sports star gets paid an average of $4 million dollars per year (ESPN). Sports stars generally get paid more than a person who has an average job. By examining highest paid athletes, the average American citizen budget, and how much the salary cap is going up, sports stars are getting paid too much money. The highest paid athlete’s salary has increased greatly in the past 25 years. Jason Alsher, a sports writer for a website called The Cheat Sheet, said that Floyd Mayweather was the…

Soccer is a physical sport where two teams face each other for over ninety minutes. During matches, players are subject to strong emotions that stem from competition. As in any sport taunting, or actions to affect the opponent’s psyche are a part of the game. Many things are said by players on the field as the games progress. Marco Materazzi’s comments refer to these behaviors on the pitch. We do not believe that FIFA should investigate any offense on the field because existing rules and…

Ryan dungey and ken roczen are both motocross racer but they are still very different. Ryan dungey and ken roczen are very different when is comes to there amature careers, pro careers, win but pretty similar when it come to teams they have been on. Ryan dungey and ken roczen had very different amature careers. Ryan dungey is from minnesota and had it easy as an amature career while ken roczen was from germany. Amature motocross is mainly in the unites states so ken roczen was not in the…

got so many injuries he couldn’t even open a water bottle. They also get so many injuries, and not just small injuries, that they need their money to pay for the super expensive medical bill from the hospital. And there are so many more injuries in sports than other dangerous jobs out there. So, since they are going into their next game knowing they might get a really bad injury, they should really get all the money they…

Performance Enhancing Drugs Athletes taking performance enhancing drugs is just like sitting in school taking a test and not be able to figure out the answer to a question. All of a sudden you see your classmates cheating, by taking out their phones and looking at each other papers. Many athletes who witness their peers taking drugs feel as if the said athletes are cheating their way to the top. When a bench rider suddenly rises up to star-player, many questions arise. The use of performance…

Role models can be viewed in many different aspects, its just dependent upon the individual. A role model can be literally anyone or anything. Some people may look at their favorite sports athlete or the president of the United States as an example. Other individuals may even say people like a deranged serial killer like Charles Manson or evil fictional characters like The Joker or The Green Goblin are their models of aspiration. Like these people, I also have two entities that I look up to…

lost everything, your family, friends, children, and your job that helped you care for your family, all to drugs and all for what? Just a little painkiller that turned into a major addiction. I postulate that painkillers and steroids used in any sports event should be prohibited. I can not even begin to get close to all the wrongs in this topic. Some of the reasons include, cause for addictions, cause for emotional and present day scars, and it leads major league player down the path of…

performance enhancing drugs fundamentally change the spirit of sports. Sports are contests of character, but when you use drugs to get an unfair advantage, the integrity diminishes. Using performance enhancing drugs to gain an advantage violates the idea of “Spirits of Sports”. Using PED’s takes away the aspects of cooperation and teamwork. Sports are an extension of our personal ethics, and it brings out your true colors. In sports winning becomes such a priority that it overshadows your…

There have been many people throughout the world that have affected the world and the sports world in many ways. Michael Jordan is a person who has greatly made a difference in athletics and has been an inspiration to people. Some ways that he inspired people and made a difference in more than just sports are that he is hardworking, competitive, and he was also charitable. The first reason he is a world leader is because he is hardworking. He played basketball since he was a kid and he…

earn that matters. It's the fact that you know you’re beating your previous PR’s and getting better. In the sport of track and field there are two different categories of runners, sprinters and distance runners. Sprinters are usually classified as anyone who runs a 100, 200, and or a 400, while distance runners are 800 meters and up. While both sprinting and distance running have the same sport revolving around them, they are different in terms of muscle usage, injuries, and training. While…