Professional sports

money for playing a game they love, and because they should show support for their teams and their country. This is also a way for professional athletes to show respect and to honor the country that has provided them with so much. Grayson Kelly best summed this up, “Playing sports for a career is a blessing in itself.” As he stated at the end of his article.(Professional…

The sports industry altogether provides quite the attractive earnings, coming in roughly around $14.3 billion in a year without the immense quantity of economic activity caused by the Super Bowl Sunday, in addition to the mass amount of jobs it creates as well. A large portion of these earnings come from one sport in particular- professional football. However, in order to keep up with our Nation’s rapid population growth, what more can be done to add-on and cultivate the mass amount of earnings…

between going professional in their sport or perhaps risking an injury that can potentially hurt there playing time in their sport. According to the article “College Vs. Pros: Should Athletes Leave School Early?” Clary gives us the pros to why athletes should leave college and go straight to their professional career as well as the pros of staying in college and receiving your degree before beginning a professional career. Clary states that, “leaving school for a professional sport allows great…

aspect of sport and health, but, it also compromises fairness. As the use of performance enhancing drugs is becoming more common, whether the performance enhancing drugs is unavoidable in sports has sparked a heated debate. My point is that I do not agree with the performance enhancing drugs are unavoidable in sports, because of many athletes who do not use drugs also get a useful result. Also, the use of performance enhancing drugs is morally wrong and it should be prohibited in sports. First,…

. The average American earns little over $65,000 dollars a year. A professional basketball player in the NBA will earn $5.15 million each year. A baseball player in the NLB will make $17.9 million in only five short years. These athletes spend their entire lives playing games because it is what they truly love to do. A professional football player makes 20.1 million dollars a year in the NFL versus a Radiologists paycheck, which is $315,000 a year (Youn). The average teacher makes almost…

Talent identification has long been of great interest to sports coaches and administrators. This is especially true for professional sports. There are various reasons for this, principal among them being prediction of success in competition, determination of appropriate development processes to achieve success and the most efficient use of material resources. Early identification of future elite performers would give a competitive edge to any organization that could identify the best prospects.…

Drug Testing for Athletes Some pro athletes take drugs such as steroids to have an unfair advantage in their sport. Steroids are a drug that makes you build up more muscle. When your muscles get torn down, steroids help build them up. This helps so you can build up muscle faster than usual. Professional athletes should be drug tested because it could boost their play, it would make them stop using drugs or to never start using them, and it could also cause unhealthy side effects. First off…

five Olympic athletes have been caught doping. Let that sink in. This means that on average, for each Olympic event, only one athlete who medals is also clean. Such widespread consumption of performance enhancing drugs (PED's) throughout dozens of sports and nations makes this a topic that must be promptly addressed: the integrity of athletics is at stake. Some may argue that tightening regulations on PED's would be ineffective and a major waste of time, claiming athletes will forever…

We believe that sports should be cut from the school budget. They are bad for the students by the pressure they can bring,the possibility of a concussion, which causes kids -to miss school, and it can rob a kid of his childhood memories. The students are able to get a scholarship by playing sports. Only two percent of kid’s become professional athletes (Business Insider). That means out of all the football players at MTMS only eight percent may be offered a scholarship. It is even less than…

Sports psychologists study athletes to find out what motivates them to keep playing and pushing. In order to effectively treat an athlete, a sports psychologist must first be able to identify the issue that the athlete is having, whether it be a personal issue going on at home, a motivation issue, recovering from an injury, regardless of the severity. Essentially, sports psychology combines a passion for psychology and sports medicine to conduct research and apply their finding to treat the…