Sports terminology

Billie Jean King once said “Sports teaches you character, it teaches you to play by the rules, it teaches you to know what it feels like to win and lose- it teaches you about life”. Being part of a sports team, we experience competitiveness, commitment, and perseverance; being involved in something that requires us to compete in these situations teaches us success, dedication, leadership, failure, and hard work. The more we grow as a person, the more we realize that not only can those qualities be applied to sports, but they can be utilized in life scenarios. Female high school athletes are three times more likely to graduate than non-athletes. With that being said, sports can teach a variety of success. High school or college sports add the importance of grades. To remain eligible we need to maintain a…

Tahlequah High School Soccer Soccer is one of the most played sports by adolescents in the United States, it ranks third in female youth sports. Organized woman sports teams started in nineteen-seventies and ever since Growth of women playing soccer has dramatically increased. The total number of American high school soccer players has more than doubled from the nineties. thanks to Americas national sports team ranking highly and video games like FIFA, Soccer has become one of the fastest…

Softball What started out as a men’s football game in Chicago, Thanksgiving day of 1887, lead to the greatest women’s sport, softball. At the end of the Yale football game, brooms were being used as “bats” to hit boxing gloves that were being thrown. There may be a lot of women’s sports, but what makes softball the best of them all? Is it because it was a sport that generated from one of the manliest sports? Or was it because of how it has changed tremendously throughout the years? Years ago…

The word inflammable is a word commonly used wrong in society, since it has been confusing for years. Inflammable has been dated back to 1652, being used in Medieval Latin. The word comes from the latin word inflammare (www.dictionary.com). Merriam-Webster says that the word inflammable means easily inflamed, excited or angered. Inflammable should mean to easily catch fire, or become angered. Inflammable can be used for a product that can easily catch fire, even though it is most often put on…

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I enjoyed these two poems, I like how the two poems are both about sports, because i am a big sports fan. They both compare two athletes but in very different perspectives. So these poems compare and contrast. They compare because they both deal with town athletes. In each poem each athlete is young and somehow saves their town with their skills.So they both look like heroes to everyone else. But also both the athlete’s careers are cut short. So that’s another thing these poems share. Each sport…

The article “Athlete Impression of a Character-Based Sports Program for Underserved Youth” written by Bean, Whitley & Gould (2014), examines the impact of a youth sport organization in developing life skills and character in youth. Research has been conducted previously on small recreation or sport based programs and also programs put on during school. Although, little has been done to look at extra-curricular activities outside of school and their effect on life skills development for the…

Playing sports is a wonderful thing, and if you are on a sports team you get to travel to different places and meet new people. Sports are good for a lot of things, for example; you are exercising in a fun way, and you can hang out with friends. Playing sports are a great way to learn many skills that you are applicable to life, and it is one of the best way to learn sportsmanship. Playing sports in high school not only gives a break from studies, but also gives incentive to get good grades so…

is really scary. When it occurs in an organized sport that is supposed to be a safety haven for an enjoyable activity then it can be a tragedy. If the proper equipment is utilized then the risk of injuries decreases and safety is improved. Children or teen-agers that get injured while playing an organized sport may benefit from rules and regulations that are designed to protect players. Many of the injuries that can occur are very dangerous, sometimes even life-threatening, and can possibly…

profession is commonly known as ‘eSports’, but I would argue that it qualifies as a regular professional sport due to demands on the human mind and body, the viewer base, and player as well as team sponsorships. “But they’re sitting down!” you might say, “its just a game!” you might say. But rowers sit down.…