The Rookies

In sports all around the world, everyone wants to be the highest paid professional athlete and all the fame that comes with it. The world famous sport is soccer because the rules are easier and more commonly played but in our American world of sports the game of American football is the most watch and very popular. The National Football League has been Americas sport for the past 80 years and since the 21 century it has skyrocketed. College football hasn’t been as big as professional football…

Duncan's death ("The raven himself is hoarse/That croaks the fatal entrance of Duncan/Under my battlements"), Macbeth in Act 3 echoes his wife's imagery in planning Banquo's murder: Light thickens; and the crow Makes wing to the rooky wood: Good things of day begin to droop and drowse; While night's black agents to their preys do rouse. For a short time during the banquet scene with the appearance…

Research has suggested that police corruption is a continuing problem in South Carolina and therefore it is an ongoing issue in Berkeley County’s Hanahan Police Department. This issue has three key parts. The first is Failure to charge Sheriff Wayne Dewitt for resisting arrest which shows a potential issue with ethics in the department. The second part is the fact that by allowing him to stay in office for an extended time the Department may or may not have given the impression of an acceptance…

NBC Sunday Night Football has been a growing tradition for NFL fans over the past 10 years. NBC offers primetime games every sunday night usually featuring marquee teams and a great broadcasting crew. The NFL even offers flex scheduling between weeks 5-17 to ensure quality matchups. In turn, NBC usually pulls in between 20-25 million viewers per game, ranking them in the top 2 most viewed game per week. In light of this, I decided to watch a Sunday Night Football game as part of my media…

When working on important project, whether it be how to write a paper or how to construct a building, it is important to plan ahead and lay out a blueprint in order to have a sense of direction as to where one should be heading in a middle of the project. Group effort and diverse thinking is crucial in the process of creating the roadmap; narrow mindedness within a group will only facilitate thinking of one option, whether good or bad, as confirmation bias only encourages a decision to be made,…

Bald Eagle Times #58 Music in WWII To the faithful readers of the Bald Eagles Times: In contrast to the other recently published articles, this is not your typical war story. In fact, it is not even directly related to the war. It is actually a story of the evolution of music leading up to and even throughout the war. Music, it is safe to say, is what kept the nation together. It gave us a fallback which we could all enjoy, regardless of our situation in life, race, or economical status. In…

Over the course of year a retail company will lose thousands of dollars a year due to shoplifting and internal (employee) theft. Many companies will hire a staff who are trained to monitor and take action if necessary when it comes catching a shoplifter. Over years retail companies have seen many changes when it comes to theft. Shoplifters have got smarter in the ways they steal from a company. Even though we still see some shoplifters coming in and conceal one item and walking out the door.…

looking for a superstar to put the NBA back on top of the professional sports mountain. They believed, along with many others, that they had found it in LeBron. James lived up to the hype in his debut. It was noted that he “played better than most rookies could hope for in a debut game—and better than any rookie straight out of high school—with twenty-five points, nine assists, six rebounds, and four steals” (UXL Newsmakers). Throughout his time in Cleveland, LeBron would encounter many tests…

How has the Use of Virtual Reality Impacted Training in Sports? The great football coach of the University of Alabama, Bear Bryant, once said, “It’s not the will to win that matters – everyone has that. It’s the will to prepare to win that matters” (Roberts 2012, n.p.). Anyone who has ever played a sport knows that the key to success is practice, practice, and more practice. Most athletes train for countless hours trying to figure out new ways to perfect the skills that they have already…

professional league. Rather than finishing his senior year of college, he decided to enter the NFL draft. Doughty was eventually picked up by the Kansas City Chiefs in the 2007 NFL draft, and his future looked very promising. As required, NFL rookies must take mandatory tests to diagnose any injuries within them. Unaware of any injuries, Doughty thought he’d be clear to play. Unfortunately, his X-rays showed he was playing with a cervical spine injury, and a hit could paralyze him for life…