United States men's national soccer team

what they do even though they spent most of the time on the field during their college career. According to NCAA, only 1.3% of men’s basketball players go professional and 1.6% football players continue their careers in NFL (Wilbon, Michael). For comparison, only 0.9% women’s basketball goes professional, for baseball, 9.7%, for men’s ice hockey, 1.2%, and for men’s soccer only 0.7%. So, the chances are low to become a professional and start earning money for what you were doing since college…

In recent years, college sports have become extremely popular in the United States. Sports enthusiasts watch the games, buy the apparel and cheer on their favorite players; much like in professional sports. But there is one big difference between college and professional athletes. Unlike professionals, college athletes should not paid. These student-athletes go to college to get an education, not to be paid to play a sport. Through scholarships, many athletes are already being compensated for…

Sport in the United States have a very long histories of racial and ethnical rejection. Unfortunately, sport has a lots of racial and ethical issues that causes an inequality, discrimination and diversity. This issues are increased because of emigration that bring people from different race and culture to live together Some racial groups pf people who have their own believes, participate on sport only to precise their race and culture and valuate their potential as athletes. Many people has been…

The game of basketball would not be around today if it wasn’t for one man, his name was James Naismith. James was born on November 6, 1861 in Ontario, Canada. He was born to the parents of John and Margaret Naismith. When James was only nine years old both of his parents had died, leaving James an orphan. This was a very rough time in James’ life. After becoming an orphan, he was raised by his very strict grandmother for a little bit, and then his bachelor uncle. While growing up James enjoyed…

they enabled women to play sports for health improvement, create new identities and enter male-dominated areas. After the implementation of Title IX, written by U.S Representative Patsy Mink and passed by Congress in 1972 which states that "No person in the United States shall, on the basis of sex, be excluded from participation in,…

now he is proving it through the stats in his ice hockey career. He is on the St. Louis Blues, and is a right winger, who has the most points on his team. He is from a city in Russia, called Yaroslavl, where he first learned how to play the sport of ice hockey. This is his sixth season with the St. Louis Blues and his sixth season in the National Hockey League. Vladimir Tarasenko was born in Yaroslavl, Russia (The Soviet Union collapsed that year), on December thirteenth, 1991. He is the…

investigation by the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the Internal Revenue Service Criminal Investigation Division (IRS-CI)they were being arrested and investigated for wire fraud, racketeering, and money laundering. The investigation revolved around the collusion between…

2006) . These views that society has on how a woman should look, leads to a lot of athletes having eating disorders to maintain or achieve that image. Studies showed that female collegiate athletes were generally unaffected when weighed with other team mates but, the frequency of their self-weighing had a relationship to females having eating disorders or irregular attitudes to eating (Carrigan, Petrie & Anderson, 2000). Societies standards of an ideal woman, take a toll on female athlete’s’…

Due to the increasing popularity of college sports in the United States, individuals have begun to question whether college athletes should be paid like professionals. But college athletes are students and amateur players, meaning that college athletes are not given money to play a sport. Student-athletes attend college to get an education, not to be paid to play a sport. Already compensating athletes for playing are scholarships. Also, paying athletes would cause countless problems. Some…

changed that mentality of many people. In 1967, Switzer, without knowing opened the doors for many young ladies, and opened the pathway for women to fight sexism in sports. “In 1967, the Boston Marathon was Wednesday, April 19, Patriots’ Day in the state of Massachusetts. I thought it was neat that folks in Massachusetts got a special holiday commemorating the young American patriots who fought the British in the first battles of the American Revolution. The marathon was made part of Patriots’…