United States women's national soccer team

are the fans that have a favorite team and truly care about how the team will do throughout the entire season. When you watch TV and see the fans without shirts and paint from their foreheads the whole way down to their belly buttons in below freezing weather, those are the die-hards. Tailgating at eight o’clock in the morning for a game that is not until later that…

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…

presented an argumentative article, “Sorry, Cheerleading is not a Sport,” which opened a pivotal argument on cheerleading being classified as a sport. Roenigk states that all cheerleaders are athletes, but cheerleading should not be considered a sport. Why is this? Roenigk claims that sports teams are made to compete, to go against another team to win, not to entertain the crowd. Although Roenigk tries to persuade her audience that cheerleading does not fall under sporting guidelines, she…

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’…

These male victims are being shamed. The National Domestic Violence Hotline states on their website that “[a]ccording to the CDC, one in seven men age 18+ in the U.S. has been the victim of severe physical violence by an intimate partner in his lifetime. One in 10 men has experienced rape, physical violence, and/or…

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’…

alone by Robert Putnam is primarily summarized as our disengagement from the involvement in our communities. Putnam describes to the reader a decline in the civic engagement initially through our politics, particularly in the decline in “turnout [of] national elections over the last three decades,” “attendance [of] a public meeting on town or school affairs,” and “attending a political rally or speech, serving on a committee of some local organization, and working for a political party.”…

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…

priestesses, one of the most respected positions in society. They were confident and strong leaders. Women thrived in history. In the Eurasian Steppes, women were found in the nomadic burial sites with tools and even with weapons! In some instances, women’s social roles were higher than men. Women were warriors and their roles weren’t confined. No one limited their potential and society valued women. They were not treated as ‘property’ and birthing children was not their sole purpose. Biology…