Violence in sports

kid asks to play a sport let them, don’t force them to, if you want your daughter/son to have a good education there’s your answer. It’s important that kids play sports because if they play sports they will have a good education and if they work hard they could be something big. I believe that kids should do more of sports because they can have a healthy life and have a good education. To begin, if kids stick with sports and believe in themselves they could get far with sports. For instance,…

To be or not To Be: Should Sports be allowed in Schools? Recently, there has been speculation within the education community as to whether or not sport programs should be allowed to continue as an extracurricular activity. Typically, any high school in the country has a team for any and every sport available. However, there have been arguments, such as the one made by Amanda Ripley in her article: “School Should Be About Learning, Not Sports” that suggest sports programs do not benefit students…

collective conformity of that era. Highly regulated and individually constraining individual sports forms were weakened for some people by the individualized nature of contemporary society. The 1960’s and 70’s produced a large amount of youth based alternative sports cultures that wanted to provide alternatives to traditional, highly regulated achievement based sports forms. In 1978 Bourdieu described “Californian sports” as being creative, athlete- centered, noncompetitive unregulated and an…

INTRODUCTION Injury prevention is an essential aspect in the services athletic trainers can provide their patients. Strengthening muscles, improving balance and coordination, and increasing flexibility are all measurable outcomes that can be achieved by the athlete. Despite these efforts to prevent injury, assessing and predicting injury in athletic populations is not an easy task, as several variables need to be taken into account in order to obtain an accurate prediction. One such variable is…

Whether it’s swimming, baseball or soccer, youth sports can be a great experience for children as it is a fun way to get them active. Sports have many good advantages for kids who are involved at an early age. They learn to develop helpful skills including living a healthy lifestyle in the future by regularly exercising and developing social skills. It allows kids to have fun with other peers especially in the summer during break. Youth sports is very important as it develop various skills,…

technology a kid is surrounded with, the drive to participate in some kind of sporting activity outweighs the electronic draw. This seems true if the activity is fun. When it becomes too competitive, after the age of 13 kids find other activities and sports can get sidelined. All over the world children find ways to play. The fear of virtual reality taking over the actual physical experience has thus far gone unfounded. As a whole, humans want to move and feel sensations that are not satisfied…

any promotions made toward children will automatically assume a greater amount of people due to the parents or guardians that will be accompanying the children. Third, children are energetic and optimistic of sports. Regardless of hockey or basketball, children often develop a loyalty to sports…

everything I do. I want to study Sport Psychology as I know I possess the right skills to further and develop myself in the career of sports. I have the ability to understand others in sports as I also play sports myself. I have been in high pressured sporting situations which I have used my psychological skills to help increase my performance. What interests me in Sport Psychology is that I can make a big difference to not just my life but the lives of people in sport such as rehabilitating…

Public Financing of Sports Stadiums “Never support public financing of a sports stadium. You as a taxpayer are virtually guaranteed to lose that game.” Over the past few decades, the debate over whether or not sports stadiums should be publically financed has caught more attention with tax payers. Many financial economists have come to agree that publicly financing sports stadiums is a bad investment. The public should not provide financial support of sports stadiums because they have little…

The thirst for a win, the hunger to become number one, the desire to be known and talked about long after the game is over, craving the opportunity for bragging rights. Whether they are playing in little league, high school, college, or nationally this is what consumes the thoughts of boys and girls who participate in athletics. They have practiced hard and studied the plays. Now as a coach, it is their job to lead these athletes and teams down victory lane. It is now the coaches’…