...Pro Athlete Colin Kaepernick began refusing to stand for the national anthem. Many felt like Kaepernick could do it at a better time and was taking it too far. Do you think he took it to far by bring politics into patriotism? The pro athlete had not gone to far because people need to think about what he's saying, this was the best way to get what he had to say out, and other athletes have brought politics into patriotism before. People think he’s disrespecting the flag before they think about what he's trying to say. The flag is supposed to represent the people who fought for our freedom and rights. Some African Americans are treated differently and don’t have those rights. He’s trying to tell people he doesn’t feel equal, people ignore that and think he’s disrespecting the flag. According to the author, Tim Wendel, “It is our loss if we refuse to listen”. We only think he’s disrespecting the flag but not what he’s doing. If the flag represents our freedom then the people who treat African Americans are the ones really disrespecting the flag. We need to pay attention to what he’s doing and not what other think he’s doing....
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...structure of the Paralympics, that recognition can only go so Far. Paralympian would finally be seen for what they really are, true champions, and disabled people can achieve the same things as anyone else ( Harvey, 2015). In a combined event, medals won by para-athletes would contribute to their nation’s medal count that would perhaps be the most meaningful change of all one that already makes a difference at the Commonwealth Games. “With patriotism in play, the best physically challenged athletes would develop a fan base. Countries would invest more in disability sports to get ahead in the competition. And let’s be cynical: The media, which covers so few Paralympic events, couldn’t resist telling para-athletes’ uplifting life stories. So many heartwarming tales of redemption” (Paralympics, n.d). While proving disabled people can achieve the same things as anyone else, the Paralympic Games gives an equal opportunity for athletes to compete just like in the Olympics but even if a disabled athlete does well, the Olympics will still restrict athletes because of physical disabilities. Paralympics include traditional athletic events as well as categories like wheelchair racing and wheelchair basketball. The Paralympics seem a perfectly reasonable idea. They allow disabled athletes to compete in events better suited to their needs. They can highlight the bravery of some athletes who have overcome crippling injury or disease and gone on to train to a high standard. (Denis, 2012). Even...
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...many areas such as in business, economics, science, and pretty much every field in the world. Thanks to the tremendous advance in the information technology, most of the things existing on earth have changed to better. Sport also has gone through a big change through the application of IT. A compelling example that illustrates the change in sports is Beijing Olympics. The Beijing Olympics has been the most information intensive Olympics ever; Compared to the Olympics in 2004, use of the information technology in Beijing Olympics was increased more than 80 percent. According to the Beijing Organizing Committee for the Games, the technology takes the biggest portion in the entire budget of the operation of the Olympics. With the operating budget of 2 billion USD, the BOCOG’s spent 400 million USD on the application of the information technology. BOCOG decided to estimate this much of budget because one of the three main themes of the Beijing Olympics was to make is a high tech Olympics. The information technology is very important in Olympics for few reasons. One of the reasons is that its scale is unlike any other events. For example, the soccer world cup is a tournament that is loved by people as much as the Olympics. However, fewer athletes participate in only 64 games, and since they play only one sport, of course, soccer, the world cup needs only a single clock to monitor game time. In that way, requirements for data for the world cup is way lower that those of the Olympics...
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...it is over going home to house full of unpaid bills and a refrigerator that is empty. For many college athletes today this is a very real scenario. Student athletes from colleges across the country dedicate their whole lives to a sport and receive no compensation from the NCAA for their hard work. The NCAA, or the National Collegiate Athletic Association, regulates and controls all activity that has to do with collegiate sports. The NCAA is also responsible for resolving all complications in collegiate sports but is often ridiculed by many for neglecting the issue of paying college athletes. While some do believe that athletes are already compensated enough, others agree that these athletes deserve payment. This topic has sparked debate throughout the country and that is why currently the NCAA is working hard to find a solution. There are many reasons that student athletes should be paid, including: the NCAA and the rest of college sports is a multi billion-dollar industry, student athletes have no time for work to support their very active lifestyle, there is high injury risk that comes with playing competitive sports, and finally the added incentive for athletes to stay in school and the overall competiveness would rise making the collegiate athletics more enjoyable. First off, the NCAA and all of college sports is multi billion-dollar industry and the hardworking athletes deserve some compensation for their dedication to their sport. Games, tournaments, jersey and memorabilia...
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...the learning of the rules and skills of the sport and a sense of good sportsmanship and values. Some parents are losing sight of why these children are playing and that to the children is what they are doing “playing”. Many parents come to their child’s practice or game with their own agenda of win, win, win at all costs. The team winning, the points scored, who is the big scorer are the issues that have replaced fun and sportsmanship on the eyes of the parents. These unreasonable expectations of winning, not messing up, being the star player, and making mom and/or dad proud are everything to the kids. These parents expect perfection from their children, coaches and referees. It no longer is for the kids. Maybe Mom and Dad were promising athletes in their youth and for one reason or another were robbed of their hopes and are living their dreams through their children. The major problem seems to be that these parents are not considering what the children want. Kids want things like unlimited free throws until they miss in basketball, everyone having a turn to play, less violence in hockey, using their hands in soccer, and to have fun. Perhaps the parents should listen to the children on this issue. Originally, the purpose of organized sports for young children was to teach them the basics of the game and skills needed to play, to...
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...youth and professional athletes alike. Precautionary safety measures have been lackluster, and research on the issue, all but forgotten. With the advancements in technologies it is up to the authorities and more importantly the people to implement more effective means of safety, education, unyielding policies and severe punishments in order to protect the youth and professional athletes. A concussion is defined as a traumatically induced physiological disruption of brain function with a short period of altered or loss of consciousness, when a concussion occurs the brain is shaken in such a forceful way inside the skull that it causes injury. Concussion rates have doubled in this decade and account for 1 out of 10 of all contact sport injuries (Barton, 2008), the Center for Disease Control (C.D.C) has concluded that concussions in the United States have reached an “epidemic level” and there are between 1.6 and 3.8 million sport related concussions every year (Halstead, 2010) (Lincoln, 2011). Symptoms include but are not limited to confusion, headache, amnesia, nausea, sensitivity to light, double vision, sleep disturbances, loss of consciousness and were reported to be linked to more serious conditions such as, dementia, Alzheimer’s disease, Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy. Participation in high school athletics in the United States has regularly increased over the past 2 decades; there were approximately 7.5 million high school student-athletes in the 2008-2009 school...
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...Joseph Goring Mrs. Diaz-Cooper English 101, TTH 8:55-10:20 17 October 2014 Banning Steroids Steroids have been around in some form for a great deal of years. They have been used in all types of sports by professional and amateur athletes as well as people who just want massive muscle growth. Steroids have always played a major role in sports and sparked a great controversy of whether professional athletes should be allowed to use different forms of steroids or not. In Let Steroids into the Hall of Fame by Zev Chafets, the author discusses this topic of steroids being made illegal in professional sports. Steroids in sports have been frowned upon for years now as people see it as a way of cheating the system and having unfair advantages over other players. A topic that is commonly missed when talking about steroids is the health risks that it holds. People tend to focus on the performance part of steroids more than the deeper issue at hand which is, how will this affect a persons overall health? Steroids have been known to help peoples health in some cases but not very many. Steroids should be an illegal drug in professional sports due to the fact that the negatives by far outweigh the positives when it comes to peoples health. Steroids have always been used in sports but especially in the medical field. Despite all the negatives that steroids brings along, it can not be denied that many people have been helped by the use of steroids. Steroids when prescribed and taken...
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...What Does Marginality Mean? By Robert Murphy 8/11/2004 What does it mean to act "on the margin" or to think in terms of "marginality?" Economists use the term often. On the very first day of my principles courses, I teach my students that people make decisions "on the margin." Of course, this pronouncement is greeted primarily with looks of resigned boredom and/or helplessness. I try to clarify by saying that if we look at a piece of paper, the margin is just the edge, not the entire sheet. This explanation also does little good. The fact is, economists are so used to marginal thinking that they have a hard time explaining it to someone who's never heard of it before. And so what I do is jump quickly into some examples. The Water-Diamond Paradox The most famous application of marginalism is the solution to the so-called water-diamond paradox, which seemed to stump Adam Smith in his Wealth of Nations.[1] The problem is this: Why do diamonds have a higher exchange value than water, when diamonds are a mere frippery while water is essential to life? Shouldn't people be willing to offer more in exchange for a unit of water than for a unit of diamonds? The solution, of course, is that no individual is ever in the position of choosing between all of the diamonds in the world and all of the water in the world. A given choice is made on the margin. If offered a choice between a cup of water and a handful of diamonds, most people would pick the latter because the marginal...
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...saying that makes no sense in America, best translated by Babylon as “Fools rush in.” Who are the fools now? A far less remarkable issue, but vital to me anyway, is how we (I mean you, my non-readers) fail to hear the truth when it’s not said by a recognized pundit with millions of social media followers. It was far easier to spread the wrong notion that athletes and visitors would surely be contaminated by Zika at the Rio Olympics — an “official” truth for a while — than to read from yours truly that, in fact, there’s no contamination in the winter, which is now the official truth disseminated by WHO. Who? Oops. I apologize. Too late for too many of us. To my chagrin, the games in Rio are almost certainly ruined. Also ruined, by the way, are the aspirations of a number of athletes who have fiercely trained for four years in a row, having in Rio their last opportunity to shine. Who cares. What needs to be changed is the way we react, ready to accept anything we hear on the Internet (I heard that it was decided last week we should no longer capitalize “internet,” which makes a lot of sense, by the way). Let’s face it, only fools fall for the first rushed version of anything that hasn’t been thoroughly examined, and only “unthinking people” use their energy to spread around such questionable news to make us panic. I’m no exception. I also spread “news” around. And I panic too. The point is, I’m getting so tired of having my sensitivities routinely overstretched. I can feel it coming:...
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...Tommy Novak C. Kaiser English 111 11/3/2015 NHL and brain injuries Playing hockey often leads to brain injuries later in life, hockey injuries can be prevented by wearing safer equipment and rule changes can be implemented to improve player safety. All of the hitting and checking have gone unnoticed for far too long so many great athletes have been injured by someone else’s hitting and/or checking. A few of these injured players include but are not just limited to Sidney Crosby of the Pittsburgh Penguins who decided to take the 2011 season off due to lingering concussion symptoms from a hit. Patrick Kane, of the Chicago Blackhawks who suffered a broken collarbone, and Stan Mikita who has no recollection at all of ever lacing up the skate and playing hockey. And...
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...Cinderella Man Name Institution Date Cinderella Man (2005) is based on a true story of an athlete that attained his greatest success despite encountering the most daunting odds. According to the movie, in 1920s James Broddock happened to be a promising contender in boxing; he had the spirit, strength and tenacity, but the combination of his defeat by Tommy Loughran in 1929 and serious hand injury sent his career to a tailspin. As Broddock’s career comes to a stand still the Great Depression worsened things and Broddock found himself working for pitiful in New York docks as the only means to support his wife Mae and their little children. This paper seeks to give a reflection of the movie in light of the most preferred character and what the director should have done differently to create a better impact of the movie While conventional wisdom would have dictated that Broddock was out of shape and practice, and too old to have any chance of come back, his desperate plea with Gould his former trainer earned him a chance to face Baer at Madison Square Garden which marked his second come back. In a nation down beaten by the Great Depression Broddock’s comeback was like a tonic to the struggling workers and all eyes were on him as he took the heavyweight championship against Baer in what was his figurative and literary fight of his life. The character Mae, Broddock’s wife is arguably the most preferred character in that she helps bring good to a sad love story. She is seen to be...
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...right in the middle with flower beds all around the outside. All of the residents were sat in the living room with the carers watching the athletes at the Olympics on the television. The living room was very homely to make the residents feel comfortable, there was a big tall pink vase full with yellow and white carnations and a table in the corner with playing cards and monopoly on to entertain the old aged pensioners. One of the longest staying residents, Mrs Gladys Marble and one of the carers, Judith Simms were cheering away when Gladys started to tease Judith. Mrs Marble was a sweet innocent old lady who just liked to have a bit of fun, she was an ex-model, and Judith was a middle aged lady who had never married, had no children and lived at home with her mum when she wasn’t working. Judith and Gladys never really got on and they were always bickering and using sly comments towards each other. No matter what they were doing they were constantly at each other throats. They didn’t go even a day without having some sort of disagreement. Everyone in the care home knew they didn’t get on and were basically enemies, but Judith couldn’t do anything apart from leave her job if she wasn’t happy. Gladys had maybe taken the torments a bit far… Judith got very annoyed the next afternoon when she was taking the tablets to Gladys and she gave her too many and the wrong ones…. she gave Gladys six sleeping pills. Judith locked the door when the elderly lady was dosing off and she made sure...
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...Patrick Davis Red Bull 11/1/2012 Executive Summary Red Bull makes a premium energy drink for students, drivers, clubbers, business people, and athletes around the world to revitalize their bodies and minds. Problem: Red Bull, the leader in the energy drink sector of the soft drinks market, has seen its market share drop from 75% in 1998 to 47% in 2005. For the first time in the young energy drink sector, competitors have developed a legitimate share of the market: Hansen Natural’s Monster with an18% share and Rock Star with a 16% share. What actions need to be taken in order for Red Bull to solidify its market leader position? Answer: Red Bull should create a line extension offering either a diet drink to appeal to the recent trend of health conscious consumers or a new flavor while also changing their price point to be more sensitive to the consumer. By doing this, it will allow Red Bull to fight its competition in a very similar fashion to how they began to lose their market share (competitive pricing and a variety of options). Rationale: Red Bull has the strongest brand awareness in the energy drink segment which provides instant credibility to any line extension they may come out with. Red Bull has the extensive distribution network to make sure the product reaches the consumer no matter where they are. Market trends are currently in Red Bull’s favor as they show the customer wants options; giving Red Bull the perfect opportunity to develop a new product. Red...
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...It has been stated in each research source that hazing and particularly binge drinking is the most serious problem affecting social life, academic life, and health on college campuses today. The journal article pertaining to this issue, How Harvard’s College Alcohol Study Can Help Your Campus Design a Campaign Against Student Alcohol Abuse (CAS: Campus Alcohol Study for short), focuses more heavily on binge drinking and prevention than it does on the Greek system itself. The authors, Wechsler, Nelson, and Weitzman, contend that binge drinking is a nationally recognized problem but has not been studied efficiently enough to warrant effective prevention plans. The purpose of this article is to share with the public the results of a survey representing 50,000 students in 140 colleges, in 39 states. This is the first nationally representative survey of its kind and the analysis of its outcome by the authors of this article has resulted in seemingly sound prevention ideas. To begin interpreting the binge drinking phenomenon, a solid understanding of the term must be presented. Binge drinking is defined by all the articles as consuming five or more drinks in rapid succession (four or more for women) at least once in a two week period. Shockingly, the College Alcohol Study (CAS) found that two out of every five college students binge drink. The authors of this article argue that binge drinking has negative effects not only on the drinkers, but also on the entire student body. The binge...
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...Spider-Man® “with great power, comes great responsibility.” This applies particularly to professional athletes, who, to an extent, experience even more pressure directed towards them than politicians, due to the constant exposure under the limelight and the demand to win from fans all over the world. Expectations towards young and talented professional players are tangible; family, peers, community and agents are only a fraction of the people lining up to share in the fruits of success. Needless to say, this recognition comes with the assumption that they will have a share of the athlete’s financial earnings. So how do these players react to such vast demand and how do they perceive money and its use in different aspects of life? Sports Illustrated published an article in 2009, which shows that on average, 78% of former NFL players go bankrupt within two years of retirement, and about 60% of former NBA players are penniless within five years of ending their career (Torre 1). How is this possible? What are the crucial factors that drive successful athletes to lose all their money, and more importantly, is there a way to avoid such stalemate? “We always felt like if you looked good, played good, they pay good. That was our philosophy” (qtd. in Corben). This is a quote from Keith McCants in Broke, an episode of ESPN’s acclaimed documentary series 30 For 30, that examines professional athletes’ financial behavior and reasons leading up to the substantial amount of sports retirees that are...
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