...Madison Moore Mrs. Kampa Eng 121 1 March 2016 Football Players Need Yoga When most Americans hear the word 'yoga', they think of a petite girl in a ponytail and leggings, carrying her purple yoga mat. This image has become so completely part of the culture of American yoga that the general response when suggesting yoga as a training method is either "That's for girls," or "But I'm not flexible." These responses were generated by an overall ignorance regarding yoga as a practice. Imagine, for a moment, a very large and muscular man with the soles of his feet together on the ground in butterfly pose. Now imagine that one man in a large room with twenty men much like him in the same yoga position. A scene like this is the new normal; entire sports teams and all other types of athletes are realizing the benefits of, and therefore adapting yoga to their training programs. Yoga is no longer just a class for women who want to feel more "grounded", but reformed into a vital tool for athlete training. The most notable effects can be seen in high-strung, often injured, National Football League players who may not be the first to say "Here!" on a yoga role call. The athletes, however, will experience benefits, such as quicker healing injuries, future injury prevention, and finally the creation of a more balanced mind in an athlete, which are just a few reasons yoga should be adopted as mandatory training in the NFL. While some players may feel reluctance due to the "girliness" of the...
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...The National Football League consists of two conferences, the American Football Conference and the National Football Conference. These conferences consist of 32 teams are divided into four divisions. The NFL players union was first formed as a result of poor conditions involving health care and threats to a player’s livelihood in the event of injury. Over time several events were instrumental in establishing the essential benefits that players have today. This paper will outline background information on the NFL while identifying some legal issues that the organization may encounter while determining which federal, state, or local laws could be affected as a result of these legal issues. Recommendations to minimize possible litigation will be provided along with addressing the organizations benefits of joining a union along with detailing the unionization and bargaining process and the effects this has on the organization. Professional football has become the most prevalent sport in America and the NFL has become the most prized sports enterprise in the world. The league sold more than 17 million game tickets in 2008 and an estimated three-quarters of the American population watched at least one NFL game on television (Shmoop Editorial Team, 2008). The NFL season culminates with a championship game; The Super Bowl held in February and has become one of the most popular happenings in American pop culture history. This has not been always the case. During its inception in...
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... NFL Play 60 is a campaign designed to tackle childhood obesity. Introduced in October 2007, by the National Football League, NFL Play 60’s goal is to make the next generation of youth more active and healthy by encouraging young fans to be active for at least 60 minutes every day. The NFL has dedicated over $200 million to the health and wellness of children, while also implementing in school, after school and team based programs to get children excited about being active. Childhood obesity is a national epidemic. The current generation of children is projected to be the first generation not to live longer than its parents. Only 8 percent of elementary schools provide daily physical education which has led to 33 percent of children in America being obese or at risk to be obese. NFL players from around the league have donated their time and money to encourage kids to get active. Cam Newton of the Carolina Panthers just recently did a commercial promoting the campaign as well. Players from the Washington Redskins, Baltimore Ravens, and Miami Dolphins also supported NFL Play 60 by participating in the Annual Easter Egg Roll at the White House. The players taught children that attended football skills and did some football drills with them as well. Factors that Influence the NFL's Social Responsibility A variety of factors, including education, health, and community, define NFL Play60. The school environment understands the importance of promoting a healthy community...
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...College of Health and Life Sciences Department of Life Sciences Division of Sport, Health and Exercise Sciences SP 1804 Introduction of Physical Activity Health and Wellbeing ASSESSED COURSEWORK Part 1 Essay Part 2 Conference Reviews STUDENT ID 1541706 WORD COUNT ESSAY 2000 WORD COUNT CONFERENCE REVIEW 1 1000 WORD COUNT CONFERENCE REVIEW 2 1000 Study Block Leader Dr Louise Mansfield Within this essay I have demonstrated a clear understanding of the ways that physical activity can contribute to physical, psychological and social improvements in health and wellbeing. According to World Health Organisation, WHO, Physical activity is defined as any bodily movement produced by skeletal muscles that requires energy expenditure, (WHO, 2015). There are various concepts on health and wellbeing and remains a complex subject but according to Claude Bouchard, Health is a human condition with physical, psychological, social dimensions, each characterized on a continuum with positive and negative poles. Positive health is associated with capacity to enjoy life and withstand challenges; it is not merely the absence of disease. (Bouchard, 1990). Wellbeing is often described as a sense of good feeling and functioning well, this includes having a fair share of material recourses, influence and control, sense of meaning, belonging and connection with people and the capability to manage problems and change. (Wellbeingenterprises.org.uk, 2015) The human body has...
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...Apple Inc. (“Apple”) as a market leader in the technology industry remains appealing to its loyal fan consumers despite the death of Steve Jobs. The fact that Steve Jobs rescued Apple from the verge of collapse has actually made him a spiritual leader of Apple and part of Apple’s product attributes. The return of Jobs to Apple in 1997 marked the successful execution in the company. He stopped licensing program, moved manufacturing to abroad and the most courageous move was to move the products into retails. Despite other competitors’ success in total different business models, Apple was thinking something beyond not just simple sales in a store but the “foot traffic” it can create. Finally, today we are sure that in any of the Apple stores, people are not just coming for buying products but also visit the stores out of curiosity and want to take part in merriment which also draws more people in. In this way, Apple stores are doing something beyond sales but also image, brand, enjoyment, trend, curiosity and accessibility of products etc. Looking behind the scene, Apple’s success could also be attributable to the strong leadership of Steve Jobs in building a cohesive team with the technicality to reliable designs and quality products, the obsession with simplicity but yet sophisticated featured products. Rather than having prototypes or previews of upcoming products, Apple purposely releases their revolutionary products that have been kept completely secret until they suddenly...
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...National Football League Players Association Jim VanHatten HRM 531 July 25, 2012 Sandra Akbar National Football League Players Association This is a paper discussing the effects of the union on the National Football League Players Association (NFLPA). Specifically, four topics will be addressed – the benefits of joining a union, the unionization process, how the union bargains, and the effects union bargaining has on the NFLPA. NFLPA’s Benefits of Joining a Union The initial reasons for beginning to unionize were to get paid for playing in exhibition games and filing lawsuits against the NFL. Players were not paid to play in exhibition games. In addition, in 1946, National Football League (NFL) owners created a rule that banned players for 5 years if he switched leagues to the new All-America Football Conference (AAFC). Players still switched leagues for increased salaries. After switching leagues, Bill Radovich was banned by the NFL and filed the first lawsuit against the NFL with the help of Creighton Miller. More on this lawsuit later. Miller, a former player and current lawyer, helped form the NFLPA in 1956. Miller fought for minimum salaries, league paid uniforms and equipment, and medical benefits. Throughout the years, the NFLPA has fought for these and additional benefits like better health insurance including dental, pensions, revenue sharing, free agency, etc. The Unionization Process The process of unionization took some time for the NFLPA. The...
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...Assignment for Course: MGT 5015 Legal, Ethical, and Social Values of Business Submitted to: Dr. Frank J. Cavico, J.D. LL.M Submitted by: James Jones N01456933 Date of Submission: March 12, 2013 Title of Assignment: Integrating Values – The Legality, Morality and Social Responsibility of, “Is it moral for the University of Notre Dame to pay their college football players?” CERTIFICATION OF AUTHORSHIP: I certify that I am the author of this paper and that any assistance I received in its preparation is fully acknowledged and disclosed in the paper. I have also cited any sources from which I used this data, ideas of words, whether quoted directly or paraphrased. I also certify that this paper was prepared by me specifically for this course. Student Signature: Jill Burgess *************************************************************** Instructor’s Grade on Assignment: Instructor’s Comments: Table of Contents Introduction Many students who are currently active players for their university's football team are struggling to make ends meet. They simply don't have the funds to buy new clothes, tools for education, or even food not supplied by the university. To make matters worse, the NCAA has created policies restricting players from pursuing avenues of being compensated for services. These policies make living situations for many of the players very uncomfortable. In business, there are...
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...College Athletes brings about 12 billion annually and one billions to the NCAA, but where that money goes? Do athletes deserve that money? Basketball and football are the main sports in colleges and the visits had increase. Meanwhile, college athletes should not get paid because they are not forced to play, they already receive scholarships, and not all college sports bring money. First of all, college athletes should not receive salary with the fact that they play voluntary. Students decide to involve in sport world with the purpose of getting experience for their future. A member of NCAA, Horace Mitchell describe that “Student-athletes are amateurs who choose to participate in intercollegiate athletics as part of their educational experience”...
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...Blasting blow after blow can take its toll on all football players. Every play demands contact against the opponent. With excessive contact and collisions at rapid pace, no human being can withstand the effects on his body. Football demands full attention and effort because of the constant intensity it requires. The games demanding focus results in split second decisions such as sprinting in a certain direction or lunging to make a tackle. Spectators watch the demanding hits players take and deliver each time the ball is snapped. These crucial hits over time create problems for players currently playing or years after his career. It is no secret for fans watching that these players face tremendous pain through gigantic blows causing injuries...
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...FSU Winner Florida State’s Caitlin Quinn has been named the NSCA’s Assistant Strength Coach of the Year. http://www.seminoles.com/sports/w-softbl/spec-rel/112613aaa.html Critical Condition A California high school football player is in critical condition after suffering neck and spinal cord injuries during a game. http://www.pe.com/local-news/riverside-county/corona/corona-headlines-index/20131124-santiago-football-player-remains-in-critical-condition.ece State Total More than 4,400 middle and high school student-athletes in Massachusetts suffered head injuries last year, according to reports filed by the schools. http://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2013/11/25/mass-schools-report-head-injuries-among-athletes-compliance-with-concussion-law-rises/njPFK6a92knIhcvY9UGxdN/story.html Refueling Product A new product can allegedly help athletes refuel during competition by providing precise carb and electrolyte recommendations based on a quick analysis of their sweat. http://www.prweb.com/releases/FuelstripMMA/UFCBellator/prweb11284260.htm Vegan Praise Several top athletes credit veganism with playing a key role in their success. http://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/health/elite-athletes-reveal-the-vegan-diet-secret-behind-their-success/story-fneuzkvr-1226768537898 Baseline Challenges Three new studies of baseline testing highlight the difficult of accurately assessing an athlete’s true baseline ability. http://www.momsteam.com/studies-show-pitfalls-in-baseline-neurocognitive-testing ...
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...social responsibility than most of football clubs. It is the most successful football clubs in the UK. Its goal is to build corporate communities by motivating, educating and inspiring the future genrations. Compared to gilligham fc, in the last 5years , it has established cohesion projects that target young people.it uses the appeal of football to offer young people a safe environment and help them develop their potentials in football. According to (United, 2013), Manchester football club aims to reduce crime cases by providing op[opportunities for youth involvement, encouraging personal development through volunteer works, promote active participation in other sporting activities as well as football and educate young people about making the right lifestyle choices. It started its community cohesion with a project developed by the premiere league and metropolitan police. Since then it has developed short and long term projects that suit the needs of communities. There is identification of participants as young as 8 to 19years old who have very little home stability, are unemployed or are surrounded by poverty. The project operates We currently operate 6 separate cohesion projects that cover 13 sessions of a 2-3 hour duration for 48 weeks of the year. The sessions operate in the evenings and weekends when other services are not available and when the need for diversionary activities is at its highest. Sessions are free and include football and alternative activities such as music...
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...Essay 1 Rough Draft Competitive sports can have many positive effects such as health, fitness, and learning positive values such as sportsmanship, but should competitive sports be mandatory within our school systems, i think not. Competitive sports have been around for centuries. From the Roman empire with wrestling or the Native Americans with games such as Stick Ball or Winchishkin. Competitive sports can have positive effects such as fitness and personal health, but are those effects not also possible results of Physical Education classes or for the schools that have it, Personal health classes or if the students simply exercise? The debate on whether to make competitive sports mandatory in high schools has been a topic of debate for...
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...Imagine a 240-pound professional football player stretching his sweat-drenched body to its limits in heat of more than 110 degrees. This scene doesn’t take place on a football field, but in a heated Bikram yoga studio where many athletes and everyday people are going to cure and prevent aches and pains. Yoga, as a way to achieve higher self-awareness, was around as early as 200 B.C. in India and has been gradually growing in popularity in the western world over the past four decades. Traditional styles of yoga, including Hatha yoga, which consists of thousands of poses, have long been studied as an effective form of complimentary or alternative medicine (CAM). The biggest yoga boom has occurred over the past decade according to statistics from the International Association of Yoga Therapists. The Association estimates there were 20 million Americans practicing some form of yoga in 2002 compared to 6 million in 1994. Increased awareness of yoga as a healing method along with high-profile celebrity endorsements have contributed to the growing numbers of yoga users recently. Madonna and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar are some famous yogis that have been students of Bikram Choudhury, who founded his own style of hot yoga in India. Dina Lancour, a Hatha yoga instructor from Agawam, Massachusetts, took a Bikram yoga class under Choudhury. “It reminded me of Indian sweat tents,” Lancour said. “It becomes very meditative and deep.” Proponents of Bikram yoga and medical specialists...
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...My father asked me this morning what I like most about myself. After a young lifetime of remembered and forgotten experiences, I am more than a laundry list of attributes and anecdotes. I can’t pull out a statistic from the spider web of interrelated knowledge and understanding that makes up who I am at this moment. I can only describe a process, the best process I know of that has developed my aspirations, desires, and subconscious tendencies. The one process that has defined who I was and became, has been football. I played football all through middle and high school. I started playing it as just another sport. I was always a very active kid, and played as many different sports as I could. Originally I loved the fast pace of the game, and that it afforded me a chance to hit other kids without penalty. Over the years, however, football came to mean more to me than a free-for-all arena. Especially by the time I entered high school, football was a community: the most important community in my life. Simply through getting up early day after day in the summer for grueling 2-a-days, and continuing that effort to just show up, battered and bruised, day after day, to get better and help my teammates achieve success, I forged myself a niche. The wind sprints, bag drills, lifting sessions, and hitting drills were, in a way, ways to achieve a sense of place for myself that I could feel like I earned, and that people respected. Not only was I working with others to achieve a similar...
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...Did you know that a hit by a college football player these days can cause a serious injury or maybe even death? The targeting rule in college football makes an attempt to prevent these kind of hits. The targeting rule's only intent is to make the game safer for the players and the players' future. One hit above the neck on someone who cannot defend themselves could and a player's future. The targeting rule in college football should be kept due to player safety and player health. College officials and the rule itself have proven that the targeting rule makes the game safer. Johnson states, "the rule, passed by the Football Rules Committee in February and approved by Playing Rules Oversight Panel in March, addresses the committee's concern...
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