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- 111: Diamonds Are My Best Friend
- ... game. Baseball is a game of numbers. I look at statistics as stockbrokers look at the Dow Jones report. I remember being thirteen years old, getting the newspaper every morning, and immediately flipping to the sports section to see the latest averages and league leaders. There was a point in my life when I knew the batting average of every current player within four points. I would look forward to hearing Harold Reynolds and Karl Ravich on Baseball Tonight on ESPN to see how well all the teams had fared in the night s matchups. I still enjoy the simplistic pleasures of picking up the sports page and seeing how my favorite players performed the previous day, even though I do not keep track of statistics as I once did. I read baseball literature quite often. I own copies of Bunts ... crazy. My father and I were cheering, as were all the baseball fans around the world. It didn t matter whether you were old, young, male, female, die hard baseball fan, or just an occasional sports viewer; this was history. In the midst of all the commotion, I sat down and thought for a moment: This is one man, playing a simple game he s loved since being a child, ...
- 112: Performance-enhancing Drugs -
- Performance-Enhancing Drugs - - Artificial Entertainment? At a press conference in April, representatives from various professional sports joined together to discuss the effects of performance-enhancing drugs on their particular sport. Unanimously, the representatives decided that these drugs take away from the purity and natural skill of the sport, and should therefore be declared illegal in all professional and division-one college sports. This rule may go into effect as early as April of the year 2000. It is true that these enhancing drugs give athletes an opportunity to refine their skills, but who is suffering? Assume a ... expectancy of the user. Each substance present in the drugs is produced naturally in every healthy person. Assuming that by the year 2001, all performance-enhancing drugs are made illegal in professional and division-one sports, athletes will simply have to be more careful in hiding their use of the drugs. Very few athletes will recognize the rule, and those that do will be the ones who suffer. There are ...
- 113: Personal Seat Licenses
- ... have better views, preferred parking, indoor/outdoor options and higher quality food and beverage service including a wait staff. Luxury seating alone is a tremendous moneymaker and is the second most important revenue stream for sports franchises behind television revenues. The most talked about of the three has become the personal seat license. Personal seat licenses are a relatively new revenue source. They give fans the right to buy a season ... amenities and benefits including the right to transfer your long-term season-ticket rights, sometimes for a profit. Stadium revenues come in a variety of ways, and in today’s world of professional and collegiate sports, they are the key to profitable teams. This is why many team owners claim they cannot afford to keep teams in old stadiums without the tremendous earnings potential of special seating and other stadium income ... if slightly devious device that allows teams to raise large amounts of cash in a hurry. Typically, the money is used to help cover stadium improvements or construction costs. It has worked well in professional sports, and the colleges have seen that. It just makes sense it would filter down to intercollegiate athletics. The concept of PSL’s has been spreading through collegiate athletic departments over the last few years. ...
- 114: The Advantages Of Creatine For
- ... One athlete in this group of test subjects improved his best time in the 100-meter sprint by two seconds. In 1993, a study peer reviewed and published in Scandinavian Journal of Medicine, Science and sports (Balsom 143) demonstrated that Creatine supplementation could significantly increase body mass (in only one week) and that it was responsible for improved performance in high-intensity intermittent exercise. Over the past 4 years, at least ... champion athletes began using Creatine. Now champion athletes and bodybuilders around the world swear by Creatine's effects. WORK CITED Balsom, P. "Creatine Supplementation and Dynamic High-IntensitIntermittent Exercise." Scandinavian Journal of Medicine, Science and sports 3 (1993): 143-149. Bamberger, Michael. "The Magic Potion." Sports Illustrated 4 (1998): 58-61. Carlson, Mike. "Creatine Safety Record." Men's Fitness 10 (1999): 40-42. Carson, Mike. "The Creatine Carb Connection" Men's fitness 10 (1999): 43-44. Casey, A. "Creatine Supplementation ...
- 115: A Separate Peace - Artificial Vs. Natural
- ... me. Don't say anything about it, to...anyone." (Finny Pg. 36) He didn't want attention, he just wanted to see is he could break the record. Finny believed that : "Everyone always won at sports. When you played a game, you won, in the same way as when you sat down to a meal you ate it. It inevitably and naturally followed." (Gene pg. 27) "Finny never permitted himself to realize that when you won, they lost. That would have destroyed the perfect beauty which was sport. Nothing bad ever happened in sports; they were the absolute good." (Gene Pg. 27) Finny's attitude towards sports is similar to his personality as a whole. He was innocent and never caused anyone harm purposely and believed everyone was the same way. When he told Gene that he wanted to participate in ...
- 116: Mandatory Physical Education I
- ... E. classes available, which meant approximately 120 students attended in these classes. The remaining 1013 grade eleven and twelve students had no Physical Education at all. This is an astonishing figure. “Many students participate in sports and recreation activities outside of school, but most of them get hardly any exercise at all. There needs to be a place where students can get some sort of exercise and physical activity” (Eberhardt). School ... exception of basketball, had to be cancelled because of the lack of participants. Eventually basketball also had to be cancelled as players stopped attending during the season. The question that arises then is, were these sports offered as full-credit courses? The answer is no. It would seem that the government would rather invest their funds on other areas and emphasize the importance of academic subjects. Academics are vital but so ... Physical education provides a combination of physical, intellectual and social challenges that other subjects such as physics may not provide. Although the physical aspect is the most dominant, it is not necessarily the most important. Sports such as basketball, volleyball and hockey help in developing and refining gross motor skills and improve coordination. Muscular strength and endurance are also enhanced, while flexibility is also improved through the participation of sports. ...
- 117: Prejudice
- ... but I feel that I have experienced prejudice in my life because of my size. Here are some of the experiences of prejudice that I have experienced. Sometimes, I have felt prejudice against me when sports teams were being chosen. It seemed as if captains would look at me and decide that I was fat, wouldnąt be very fast, or be very good and not choose me. In fact, I play hard and am fairly good at several sports. I feel like I can make a strong contribution to a team, and am hurt when captains donąt want me on their teams. In fact, there have been times when I have gotten on ... to be on their team again and the fat prejudice is broken. Because I have experience prejudice myself, and have been hurt by it, I try to avoid treating other people that way. Especially in sports, I try to give everyone a chance to prove themselves. Being the object of prejudice was very stressful for me, but I try to set up my own teams or play hard on whatever ...
- 118: Muscle Growth
- ... going out to visit a friend can be done from the comfort of your own computer. With this sedentary lifestyle, muscular size will almost be unnecessary, except for the athlete who wants to succeed in sports. To the non-athlete, there will be no reason to leave the house because everything that you need will be at your fingertips, you will not have to get up and do anything. Any type ... side effects in the body, which include: increased aggressiveness, increased acne, development of facial in women, development of gynecomastia (breast like tissue) in males, just to name a few. Steroids use is most prolific in sports such as bodybuilding and professional football. Even though these sports have their own testing programs very few athletes are ever caught using steroids, or other growth hormones. It is estimated that approximently 90% of players in the NFL, and approximently 99%-100% of professional ...
- 119: Drugs In Football Making An Ap
- ... setting a bad example for the youth of America. There is just too many available drugs for football players today. For football players, drugs are easy to obtain. Too easy to obtain. Bill Gilbert, a Sports Illustrated writer, said, "they do not have to stand around in waiting rooms, at pharmacy counters, or on street corners for their fixes. Drugs are brought to them, and usually provided free of charge. The ... He also estimated that around 20% were addicted to cocaine. That is around 274 players. He concluded that 10 players in each team were hooked on cocaine "(Harris 11). Another controversy in all of the sports world is that of whether steroid use should be accepted or not. There are many pro's to taking steroids, but too many con's. Steroids are physically enhancing drugs. They are derived from the ... also achieve a quicker recovery. Of course, if the muscle mass in increased, then the body weight will increase. If the athlete is using steroids secretively, then they will have a high prestige among the sports world for being strong, good looking, and vigorous. There are very few pros's compared to all the con's of using steroids. Just a few con's are: increase in acne, mood swings ...
- 120: AFFIRMATIVE ACTION
- ... disadvantage justifies a reason for racial preference. “In athletics, in spite of past discrimination blacks have excelled, not because standards were lowered but because barriers were eliminated” (Curry 115). Blacks set their standards high in sports and that’s why blacks dominate in athletics. When youths apply the same effort in academics the results are the same; all minorities and non-minorities have the same opportunities, some simply work harder for ... minorities fail to compare with early ancestors. What cannot be stressed enough is effort. All it takes to achieve is to put the same effort in academics like minorities do in other things, for example sports. This type of effort can make all the difference in the black and the Hispanic society. Affirmative action has a huge negative impact on our economy, affirmative action is costly, futile, and worst of all ... disadvantage justifies a reason for racial preference. “In athletics, in spite of past discrimination blacks have excelled, not because standards were lowered but because barriers were eliminated” (Curry 115). Blacks set their standards high in sports and that’s why blacks dominate in athletics. When youths apply the same effort in academics the results are the same; all minorities and non-minorities have the same opportunities, some simply work harder ...
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