...Change Our Lives Kevin M. Davis Strayer University ENG 090 Writing Fundamental Ms Monica McGoldrick January 12, 2011 When I was a senior in high school, football was my life. I consider myself to be a pretty good defensive player. Georgia Southern College had just opened up their new football program and I wanted to attend there as well as play football for them. However, I did not know the application process of applying to Georgia Southern College or any other higher institution of learning. Instead of me asking for help via my high school counselor, football coach, or my parents, I never pursued my Dream of going to college or playing college football. Therefore, college plans took a backseat in my life and job hunting became my priority after graduating from high school. As I began my job search, my neighborhood peers always talked about pursuing employment as a Longshoreman located at the Georgia Ports Authority in Savannah, Ga. Becoming a Longshoreman was known to many of us in my neighborhood as a good paying job with benefits such as medical/dental insurance, union association protection, workmen’s compensation, etc. I was then sold on becoming a Longshoreman until one day; my father came home and spoke with me about college again. He stated he knew a Lieutenant Colonel at Fort Valley State College who was the head instructor over the ROTC program. My father explained to me the application process of completing the college’s application and returning it to...
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...What American High School Football Teaches the Youth Cooperation to Reach a Common Goal A high school football team has players coming from different socioeconomic and ethnic backgrounds. The athletes are in various shapes and sizes. But, even with their differences, they must work together to win. They must put aside their personal beliefs and cooperate to attain a common goal. Adults who have played football know that working together with others can make their business or career successful. Group effort trumps individual effort at all times. People who want to succeed must learn to cooperate with each other. Struggling against Adversity American high school football helps people how to overcome adversity. A football team, and even its members, struggle against all kinds of adversity every day. During a game, a player can get knocked down and beaten for a touchdown. The manner by which he...
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...MANCHESTER UNITED FOOTBALL CLUB LINXIU ZOU/12422048 17/03/2014 TUTOR: DINUSHA BOTEJU STRM047 STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT 2598 words 1. Introduction Manchester United Football Club (MUFC) is one of the world’s biggest football clubs with more than £363 million in revenues. Facing an intensive competition, the survival and growth of MUFC relies on its core competences in order to obtain competitive advantages in such fierce markets. Being a leader in upscale industry, it stands in a unique position, but still faces competitions from its rivalries. The objective of this study performed a value chain, VIRO framework, Five force, and PEST analysis, identifying the internal and external environment of MUFC, the core competences of MUFC, the strategic directions and the implantation of the key strategies, the objective is to improve the efficiency of MUFC and achieve the football club industry sustainability in future. 2. Identifying and assessing MUFC’s competences Through examining MUFC’s competencies and performance in discrete activities, we can inferentially assess its overall competency. Parthasarthy (2007) stated that successful companies must possess both entrepreneurial and operational competencies. Thus, value chain is adopted to recognize and evaluate operational competencies (Porter, 2012). 2.1 Value chain Figure 1. Value chain of MUFC Value chain analysis facilitates MUFC to identify its competitive strengths and cost position. Figure 1 shows that MUFC’s...
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...Should College Football Players Get Paid? Many have questioned whether college football players should be getting paid or not. Micheal Gonchar’s blog, “Should College Players Get Paid?” questions if it’s fair that the only ones not getting paid are the players. College Athletes are put in the position to work hard on the field and to also keep their academics up to par. It’s not easy balancing in being a full time student and an athlete, their commitment has to be to the sport and school. While college staffs and universities make millions and college football players only get $550 worth if they even happen to make it to the AT&T Cotton Bowl. I believe that college football players getting paid is not a good idea. Getting paid would be a plus, but I believe that if the football player has a passion for football and enjoys playing football then money shouldn’t matter. Getting paid may cause these players not to give it their all. Today football players put their hopes up to make it to the NFL and the big check that comes along with it. By them getting paid in college would just defeat the purpose of working hard to strive for that goal. Getting paid in college defeats the purpose of what college really is, people go to college for their education and to prepare themselves for jobs in the future. Paying college football players will ruin college athletics because if college football players are getting paid they will no longer dedicate their time to the sport and it would defeat...
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...Tackle the Concussion Battle Within Football? Introduction The National Football League (NFL) or as some people may say, “Not for long” is responsible for some of the greatest athletes. Excellence appears to be their one goal, which is to win Super Bowl championships. Some players perform at a high level for a while, whereas others don’t have a chance at experiencing actual playing time on the field at all. NFL players are less and less likely to have a definitive long-term career in the NFL. On average their career may span for about 3 ½ years (Stradley, 2011). (Workman Pub Co, 2002) The NFL has added several new teams, provided innovative equipment, additional rules, distinctive playing styles, but most importantly there has been a revolutionary change of the NFL culture. The game of football is being played at a faster pace and players are becoming larger, and intelligent (Wharton, 2011). While the sport of football can be stressful, competitive, entertaining and enjoyable, it also poses a dangerous threat of injury. One of the more common injuries within playing or watching football are concussions. Over the past few years concussions have become a more serious endangerment to those who play, from new evidence we have seen on the effects on the brain and how it can affect a player’s future. The purpose of this project is to investigate the current status of football and concussions in finding a solution to reducing head trauma in players as it pertains to the following areas:...
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...Playing football as a kid was always every little boys dream of one day becoming a professional player in the NFL. Suiting up in cleats, shoulder pads, and helmets was always a fun time. Back in high school when the coaches would make you have two a day practices to get ready for the fall. In the back of the players minds, and even their parents is the idea of a very bad injury or even a concussion. What is a concussion you might ask? Concussion is a temporary unconsciousness caused by a blow to the head. The term is also used loosely of the after effects such as confusion or temporary incapacity. Concussions can be very difficult to spot especially since plays don’t necessarily have to be knocked out in order to receive a concussion. This is why players who suffer from head injuries are often told to shake it off and get back in the game. Many concussions in high school go undiagnosed due to lack of staff, player, and family knowledge about concussions. Being able to recognize a concussion is the first step in protecting athletes. Ways to recognize a concussion that has either been knocked out or still conscious would be if a player feels dizzy, confused and forgetful, complains about headaches, and/or vomit or feels nauseous. Concussion symptoms can either occur right away or in some cases they can begin weeks later after receiving the hit that caused the concussion. Concussions have been around since the beginning of time even out of sporting events like Football. Times have...
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...Money laundering in football - lessons for the sports industry on Wednesday, 21 December 2011. Hits 2915 Written By Kevin Carpenter[->0] Money laundering in football is not a new phenomenon but the poor financial health of world football overall has lead to increased scrutiny in recent years by leading organisations such as Transparency International ('TI') (the world’s leading non-governmental anti-corruption organisation) and the Financial Action Task Force (‘FATF’) (an independent inter-governmental body that develops and promotes policies to protect the global financial system against money laundering and terrorist financing). Indeed TI has suggested that, ”Vulnerabilities in the sector's financing and due diligence practices, culture and structure are seen…as creating an environment conducive to money laundering by organised crime.“ The concerns have been compounded by two recent high profile cases in the UK then this makes it a good time to analyse this ever present threat. What is money laundering and why is football a target? Money laundering is the process by which proceeds of crime (so called "dirty money" or “criminal property”) are changed so that the proceeds appear to have come from a legitimate source. The proceeds of crime is money, or other assets, that have been acquired or generated through criminal activities in the UK or abroad. There are three main areas of vulnerability in the football sector which can be identified: The sector’s structure – market...
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...0 Executive Summary Every January the National Football League (NFL) presents its premier sporting event (the season final) of every year in a major city of the United States. 2.0 Situation Analysis 2.1 Market Summary Rookie Bowl could be operated as a pre Super Bowl event which is worth more than 4 million. Nowadays, events like Super Bowl, NBA All Stars are becoming a big market of advertisments and a deep pool of winter money. Budweiser, as beer brand of the U.S. is a suitable sponsor of all beer beverage provider at the stadium. Automobiles manufacturers, Network carriers (AT&T, T-mobile, or Verizon) are eager to release their special ads for this special event. H&M released its new advertisement that starred by David Beckham about Men’s underwear at the break of Super Bowl this year. As we can see here, although Rookie Bowl is a smaller scaled competition but it is still constituted by League players who are encouraged to become famous at such a night by performing a wonderful game without saving their efforts. 2.2 SWOT Analysis 2.2.1. Strength First of all, it costs less than operating a big event like Super Bowl. It costs less to broadcast by various TV broadcasters, like CBS, TNT or ABC, one or two specific broadcasters or cable companies can license the live. Secondly, it still attracts a lot of audiences because it is played by League Rookie players who mostly drafted from College football teams. People would like to enjoy more furious competition...
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...patriotism. Sport at its core was a “social technology”, something that would create culture and bring people together. In the late 1800s to the early 1900s, a period of time known as the Gilded Age, sport particularly became a symbol of national strength and unity. Sport was used to “Americanize” the influx of immigrants and create a culture of good men who held values similar to home-grown Americans. Football in particular took hold in most colleges as a way to pull more students to their universities and gain a higher amount of alumni support. Yet football was especially...
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...by doctors’ moments ago, he re-enters the game on offense as the Cardinals attempt to win the game.” Concussions are becoming a huge topic in all four major sports leagues, The National Football League (NFL), Major League Baseball (MLB), National Basketball Association (NBA), and the National Hockey League (NHL). Most of the concussions do tend to happen in football or in hockey, but even boxers, professional wrestlers, Mixed Martial Artists (MMA), and soccer players have been diagnosed with concussions. “Over 250 current or retired athletes - including 50 NFL players and 12 hockey players - have pledged to donate their brains, including Keith Primeau, who retired from the NHL in 2006 due to post-concussion syndrome” (McIlroy and Mick). That itself is a pretty crazy number and that is just in the past five years. That kind of shows how committed to fixing and understanding the concussion crisis is upon us. Concussion protocols in all sports needs to be redefined. There have been concussion protocols for the NFL and NHL that have been put into place since the frequency of concussions started happening. Teams across the nation and even world have started to employ neurologists for when a player gets a concussion so that the proper steps are taken. Usually a player has to sit out if he has failed a part of the concussion test. Recently an Arizona Cardinals player named John Abraham had his first serious concussion. He had gotten to the point of possibly retiring because he was...
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...Everybody has seen or played sports once in your life, you could have even gotten injured from high impact sports. Maybe even a serious injury like a concussion. From reading the article “Hard Knocks” it really helps you understand about how sports are very dangerous, especially football. High impact sports have caused many long term health effects like concussions and CTE. First of all is how high impact sports has caused concussions. “Concern over concussions has filtered down from the NFL to colleges, high schools, and youth leagues…”(pg.15). This quote shows that now all ages are getting concussions which is not good because it could affect the in the long run. “A typical high school football player receives about 650 hits to the head...
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...1.0 Abstract Artificial turf is becoming increasingly more commonplace within football. When studying artificial turf versus natural grass turf research can be split into three areas; Injuries, Play Style/Game Play and Player Impressions. The aim of this report is to look into these three areas to assess the effect that playing surfaces have on the game of football. Many studies into the risk of injury on artificial turf compared to natural turf have come to the same conclusion. They have found that for the most part there isn’t a significant increase in risk of injury on artificial surfaces comparatively. However it is suggested that there may be an increase in ankle injuries due difficulties when turning/twisting on artificial turf. This...
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...The Direction of Sports As a sports fan I am concerned about the directions sports have taken. Sports in general have been headed in the wrong direction for some time now. They still have a lot of time to change. They need to act quickly though if they want to solve the problem. Every major sport seems to have a problem. Baseball had their huge problem with steroids, basketball has a reputation of its players being thugs, but football seems to have no major problem. Many of these problems have not only affected the leagues, they have affected the youth all across America. Like the problems the solutions are very diverse. I love all sports, and I would hate to see them become disgraced. Baseball which is my favorite sport has had the most trouble in the past couple of years. Their decline started with the steroid scandal involving Barry Bonds. When a player that big in the game is going after a cherished home run record and there are scandals surrounding it, there is going to be some turmoil. It wasn’t just Barry Bonds fault and the people involved in the scandal, it was also baseball officials fault for not doing anything when they knew about the things going on in baseball. They turned their back to the problem because at the time baseball was doing well and they didn’t want to disrupt that. Baseball was forced to act because of the scandal. They put in a steroid policy that was laughable compared to the steroid policy of the Olympics. Baseball would like...
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...coaches style of coaching will also be rated on the SLMII. Forming The first stage of Tuckman’s model in the film occurs when the black athletes are in the gymnasium ready to meet Coach Herman Boone (11:00). In this interaction the athletes have come together for the first time, they are unsure of their roles on the team, they are unsure of what to expect from each other, and they are unsure of what to expect from their new coach, Herman Boone. The newly formed group’s tentative attitude about roles is shown when Boone questions Thomas “Petey” Jones about whether or not he likes football (11:20). The uncertainty of roles is also shown when the old head football coach William Yoast disrupts Boone’s meeting with the black athletes by entering in with the white players (13:25). Coach Yoast does not know how this confrontation between him and Coach Boone will play out. The white players in this scene are equally unsure as they come into gym. The end of this phase occurs when the team is shown walking into Gettysburg College for camp (18:10). In this scene the team is shown walking as a group. This is the first time we see them grouped whites and blacks together as a team, which signifies they have finished the forming stage and can now move on to the storming stage. The team in this phase would be classified as development level 2 (D2) with respect to the SLMII. They have low to some...
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...concussions throughout their career in sports. In the last 3 years in high school football 400,000 concussions occurred. Concussions are a problem, at times is hard to detect, because the symptoms are sometimes hard to spot and in many cases symptoms can last for day, weeks, years and even life time. Through study they found that adults can heal faster than young athletes, and they can heal in just two weeks. Sport concussions are becoming bigger problems in all sports and researchers are trying harder to find how concussions occur, how to prevent them to make all athletes safer while playing and how to make sure all athletes are safe to play after a concussion. One way to help preventing concussions is to understand how they occur. Fist a concussions is defined as a complex pathophysiological process that affects the brain, typically induced by trauma to the brain. A concussion happens when there is trauma to the brain. Trauma can happen when you take a blow to head region. It can also happen when you get something called the whiplash effect to the body. The whiplash effect is when the impact to your body accelerates your head causing the trauma to your brain. With contact sports there are many ways concussions can occur. In any tackling sport, without proper tackling technique, the player can hurt not only the one they tackle but they can get a concussion from tackling. With football a lot of players are taught to lead with their head with can cause head to head contact and that’s...
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