...Sports Are Not Too Intense For Athletes As the season goes on and the record is getting better and better a team learns discipline and how to play as a team, then they start to play as a family. Many people think that sports are too intense for children. They think that there are too many injuries and deaths that come out of sports. Lots of parents are scared or nervous about their kids playing sports. Yes, there are injuries but playing on a sports team teaches athletes many things. While sports cause injuries, all of the benefits that come out of sports when athletes play them override the risks of getting an injury. First, there are many good effects when playing sports. Young athletes get a lot of positive outcomes out of sports. “Young athletes develop physical skills and learn how to play as a team and how to work as a team” (Hyman). Young athletes learn that it is not all about themselves it is about the...
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...of quote that really stood out to me and others, John Wooden said that sports do not build character, sport reveal it, Legendary UCLA Basketball coach. With this being said, many players and coaches and other believe that sports, such as football and basketball, build character. Let’s take time to sit and think about this. If it were true, every person that steps upon the grid iron would be strong and successful winners in every aspect in the sport’s society. If you truly look at a person’s character, it has already been developed. Sports, such as football, bring it out of an individual. I wouldn’t say sports don’t develop player, but again I will say that it help bring out the best in a player. I figure that one way that sports helps a player’s character is how the ways of the game affect a person. Nobody like to lose, but when you lose are you going to be a man about the situation and shake another player’s hand or walk off the field with too much pride. The reason I speak on that is because a loser with bad sportsmanship will show that he got defeated with bad character, but a player with good sportsmanship will sit and accept that he got defeated and show more positive character throughout his career. A lot of people think that football is a good sport to show one’s character by how they win and their emotion through the game. When a team wins, it reflects on the players and also reveals what type of athletes you have on your team. Do you have humble players that can accept...
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...Invented by Walter Camp in the 1880's, football has always been a high-contact sport. Since then, it has been enjoyed by people all over the country. Although football was mainly invented for fun, it can be very dangerous. Many men have had concussions, torn ligaments, and even death just from playing football. The biggest and most common of these injuries are concussions. Back in the 1900's, concussions were not considered as serious as they are today because there was uncertainty about them. Unfortunately, we still deal with concussions today. Medical experts are now positive that concussions are severe and the most dangerous aspect of any sport - especially football. A concussion is a TBI (traumatic brain injury) caused by a bump, blow, or jolt to the head. Chronic...
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...others play it for enjoyment. Unlike professional sports, college athletes do not get paid during their time playing in college. Usually they try to improve their stock in college in order to have a chance to play professionally by getting drafted by a pro team. However, most athletes get scholarships to enter their college of choice. Recently, there have been arguments within college athletes that they should be payed for playing their respective sport. This has been a popular topic among the college ranks whether they should pay these college athletes when they already have a scholarship and get national exposure. Nonetheless, college athletes should not be paid for playing their respective sport because athletes already have positive benefits of being able to be in college and playing a sport. There are many negative aspects of paying college athletes. We can start with financial cost within the NCAA industry. This issue has mainly started with men’s basketball and football players. The issue is that if the NCAA is to pay men’s basketball and football players, they would also have to pay women’s volleyball and soccer players, and every other athlete at these institutions. According to TITLE IX, it must provide equal opportunity to men and women ( businessinsider.com: Gaines,Cork; 2011.20.Aug). Basically, if the NCAA were to pay the men’s basketball and football players, it would have to include every other athlete in their respective college. Paying college athletes would...
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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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...Among the many examples of leadership portrayed in this movie is Gerry Bertier, captain of the TC Williams football team. Gerry showed qualities of leadership by taking charge and following through with his responsibility. One of the ways he did this was by dropping Ray, his best friend, from the team due to the fact that Ray was not playing defensively on behalf of his Negro teammates, which resulted in the injury of one of them. Even though this decision threatened his friendship with Ray, Gerry still fulfilled his responsibility. Another quality of leadership Gerry shows is open-mindedness; he connected to all of his teammates—even the black ones. In fact, he became very good friends with Julius Campbell, one of Gerry’s black teammates. Despite the racism and tension in the air, Gerry made it his duty to be positive and lead the Titans to victory. “Remember the Titans” is not only a commemoration of the breaking of racial barriers in Virginia, but also of the true meaning of leadership. Julius Campbell and Gerry Bertier, as well as many other people in this movie, prove the viewers that leadership is about being a trendsetter, standing for what you believe in, and having a positive influence. Successful leaders look for opportunities, not obstacles. Bertier in many ways is the protagonist in this movie however he probably wouldn't want to be considered above anyone or more important than any of his teammates. As one watches "Remember the Titans", Gerry Bertier stands...
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...as one of its biggest assets (Hayman, 2011). For this reason a critical analysis of PR examples, may help to pragmatically understand the effects of a good or bad use of PR activities. A good reputation not only makes a company stand out from the mass, but it also gives a competitive edge too (Samuelson et al., 2000). Furthermore, effective PR creates a positive impact on the company’s reputation by communicating and creating good connections with all the organisation’s stakeholders (Jobber, 2010). * Mars’s England Sponsorship Mars chocolate bars has been developing, around its slogan “Work - Rest - Play” created in 2008, a unique marketing strategy (Mars, 2014; Sweney, 2008). From that moment, Mars has been trying to associate itself as the chocolate bars for sport lovers and, since 2009, it is the official snack supplier of England’s football team (Mars, 2014). One of the most interesting campaign is the one called “Work, Rest and Play your Part in England”, ran in 2012. The PR aspect of this campaign, linked with the partnership promotion campaign, mainly targeted football lovers - in specific England’s Football supporters. Without shadow of a doubt, the objectives of this campaign were: to build awareness of Mars’ sponsorship with the England...
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...INTRODUCTION The Malaysia national football team is the national team of Malaysia and is controlled by the Football Association of Malaysia (FAM). It has never qualified for the World Cup finals, although the team did qualify to play in the 1980 Olympics in Moscow. However, Malaysia did not take part after heeding a United States-led boycott of the Games due to the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. The most significant successes of the team has come in the regional AFC Suzuki Cup, which Malaysia won in 2010 for the first time in history. They beat Indonesia 4–2 on aggregate in the final to capture the country's first major international football title. Malaysia had many top players since the creation of the Federation of Malaya, such as Tan Sri Datuk Abdul Ghani Minhat, who was remembered for his lethal skills as a striker and known throughout the land as ‘The King of Football’. Then came the likes of the legendary Mokhtar Dahari and James Wong, which led Malaysia into their golden age during the 1970s until the 1980s. In 1962, Malaysia recorded a 15–1 victory over the Philippines, which is currently the record for the highest win for the national team. In the current generation, Mohd Safee Mohd Sali and Norshahrul Idlan Talaha are considered by many Malaysians as the best strikers of this generation. In the FIFA World Rankings, Malaysia's highest standing was in the first release of the figures, in August 1993, at 75th. Currently, Malaysia is ranked in the 163rd position....
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...Sports Film Reaction Paper Invincible is a film based on the true story of lifetime eagle fan Vince Papale. This film takes place in 1976 in Philadelphia, which is going through a recession, and the Eagles are being booed of the field. Vince is playing football with a group of his friends on a street field. You then find out that Vince is laid off from his high school substitute teaching job, and his wife just left him. His friend Max who owns a local bar offers him a bartending job which he takes. Max’s cousin Janet, who is a giants fan, also takes a job at the bar. While this is happening, the Eagles hire new head coach Dick Vermeil. During an interview Vermeil announces that there will be open tryouts for the Eagles. While Vince’s friends try to convince him to go to the tryouts, his father who stops by late one night at the bar tells him not to. They don’t have a very strong relationship. Vince goes to the tryout and is the only person asked to go to training camp. Like all great sports movies Vince first struggles at training camp. At first he’s struggling, he’s being ostracized by the big name players and he’s not good enough. Eventually he makes friends and gains the respect of the other players. Vermeil is tasked with the decision of cutting Vince or keeping him and he decides to keep him, and he joined the special teams on kickoffs and punts. Vince making the Eagles seems to be helping his friends and Philly get through these hard times. The Eagles first preseason game...
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...with the previous sentence) Specific toys and sports are associated with certain genders and generalizes the role that boys and girls should uphold. Male characteristics are thought to be strong, tough and are unable to show weakness whereas female roles are to be nurturing, supportive and caring. In Jane Smiley’s article, the author focuses on how Barbie plays a positive role model in her daughter’s childhood. Barbie is portrayed as beautiful woman who posses feminine qualities. Young girls who tend to play with Barbie dolls have a mind set that they should grow up to be like Barbie. “Lucy could apply lipstick with her eyes closed by the time she was five.” (Smiley 238) This quote shows that children are easily influenced by the toy they play with. In comparison to “You Can Never Have too Many”, John McMurtry’s article focuses on football and how playing sports has shaped the person that he is. Football involves a muscular physique, aggressiveness, strong and a competitive mind. These are the kinds of traits society makes males envision themselves to be. Younger boys are usually more active and enjoy playing...
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...Master. Nike World Cup 1. Discuss the factors that have resulted in Nike Football becoming over a $1 Billion division and a major force in the football market. The Nike football brand believed that the only way to seize any kind of opportunity for growth is to first have a product that speaks for itself. Therefore, Nike believed that footwear product innovation should have the most focus. Nike had four steps to product innovation, development, design, marketing and most importantly, testing. The company spent hundreds of millions of dollars to create the right products that the athletes could preform well on. The fact that the 2006 world cup final between France and Italy, an Adidas and Puma team respectively, had 12 of the 22 starts still wearing a Nike shoe is a testament to the quality of the Nike products. Once Nike became a proven brand. It needed to find ways of reaching fans in unconventional ways because the Advertising rights were already bought out from Adidas. But, Nike saw how international players from South America and Asia were moving to European leagues and the game was about to transform from a “scoring matters” culture, to a “getting past your man is just a good” culture. This played well with Nike’s sponsorship with the Brazilian National team who were well known for their stylish way of playing football. Nike piggybacked this niche in the market to bring a new edge of football that promoted individual performance that can be enhanced with Nike’s cutting...
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... development is the key aspect of the story. The change that takes place in the Virginia suburban was the integration of black and white people. This change affected the whole community, school as well as the students in the football team. We as organizational development consultants job was to oversee the change that happened in this community and to manage this change to help the people that are going through this change. Firstly it is important to know what is meant by organizational development. It is a planned process of developing an organization to be more effective in accomplishing its desired goals. Organisational development can also be defined as a theory and practice of planned, systematic change in the attitudes, beliefs, and values of the employees through creation and reinforcement of long-term training programs. Organisational development is action oriented. It starts with a careful organization-wide analysis of the current situation and of the future requirements, and employs techniques of behavioral sciences such as behavior modeling, sensitivity training, and transactional analysis. Its objective is to enable the organization in adopting-better to the fast-changing external environment of new markets, regulations, and technologies. Regarding the change that happened in Remember the Titans we decided to apply two different models to help the people through this change. The two models are: The Lewin Change model and The Positive model of change. The...
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...policies, processes and practices that form an integral feature of the work involved in providing sporting opportunities and positive sporting experiences.” Essentially sport development is about “getting more people involved into sport” (Bloyce and Smith, 2009). The traditional Sport Development Continuum is likewise known as the “sports development pyramid” due to its shape and is also frequently use to define the system of sport in the UK. It is formed by four stages: -Foundation. Beginners in sports, usually children learning basic skills. Primary schools and sports clubs are the main suppliers. -Participation. People begin to participate regularly in sports. It is also health and community sport related. Local authorities are the main providers. -Performance. Aimed for most talented performance who progress to compete in sport. Voluntary clubs play a key role in this stage. -Excellence. Focusing on top class performers competing at national and international levels. NGBs, sports council and private sponsors are responsible for athlete’s development. This model has been used to demonstrate the player development in football, identifying the stage with the different leagues that makes the FA: • Foundation: Grassroots, PE at school. • Participation: Local football club. • Performance: professional football club. • Excellence: professional football club...
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...Growing up in the south, you learn were known for one thing: football. Football is way of life here that’s passed down from many generations. When the name Paul “Bear” Bryant is said I can’t help but think of “ambassador” to college football of his era. The question that came to my mind was what do I exactly know about Paul “Bear” Bryant? I knew he was the University of Alabama football coach who built a dynasty in his tenure there, but what truly did he accomplish and what made him a leader of his generation? Paul “Bear” Bryant was born a leader. I was intrigued he earned the nickname, “Bear” at a young age by agreeing to wrestle a bear from a traveling circus (bio.com). This showed his bravery and courage to never back down from a challenge at a young age in life which is something a great leader must possess. While playing football at Alabama, Bryant made the decision he wanted not only to be a head coach, but "a great head coach,” and believed there were no shortcuts to success (Mink). Bryant accomplished many astounding aspects as a college football coach after his football career. He won six national championships for the University of Alabama (1964, 65, 67, 73, 78, 79). In his 38 year coaching career, he only had one losing season that ended with a then college football record of 323 victories. He won 15 conference championships and was named College Football Coach of the Year three times (bio.com). Bryant was also awarded the Medal of Freedom by President Ronald...
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...Learning to Win: Sports, Education, And Social Changes in Twentieth-Century North Carolina published by Pamela Gundy focuses on the state of North Carolina and discusses issues such as race, gender, and class that are controversial in education and athletics. Grundy combines many different aspects throughout her book by using stories of other people to explain her central point. Grundy uses personal stories from coaches and athletes such as Walter Lingle, John C. Lendon, and David Thompson. In doing so the book contains an abundance of historical information which is not always shared with the public. The book is neither for or against combining sports and education but just states the facts and different sides of the story. This book holds...
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