...receive some kind of sports injury, it states that 60% of these occur in practice and are only mild strains or sprains. The research also shows that children are more likely to hurt themselves in everyday activity, and these injuries are more serious than those that occur in organized sports. I can attest that all injuries I had in sports were minor, and the main injury that prevented me from continuing to play came as a result of falling on a slippery pavement, and not while engaging in sports. Organized sports have been proven to develop leadership in individuals. I feel that without sports I would not have developed into the leader I am in the corporate world. For example playing football I was a quarterback which is the leader of the offense, and as a quarterback my role was not only to know what the other 10 players on my team had to do to execute the play flawlessly, but also know what the defense on the other side was going to do to try to stop the offense. When seeing something on the defense that didn’t sit right, I had to call an audible, which is a change of plans...
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...This past offseason, the Buffalo Bills inked quarterback Tyrod Taylor to a massive six-year, $92 million contract extension, after coming off an impressive 2015 season. Last season as the full-time starter, Taylor completed 63.7 percent of his passes for 3,035 passing yards, to go along with 20 touchdowns and six interceptions. He also contributed 568 yards and four touchdowns on the ground. Taylor was the ultimate dual threat quarterback for Rex Ryan last season and gave Bills' fans hope that they could make a playoff push in 2016. However, fast forward to this season, and things have been a struggle for both Taylor and Buffalo. After winning four straight games earlier in the season, thanks to an 0-2 start. Buffalo has lost five of their last seven games. Over that span of games, the Bills' play as a team has...
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...4-2-5 Defense Clayt Birmingham University of Wisconsin Stout Defensive Coordinator USA National Team Linebackers Coach Gaps Gaps & Techniques Gap Responsibility Defined D C B AA B C D Lineman Techniques of Alignment 8 6 9 4 7 2 5 4I 3 2I 1 2 0 1 4 2I 3 4I 5 6 7 8 9 What is a 4-2-5 Defense? 43 2 Back lig me t 2 1 1 2 B E A N T H S M AC RC FS 2 Back = 4-4 Alignment Back 4- What is a 4-2-5 Defense? 43 1 ack Alignment 2 2 1 1 E RC B N T S FS A AC M H 1 Back = 4-3 Alignment 4- Why Play the 4-2-5? 4 Nickel Defense = Fast & Aggressive Cross between a 4-4 and a 4-3 Easy adjustment to Formations / Personnel Gap Controlled Defense with easy defined run fits. Good Blitz Angles Good angles to set the edge! Allows us to run split coverage defense. Allows us to get to a 4-4, 4-3, 3-3, & 3-4 with same personnel. What Personnel is Needed? If ´Speed WINSµ then Design your defense for Speed = ² Aggressive Corners = Safeties ² Stiff Safeties = LB·s ² Oversized LB·s = Ends ² Oversized Ends = D Tackles ² Biggest D-Lineman = Nose (your anchor) Personnel Personnel Defined: 3 1 ack Alignment 2 2 1 1 E RC B N T S FS A AC M H Run Fits with the 4-2-5 4Direct Flow A ISO ST A N T H Fold E B M S Step to Stack Full Flow F Run...
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...There have always been stiff arguments between sports team devotees as to who’s quarterback really brings the goods to the table. The argument for who truly clenches the crown of being named the GOAT, or greatest of all time, is surely not one to be taken lightly by any means whatsoever. After all, this is the title any quarterback in history has ever labored their entire life for just the chance to claim. While Peyton Manning, Drew Brees, and Joe Montana are all pretty high on the totem pole, a totem pole that stands colossal and robust, only one Quarterback can truly be named the GOAT. The only Quarterback who truly possesses the firepower to claim this title is none other than the most prominent; Tom Brady. Now for one to sit upon such...
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...Resize Font: A- A+ The Polarizing Michael Vick Unknowable. Infuriating. Impossible to pigeonhole. Is there any way to define the legacy of the Eagles $100 million quarterback? By Bill Simmons on November 2, 2012 * PRINT Michael Vick's career is like football Play-Doh — an amorphous hunk that you can shape however you want. You could craft a Vick-centric essay about redemption just as easily as one about squandered potential. You could unleash a "Vick was totally and tragically underrated!" argument with the same gusto as a "Vick was the most overrated football star ever!" rant. You could borrow certain statistics to plead his case as an elite quarterback, and other numbers to bury that same case. You could declare with complete authority that "nobody is ever winning a Super Bowl with Michael Vick," or you could veer the other way and say, "If Michael Vick finds the right team, maybe he could thrive like Steve Young did in San Francisco." Vick didn't need a dogfighting scandal to retire as the most polarizing NFL quarterback ever — it would have happened anyway. Even the process of drafting Vick was polarizing. When Vick declared for 2001's NFL draft after just two Virginia Tech seasons, Peter King wrote a Sports Illustrated piece headlined "Risky Business," with the subhead "Snakebitten San Diego will likely cast its lot with Michael Vick, who's making a perilous leap from college sophomore to No. 1 pick in the NFL draft." It's an uncanny piece to reread, like...
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...Football It is third down and long. The quarterback is under center, and his receivers are split out wide. He takes the snap, fakes the hand-off, and drops back into the pocket. He surveys the defense, and fires a perfect strike into the back of the end zone for the game -winning touchdown. Victory! Daleville High School defeats Enterprise High School for the first time ever. His teammates hoist the quarterback onto their shoulders, and jubilantly carry him off the field. Abruptly, the dream changes. He drops back in the pocket, releases the ball, and it is intercepted. Suddenly, the young man awakens and gratefully realizes he is only dreaming. With sweat beading on his forehead, he props back on his pillows and contemplates the next night’s big game. (Deep in Southeast Alabama the magnitude of the football rivalry between the Daleville Warhawks and the Enterprise Wildcats can be understood through the sights, sounds, and smells.) ‘SHOW DON’T TELL’ (The player’s vision becomes almost overwhelmed by all his eyes behold.) To begin, stadium lights the height of skyscrapers, with moths swarming around, light up the night sky making it feel like daytime. The 100-yard kelly green field with its white horizontal stripes dominates the scene. The players, Daleville dressed in red and black and Enterprise in navy blue and white line opposite sides with the bleachers rising up behind them. They seem like giants in tremendous shoulder and leg pads with helmets crowning...
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...RICE AND BULLETS Hernando R. Ocampo Without taking his breakfast, Tura left the house very early in the morning with an old jute sack slung across his shoulder. Long ago the sack had contained rice for his family—for his daughters Ine and Clara, for his little son Totoy, and for his wife Marta. But now the jute sack was bulging with the sharp, hard edges of three big stones which he had gathered the night before. "What are those stones for"? Marta asked. "Mister Remulla said we must have three big stones in our sack. He said these stones would represent the three biggest islands in our country," Tura explained. "What are you going to do with them?" Marta asked. "I don't know," Tura answered, seemingly peeved. “Mister Remulla said that with these stones we'll soon have something to eat, and that is all I care about. He told us we ought not to be hungry. We have as much right to eat and live as the proprietarious have." Marta had ceased to ask further questions. At the mention of rice she had suddenly seemed satisfied. But this morning, before Tura left, she asked again, "Are you sure there will be no trouble?" "How could there be? Mister Remulla knows what he is doing. He said that is what they do in America. He came from America. He ought to know." And slinging the jute sack with the big stones across his shoulder, Tura left his wife on the threshold, while his three children, ill-clad and ill-nourished, looked sheepishly on. Out in the street Tura wondered how things...
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...he has ever done, through college and even now in the pros. Tim Tebow is not suppose to be where he is at now. He was drafted too high, and he was never supposed to lead an NFL team to a winning record in only his second season. The experts said that he couldn’t even be an NFL quarterback. They said he was the third best quarterback on Denver’s roster at the beginning of the season. Tim Tebow doesn’t care what the experts say, and is proving them wrong every week he starts under center for the Denver Broncos. A sub-par quarterback winning games is not the only reason Tebow has been getting all of the hype. Tebow is a devout Christian and takes every opportunity to share his Christian values. Some are offended by this, and others think that it just adds to the legend in the making that is Timothy Richard Tebow. Tebow is not a loser, he just doesn’t do it. In college he won two BCS National Championships and led the gators to an impressive 34-5 record as a starter. While at the University of Florida he also became the first sophomore to ever win the Heisman trophy. After graduating from the University of Florida, many doubted his talents as an NFL quarterback and rightfully so, who wanted a quarterback who was a better runner than passer and who was highly...
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...Clayton Moore December 7, 2012 The Art of Leadership Marcus Chaney Leadership I have played football my whole life so I have been around a lot of leadership and developed some of my own leadership skills. I have always felt like I was a pretty good leader, but after this semester I have greatly improved on many of my leadership skills. Although I still have some weaknesses when it comes to leadership, this semester has helped me learn a lot about myself as a leader and as a person. Over the semester I learned that I have much more leadership potential than I thought. Leadership is a process by which a person influences others to accomplish an objective and directs them in a way that makes the unit more cohesive and coherent. Obviously, leadership can be learned but, the skills and knowledge processed by a leader can be influenced by their traits such as beliefs, ethics, and character. Before this semester I felt that I possessed many of the traits that a good leader would need to have. I am a very motivated person and I pride myself on my beliefs. Throughout the semester I learned how important it is to use my motivation to motivate others and to inspire them to become the best they can be at whatever it is they are doing. In my case, most of the time I am leading on the football field. I am constantly pushing my teammates to their limits and helping them achieve, not only their individual goals but, the goals of our team. I also learned that while it is important...
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...on from the stands and showing their support for them. They should all get the chance to feel the encouragement and love from their coach and teammates as they score their first touchdown. Every child should have the chance to participate in a team sport. Not only are sports great entertainment and exercise for children, but it also is a fun way for them to learn basic and important life skills. Youth sports help guide children to develop good character and morals. Through their participation with a team sport, children are being taught how to work well with others, develop self-motivation and perseverance, increase their level of strategically thinking, and embrace courage. To begin, while participating in a team sport children are developing an important characteristic, learning how to work well with others. For many children, this is a hard lesson to learn. “Kids practice camaraderie, sportsmanship and loyalty to their fellow players and coaches. They must learn to work together to win a game, rely on each other to make a successful play, and dedicate themselves to improving their skills for the betterment of the team” (Frey, 2013). Have you ever sat in the stands at a youth football, basketball, baseball, or soccer game and just studied a teams every move and the interaction with their teammates. In basketball, you will see the ball being dribbled from player to player with grace and confidence in their teammate....
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...Outline Learning English through video diary is the fascinating way to approach English vocabulary Do people nowadays still improving English vocabulary by just reading? For me reading it was just an input. Learning should be interactive. There are a lots of leisure activities surrounding us. People might think that watching an English movie is more effective rather than just reading books. But by just watching is not enough to improve English vocabulary. There is an widely accepted assumption that filming our daily conversations to improve English vocabulary instead of just reading. In the process of filming, we are involves in the conversation. We can improve our listening skills and observes the gesture, tune of voice, action and etc. Body (Why video is being a good tool in learning English) Video as a listening tool “Video as a listening tool can enhance the listening experience for our students. We very rarely hear a disembodied voice in real life but as teachers we constantly ask our students to work with recorded conversations of people they never see.”-- By Mark McKinnon Video is a good tool in performing and adding weight to the situation while we have an argument conversation. We can learn and observes our gesture, action and tune of voice while we were in a conversation. We might tried a lot of methods to improve English vocabulary, for more effectiveness way, we should try out by filming ourselves daily conversations and watch over and over to find out...
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...LEARNING’S ROLE IN EMPLOYEE ENGAGEMENT You often know it when you walk into a place of business. You can tell who is bored, distracted or unhappy. And you can tell who is focused, invested and engaged. Most employers prefer the latter type of employees, of course, because they tend to work harder, be more productive, provide better customer service, and are often just more fun to work with. But determining how to engage employees is a major challenge. The business literature provides few sure-fire, easy-toimplement ways of increasing employee engagement. With this challenge in mind, the American Society for Training & Development (ASTD) commissioned the Institute for Corporate Productivity (i4cp) to conduct a survey and develop a study on employee engagement. “Learning’s Role in Employee Engagement” was sponsored by Dale Carnegie Training. The goal was to gain an overview of engagement in today’s workplace and to find out how organizations can boost engagement levels, with a particular focus on learning’s role in the process. The final report is based on survey responses from 776 HR and learning executives and an extensive review of the workplace literature. The results were intriguing. The research team found that engagement truly is an issue of major significance to most organizations, which is probably related to the fact that the average organization has some serious engagement problems. Only about a third of the average respondent’s workforce is highly engaged, and nearly...
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...Writer’s Self-Portrait I have a dream that I can travel around the world, and take picture from every place I have been, and share with my family and friends to encourage them to do what they dream. And I know my mother also likes to travel, but sadly, she always thinks taking good care of family is her only responsibility, she cannot leave home. I always tell her, “ Your kids are grown up. Don’t worry too much about us. Just go anywhere you want to go.” But she just cannot. So now, I am here. I took a lot of pictures and sent them to my mother, then told her about where I live and how it looks like here. I hope I can be a good writer or storyteller, when people read or listen to my story, they can feel they are here with me. Especially my mom, I wish I can use words with pictures to let her sees what I have seen. I was thinking to write a letter for my father before I came here, but I failed it, I cannot written up what I was thinking. My father is a traditional Chinese father, his face is always looks like serious, and he doesn’t talk too much, also sometimes I don’t really talk to him, it is because I can feel that he always thinks I am too childish and I don’t like that feeling. The night makes me so impressive. We were talked for few hours in the night of Taiwan Father’s Day which is on October 8th. We were talking about our past, our present, my future, our religion, my career and future goals. I don’t remember we had talked so long like this time. I talked to him just...
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...sessions and corporate wouldn’t know until something happened to an employee or manager. With only providing on-the job training means employees are not aware of corporate’s standards, goals, and workings which they should be aware of. They are trained by store managers; therefore, they are bounded only to store operations and missing the corporation’s goals, which limits their career with the organization. The strengths to decentralized training for management trainees is that their training program provides them with practical as well as theoretical knowledge. They are trained in corporate, therefore, they are aware of how corporate headquarters actually work which will sharpen their skills and knowledge of the company’s goals. They have been trained by experienced store managers which give them skills to handle workload and knowledge about different experiences which they are likely to face in store operations. The selection of experienced store managers to be trainers is an excellent for developing future managers....
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...SEX EDUCATION? Imagine this scene. A young girl of fourteen approaches her mother and asks, “mom, how was I made?”. The mother goes blank. She is confused as to what she wants to know first. Would it be how to explain the miraculous process of reproduction and conception? Or would she prefer to know how her child got the nerve to ask such a question? It can not be denied that in today’s time, sex has become a household term. If before it was considered taboo, nowadays, it may be spoken as easily as saying one’s name. In effect, it may now be discussed everywhere by everyone including children. The term is actually not a bad one. In fact, it is a gift from God to any married couple. It is the process by which two people, blessed by God, become instruments of His creation. What makes it a “dirty” thing now is what many young people do to it. Sex has been abused and done by people even at a very young age of 14. This scenario has led to teenage pregnancies, sexually transmitted diseases, single parenthood, premature marriages, broken families, and eventually, poverty. The only solution the goverment sees that can be deemed possible to curb these incidents is by sex education---teaching sex in basic education. Are we Filipinos ready for this? I do not think so. But have got another option? No, we don’t. We have got no choice. This leads us back to teaching sex in school. But how can this be done? There have to be rules or guidelines that must be implemented in order that...
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