Hall of Fame coach Don Shula once said, “Sure, luck means a lot in football. Not having a good quarterback is bad luck.” The most difficult job in sports is playing quarterback. No job in sports is more crucial to a team’s success. Without a quarterback a team cannot win. A quarterback is a pitcher, point guard, and coach all in one. Just as in baseball, where a team wins or loses based largely on how well its starting pitcher pitches, a football team will win or lose based on how well the
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These are all real cases of NFL football players whose brains had CTE. Boston University’s case study revealed the brain tissue of 90 of 94 deceased former NFL players have been positive for CTE. Unfortunately, to identify CTE in the brain, a sample of the brain must be examined and tested. This means the person must be deceased before they can be positively diagnosed with CTE. The NFL at first denied the connection of CTE and other degenerate diseases to concussions. But eventually after all
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been proven that American Football is a dangerous sport because of an impact a football player gets in only one hit. Also, because of the concussions a football player gets can cause brain damage. There is a 99% chance of a NFL player to get the common disease called Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy (CTE). This disease is caused by all the head trauma a player gets from playing the sport. I believe a football player knows what is ahead of his future, but does not really care about dying with a disease
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first player to 10 victory points. There are five ways to earn victory points: building a settlement is worth one victory point, creating cities is worth two victory points, establishing the longest road gives you two victory points(if you take this title away from someone you take their two point while earning another two points), and acquiring the largest army first in the game gives you two victory points. Managing the use of the resources will help you gain advantages over other players. There
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create more fan base if fighting is taken out of the game. The main idea of this argument is about fighting in hockey. I believe fighting should be kept and allowed in hockey. Fighting draws fan base, makes the game more interesting, protects the star players and takes out more of the cheap shots. The first point Ryan tries to address about fighting is that hockey will have less injuries. Ryan uses his interview with NHL commissioner Gary Bettman as evidence. Gary says, “We are trying to take fighting
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We watch sports to watch the athletes; in this day and age they are trained to ignore technology on the field, but it is always there to frustrate and distract those focused playing. The current number two and number one tennis players in the world, Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal, were one of the first athletes to play with the Hawk-Eye. It was during the 2007 Wimbledon when Federer asked for the machine to be turned off because he had been disagreeing with the majority of its calls as they contradicted
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of soccer, but recently there has been discussion of prohibiting “headers” from the game. In soccer, a “header” is when a player advances the ball using their forehead. The head takes the force of the ball. Recent evidence shows that it is possible that headers may cause player concussions or produce long-term brain damage. Many former and current professional soccer players as well as some National Soccer organizations have taken part in the fight against headers. Critics and researchers assert
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I was not demoted and I did not resign, the server was shut down due to few donations. The third server I was staff on was a server called PurePvP, this was an HCF server with around 300 players on daily, I was in a power faction when one of the staff members said that I should apply for staff because I was really active and helpful in chat, so I said 'Yeah why not, let's do it' I then went to their forums and made a staff application, I
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In the world of college basketball, its coaches oftentimes go unnoticed. However, most of the players that we see in the NBA today would not exist with the assistance of their coaches. To expound further, LeBron James, Blake Griffin, Steph Curry, and Michael Jordan would have never existed. Like many things in life, playing sports requires guidance. Moreover, it requires ambition and determination. In fact, playing sports involve coaching. Therefore, basketball remains no different. Moreover, few
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when conducting their own private investigations. Though they are very strict with their players, there have been cases where they don't suspend them accordingly or have unjustly suspended them without proper reason or without evidence.The suspension of these players have reasonable justifications according to their private investigations but they give justifications. The NFL should be prosecuted for giving players game suspensions due to their private investigations and not providing justifications
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