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    Should Tryouts Be Abolished Persuasive Essay

    competitive sports. Tryouts motivate teens to work harder, prepares them for adulthood, and it gives teens an opportunity to learn and grow. Tryouts should be continued to determine which athletes are best for that competitive sport. To begin, having tryouts for a competitive team can motivate teens in a positive way. It will show them that you need to work for what you want. For example, expecting yourself to make the team isn’t going to work. The author from the article Cutting Students from Sports Proves

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    Personal Narrative: How Football Has Changed My Life

    Sports and athletics have always played a large part in my life. My father coached my sister and I throughout our childhood and well into our teenage years. After constant exposure to football and basketball through television, I decided to tackle those challenges as well. Unfortunately, there is far less coverage of soccer than other athletics in the media, therefore, joining a team never crossed my mind. It was not until a friend recommended me to join his team when I was about 14 years old, did

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    Becoming A Cheerleader

    Everything we do has a reason and point to it; nothing in life is useless, if it was, then it simply wouldn’t exist. Several accept as the truth that playing sports isn’t taking them anywhere in life unless they’re planning on becoming a professional; other say that learning about what happened in the past remains irrelevant since it’s in the past, or that bagging groceries are only worth the money they make. However, what about the life lessons that are developed along the way, like pushing yourself

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    Argumentative Essay: Should We Keep After School Sports?

    In today’s stressful world, sports may be the only way to calm down. Although many people believe sports are the cause of failing grades; multiple studies have shown that physically active students have higher grades. Therefore, schools should keep after-school sports because they relieve stress, players can develop good teamwork habits, and they can help students academically. Students have stress; sports can be the antidote for the tension. According to Tim O´Shei, who wrote an article on why

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    Contact Football Persuasive Essay For Kids

    Football is a great sport, it is the most popular, the most talked about, and the most played sport, so why take that awayat such a young age? Kids should be allowed to play tackle football before highschool, because it helps kids learn how to build charater traits as they get older, it also helps kids stay in shape, And lastly, Kids need to learn how to properly tackle at a young age. Building good character traits is taught at a young age. Contact football helps with that. It helps kids learn

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    Personal Narrative: Running In High School

    When sports are all you have, giving up is not an option. Since elementary school, I have always participated in sports, and they have always been a big part of my life. Once I was in high school never did I think running would become my main sport; becoming my number one reason for going to school. When a former teammate told me I had the potential to go on and run in college, every day I would show up to practice, putting all my effort to perfect my times. Not once did it ever cross my mind that

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    Analysis Of Weight-Lifting Injuries On The Rise By Nicholas Bakalar

    this article, author incorporates percentages and graphs to support and backup his claims. For example, “About 82 percent of the 970,000 people injured were men, according to the study, which appeared in the April issue of the American Journal of Sports Medicine.” Author also cites his evidence so that readers know they are not reading myths. Nicholas Bakalar provided some visual representations of the data that was given. There were three graphs. First graph shows estimated weight-training injuries

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    The Role Of Sports In The 1980's

    In the 1980's sports was being affected by the government deciding how to get more people to play. 2015 Women's World Cup! Largest game in history at the moment. U.S against Japan, U.S defeated Japan with a striking score of 5 to 2. The game that brings people from all around the world together, can also have us drifted apart. The 1980's was an interesting time for the U.S, Mark Hickley attempted to murder the former President Ronald Reagan on March 30th. An extreme heat wave killed

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    Sports Are Not Too Intense For Athletes Essay

    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

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    Why Dodgeball Should Be Banned

    One more reason why I think dodgeball should be banned is because it is an elimination game I don’t think that it is fair to other people who aren’t active or athletic. And when you play dodgeball you aren’t getting any exercise you are just standing there doing nothing and PE (Physical Education) you “ OW! That hurt!!!” “Sorry I didn’t see you there.” Did you know that school principals at Elkton, Maryland have banned dodgeball? They just banned it recently. The reason why they banned is because

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