Sports have been around for a very long time, for at least 4 centuries. Sports is something that everyone loves and enjoys very much. Sports give people an excitement in their life
Favorite Sports
In the world there at least one hundred sports that get played around the world yearly. The whole world loves sports that are played by their hometown player. Sports is something that pretty much everyone enjoys who has played. In the U.S.A the favorite sports played nation wide is baseball and football. Many Americans love these two sports due the such the rush it gives them, during a very important game some Americans will beat on who will the game. Like last year when the New England Patriots and Atlanta Falcons many people were beating on who will win. Well many people won big time money and some people lost big time money, but no matter how much they lose people will continue beating on who will win or lose. In Mexico their favorite sport is futball but to them it means soccer. Mexico has a very good soccer league, they win many games but this year they didn’t win the world cup, they lost to Brazil. When they lost it has sadden them, they had thought that they would have a good year and go on to win the world cup but the had came short against Brazil. In Canada they have three favorite sports hockey,lacrosse, and curling. Canada some sports you may not know but lacrosse is kinda played like soccer but with a much smaller ball and sticks that have nets to carry the ball in while running. Curling is where they are on a ice ring and they slide somethings called stones across the ice towards a target of four concentric circles,curling is kinda like bowling for Americans but they have different equipment to play with. Canada has some weird sports but they are fascinating at the same time, all around the world they have sports that will appeal weird to you but very entertaining to them.( Video of curling)
http://espndeportes.espn.com/futbol/equipo/_/id/203/méxico#sanitized=true
Sportsmanship
what does sportsmanship mean will it means generous behavior to each other. Sportsmanship has been around for many years as long as anyone can remember. Sportsmanship is used in many sports like basketball,football,soccer,baseball,softball,hockey and many more sports. Athletes use sportsmanship as a sign of peace many famous athletes use sportsmanship like Stephen Curry, Lebron James, James Harden,etc, they use sportsmanship in games like when a nother players falls or gets hurts they will help the fallen player. Having sportsmanship is very important its what matters during a game, are you gonna help the injured player that’s down or are you gonna stand there and watch him pick him self up. A very good example of sportsmanship was when Jonny Brown had helped from his bother who carried him over the finish line because he was to tired and cramped from the race, or when D’Agostino had fell while running but before she tried to help her self up she was helping Hamblin to her feet before falling due to a leg injury. I like to believe that sportsmanship is something that not every player in the game has, one player can have a very well sportsmanship to the opponent while another player has not one drop of sportsmanship for the opponent. Not many players in the big league have sportsmanship but its like nowadays sportsmanship is a little to hard to find in a athlete, most athletes forget about sportsmanship once the spotlight hits them and its shinning bright. Athletes kinda forget about the whole sportsmanship idea that they are taught when they are younger or when their career start taking off, sportsmanship is something that should stick with the athletes no matter what, even if they were to blow up and become this big world wide famous athlete or even if your a small town athlete because sportsmanship matter in every single game that gets played by the athletes
http://www.espn.com/video/clip?id=11157816
NO Pass,NO Play
In the State of Texas for sports we have something called UIL which means University Interscholastic League. Out of 50 states Texas is the only one to have an academic law where if you don’t pass with a 70/75 or higher you are not allowed to play sports. The UIL has many rules that apply to the academic learning. The rule makes it very hard on some kids who have trouble in the class room,but it gives them the urge to keep trying to pass their classes. When the rule first came into action in 1985 it made many kids mad. They thought with this new rule that many of them weren’t going to be able to play the sports they loved. The new rule had made it hard on the athletes and the coaches, coaches were trying their hardest to make sure that their athletes weren’t failing their classes so they would be able to play on game nights and not just sit there on the bench. Coaches were very worried about their players not being able to play so they did everything in their will to help their athletes in order to pass every six weeks. The UIL has some rules that can be bent in someways to help out the athlete that may be failing his or her classes. As when spring break rolls around all athletes are considered passing but once you come back from spring break the athlete that is failing or so is no longer considered passing so there for they are not able to play their sport. This new UIL rule had became in hope of helping athletes get better at their school work and to help get a scholarship for the sport and the good academic learning skills that the athlete has. This UIL rule was a big change in the begging but now it helps athletes push harder in the class room and the field.
https://www.uiltexas.org/policy/tea-uil-side-by-side/academic-requirements
https://www.mrt.com/sports/article/No-Pass-No-Play-heads-into-fourth-decade-7419312.php
Drug Use
Sports?Everyone loves sports weather its football,basketball,soccer,baseball,softball,etc. But when it comes to sports there can be a downside about sports. For example the drug use that players use.”Nearly four years after he began wagging a costly, draining and ultimately losing battle to discredit his positive test for synthetic testosterone at the 2006 Tour de France” according to ESPN news caster. Floyd Landis was a famous Cyclist who had won Tour de France but was strip of his winning because he was tested positive for testosterone. After Landis got tested positive he was banned for two years of cycling. Many athletes use drugs for many reasons for example to help them grew muscles,or sometimes a muscle relaxer. A athlete will use steroids, cannabis, opiates.
As years go by the amount athletes drug abuse goes up, do to the find of new drugs every year.Another case of an athlete using drugs is Darryl Strawberry who was a MLB four time series champion, but his glory ended due to the use of cocaine and alcohol use. Darryl Strawberry had a good matter of fact great reputation for being a Major League Baseball player who had won the world series four times, and he made eight consecutive all-star games through out his 17 year career. As a kid Strawberry had it rough growing up “My childhood always was a real disaster.” Strawberry had an abusive father growing up he would “whop” strawberry and his older bother.”Me and Ronnie were basically his whopping pole”. As the years go on Darryl had started to play baseball to deal with the abuse, when he first started baseball he had a nasty attitude. But despite his attitude he was picked 1 draft pick in 1980 by the New York Mets. As he career started to take he gained all the fame from being No. 1 draft pick to being Player of the year in 1983, all this fame was to much for him to handle which he turned to the drugs to help him.” I did everything to make me feel good. I drank alcohol, took amphetamines.Later down the line, I got introduced heavily into cocaine which was my outlet and escape…”. Even tho his life was charshing he still managed to lead his team to the world series. Later through the years he was suspended for the drugs use, he was soon to play again for the New York Mets, but as years went on he was arrested for drugs and prostitution. After that he began to lose everything his career,wife, and he almost lost him self.
Athletes do drugs and other things while not worrying about the consequences that will come after the drug use.
http://www.cbn.com/entertainment/sports/darryl_strawberry092109.aspx
http://www.ncaa.org/sport-science-institute/mind-body-and-sport-substance-use-and-abuse
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4140700/ http://www1.cbn.com/sports/darryl-strawberry%3A-a-changed-man
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