Negative Effects In Sports

The impact of preserving sports in high schools has been surrounded by much controversy as people suspect that it is the reason behind the poor academic achievement of students. Opponents to high school sports feel that allowing athletics to be a part of schools sidetracks the focus of the student body, which goes completely against the main purpose of schools. Indeed, this assertion is completely true and based upon plentiful evidence. High school sports undoubtedly come at the expense of student academic achievement since they divert the attention of students away from academics and they come with far too many financial costs, both of which incur negative impacts on the academics within a school. The bottomline is that sports are harming the education of students, so a school must make the decision between composing quality sports teams or providing high level academics; both of these choices simply cannot occur simultaneously.

Abstract:  With the increase of competition has also come the need to become bigger and stronger than the opponent.  The use of steroids among athletes has caused the focus of the game to change.  No longer does an athlete want to win by doing their best, but they want to become bigger and have an advantage over the opponent.  Ultimately, all athletes feel that they need to use performance-enhancing drugs to compete at the same level. Despite all of the warnings and information on performance-enhancing drugs, athletes continue to use them and overlook the potential health risks associated with steroids.

However, like most things in this world, if there is a positive side to an issue, there is usually a negative lingering in the shadows. When taking performance-enhancing drugs, the user will receive great rewards, but at high risks. There are major mental and physical risks involved when taking a performance-enhancing drug, especially anabolic steroids. According to the Mayo clinical staff, “Men may develop breasts, shrunken testicles, and infertility. Women may develop a deeper voice, an enlarged clitoris, and increased body hair. Both might experience rage, severe acne, infections, and other health issues,” (Clincal Staff, Mayo). It is evident that there are high risks when taking a performance-enhancing drug. These risks come in various forms, from being mild to

This article focuses on the severity of contact sport related injuries, more specifically head injuries and concussions. This has been a hot top throughout many different professional organizations and it is often discussed how each organization should handle these types of injuries. More recently they have began to administer tests before each season so that when a head related injury occurs, team doctors can more easily determine whether or not the athlete should return to the field and when the appropriate time to do so is. Since the repercussions of allowing an athlete to return to quickly to play can leave long-term consequences, professional, college, and even high school teams have begun to take these injuries more seriously by administering these tests.

Partnership for Drug Free Kids states that, “In the long term, PEDs can cause impotence, worsening acne, balding and “steroid rage.” PEDs can also stunt growth in adolescents, the article notes. More serious effects include heart and liver damage, and an increased risk of blood

There are many long term negative health effects of high impact sports. For example, concussions and C.T.E are two negative health effects of high impact sports. High school tackle football has the highest rate of injuries because of all the hard hit and tackles players take. In the magazine article “Hard knocks” they tell about the long term effects of high impact sports injuries.

If you had a young child, would you let him play tackle football? Football and other high impact sports have been in the news over the last few years, focusing on the negative health problems associated with playing sports. Even though new policies and better equipment are making football safer, parents should carefully consider the dangers of football and other sports before letting their children play because of concussions and brain injuries.

As kids grow up you will notice that their parents are not quite sure what kind of sport they want to sign them up for, so they enroll them in all of them hoping that their child will find a sport that they will continue throughout their life. Kids usually range in sports such as basketball, football, baseball, softball, soccer, dance, and gymnastics. With every youth sport organization comes the negatives and the positives. The negative aspects are that parents can be hard on their children, and receiving a participation trophy or ribbon even though they lost. The positives being that they can begin healthy lifestyles by participating in youth sports. Physically they get the required exercise they need, and will eventually continue that throughout their life. Emotionally, they leave youth sports will a sense of accomplishment, and being seen by college coaches to help boost their self-esteem.

Along with the physical problems there are also mental 54reactions associated with the usage of steroids. This drug becomes very addictive and damaging to the mind. It causes violent episodes which an athlete can claim a legal insanity defense to it. They get so wrapped up psychologically that the negative effects doesn't matter to them. Research has also discovered that steroids cause psychotic side effects sometimes referred to as "roid mania". Along with these are wild aggressive, combative behavior, depression, listlessness and delusions during and after performance. Even though the

Sports are embedded in many American schools in a way they are not anywhere else. One element of our educational system consistently surprises them, “Sports are a huge deal in American schools,” says Earl Smith of the New York Times. The positives have always outweighed the negatives in the case against high school sports. As Sato Kai state, “The benefits of sports as part of the education process are abundant and sometimes beyond quantifications,” According to many academic specialists, sports offer formative and life long lessons such as: discipline, responsibility, self confidence, and accountability. These skills can furthermore excel your later life and give you a greater chance of being employed in a high level job. Participation in high school sports helps your later development as an adult and teaches you life long skills that can't be taught elsewhere.

How young is too young? The effect of sports on children of all ages has always been controversial. In the society we live in today, the focus for these effects is most argued for that of the younger to teen age group. The main concerns people have been mental and physical affects that these competitive sports have on children today. The main question to this argument is whether the positives will outweigh the negatives.

Tyler Clementi, a shy 18-year-old Rutgers University freshman with a passion for playing the violin, jumped to his death from the George Washington Bridge on September 22, 2010. His last words, posted onto his Facebook profile about 10 minutes before he died, were: "Jumping off the gw bridge sorry”(real social edia.com) This was the result of cyberbullying by his college roommate. Constant addiction to social media can adversely affect someone especially kids. In addition to cyber bullying it adversely affect kids physically fitness, socially skills and it is a cyber security risk, as well.

Impact describes the after-effect of a change that occurred in the subject in question. In regards to sports, an impact can describe when a change has been made in the way a sport is played and how that change has affected the game overall. Every sport has a unique set of equipment designed specifically for that sport. It may not seem so but the equipment involved is highly significant in regards to how the game is played. One sport that experienced a significant impact in the way the sport was played is pole vaulting. The most significant change in the equipment was the shift from the straight pole method to the bendable pole method. Initially, the pole vaults were made of hardwood or bamboo, but now they’re made of carbon fiber and fiberglass.

Sports and the general physical activities have been associated with a plethora of benefits. Not so much in correlation with education though. The debate on sports and academic performance relates as to whether sports affect academic performance positively or negatively. Mostly, academics, especially in high school and colleges, require an enormous time commitment. In the same way, sports demand time commitment. Apparently, academics and sports run linearly and either would consume the time of the other. Such would be the argument put forth by the claimants of the negative effects of sports on academic performance. The opponents to the positive correlation of sports and academic performance ground their arguments largely on the time commitment that the two require claiming that sports would consume a student’s time for study hence affecting their academic performance. Proponents of a positive correlation between sports and academic performance summon an extensive range of evidence showing that students who participate in sports perform well in academics. The proponents’ arguments are fetched from the proven benefits of exercise which improve a student’s overall well-being and motivate their academic performance. Opponents would, however, argue that the studies that find athletes and sports persons good at academics do not show how such correlations occur in that other factors could be the actual causes of the correlation and not sports in themselves. Regardless, opponents to the claim that sports affect academic performance positively cannot deny that sports affect the overall well being of any human being. As such, there is no denying that sports affect academic performance positively where a balance among the two is maintained.

Youth sports are an incredibly healthy way for kids to grow and release energy. Children in preschool can begin to take part in sports like dance and soccer, and as they grow older, the lists of sports gets longer. However, there are negatives of sports that are often not talked about by parents, coaches, schools, or the media. As a result, stigmatization occurs, leaving children struggling with sports to suffer alone. With youth sports, elevated levels of stress occur, and as a consequence, mental health can decline. Youth sports can have an adverse psychological effect on young athletes and it is an effect that can be damaging for children for their entire lives.