Persuasive Essay On Athletes In Sports

Many people argue that competitive sports raise numerous amounts of pressure on the youth making them distracted from things such as their education and because it can cause severe injuries, but some people argue that youth should play competitive sports because it teaches major life lessons that can help with many different aspects of their future such as college, getting a job, and many more. Playing competitive sports also improves your physical strength, another physical aspect of playing competitive sports is decreasing your chance of being obese or having disease. If you don't prefer to play competitive sports there are alternative options such as biking or walking to school. In an HT Health article “Sports Seen As Key Weapon in Fighting Teen Obesity” it says that in a study with 1,700 kids, ten percent walked or biked to school 3 ½ days a week,, in the study they found that biking or walking to school lowered the risk of being obese by 33%. I argue that kids should play competitive sports because of the important life skills taught through these sports and the physical benefit of playing sports. In this paper I will explain how communication, time management, and lowering the risk of being obese; supports my claim, “Kids should play competitive sports”

America’s baseball diamonds, soccer fields, hockey rinks, and basketball courts have never been so busy with children. The number of kids involved in an organized sport is not what is so groundbreaking. It’s the way in which children are playing or how their parents are arranging for them to play that may be cause for concern (Ferguson). Much controversy surrounds youth sports with the biggest disagreements coming over parental involvement and the intensity of play. Although there are many benefits for team participation, there is a growing fear that the negatives are starting to outweigh the positives.

The Intelligence Square U.S. held a debate about whether or not the government’s rules on performance enhancing drugs should be ban in professional sports. For the debate they had Radley Balko, Investigative Journalist, Norman Fost, Professor of Pediatrics and Bioethics at the University of Wisconsin, and Julian Savulescu, Uehiro Professor of Practical Ethics at the University of Oxford argue for the motion. They argue the fact that the medicines we take on a daily basis from the pharmacy are also performance enhancers. This goes back all the way to the Romans who once used herbs to improve themselves for battle, making them believe that the only exception that separates this from steroids is that it is illegal. On the other hand, you have

I think it would great for college athletes in the NCAA football video game to receive compensation from the game because the colleges shouldn’t be the only ones benefiting from the game. There are athletes that get injured playing college football and their careers are done, so I feel it would nice for athletes to receive something from playing the game of football, especially after college. If college athletes that don’t make it professionally in a sport could receive compensation for their time playing sports, it would create opportunities for them to start businesses and become involved in other careers.

Everyone is a nerd about something. Whether it be the more traditionally “nerdy” comic books and video games, movies, clothes, or, yes, sports. That guy that can rattle off every pitcher’s ERA from his favorite baseball team in the last ten seasons? He’s a nerd, too. Now that it’s 2017 and video games and superhero movies are for everyone, it’s time to stop feeling superior to people based on how they spend their personal time. It’s time to let everyone enjoy their hobbies in peace.

No matter the sport, most athletes seek every competitive advantage to make it to the top. One of the main advantages is the performance athletes gain through drug use, and a big question today is the real purpose behind the drugs. Is an athlete truly just trying to enhance his or her performance to make it to the next level, or is there a deeper meaning, a problem with body image and how the public views these athletes, or a combination of both? According to an article on the Dilemmas of Doping, the rules in sports have two effects, “One is private: rules produce an entertaining game that generates private benefits for players, owners, and especially spectators. The other is social: rules tend to reward play that exhibits self-discipline, sacrifice for the good of the whole, and fair play.” ( qtd in Bird, Edward J and Gert G. Wagner). An athlete not only is rewarded by fair play, but winning without cheating, using drugs, etc. is the ultimate feeling of accomplishment. These athletes may have a sense that without stimulants they will never reach the top and feel like they have no other choice.

I’ve never been the type to have been interested in our basketball team, any other sports offered at my school, or even gym classes. During my time in middle school through high school, our basketball team was very important to my district. That isn’t saying that these parts of nearly every school district, aren’t important. I’m a firm believer that regardless of the importance of these classes, a student can always learn a valuable lesson from these. There, of course, would be people that would disagree with my decision but if I was in charge of my district, I would cut funding to sports, and gym courses. I choose sports and gym classes because the amount of children that sign up for spots is lower today in my district. The number of participates

The principle of the sport is that every human works with the strength they are willing to attain, but doing this artificially is cheating. While there are plenty of advantages people are predisposed to like genes that give them superior fast-twitch muscle strength or long legs and arms, a pure sport by the rules should be down to physical advantages only altered by how hard athletes work for medals. Since the beginning of all games between humans, dishonesty has been discouraged. To alienate those principles could backfire when more developed countries immediately overpower weaker countries who can't afford such medical endeavors. And there's no coincidence that countries are shamed for this practice. Yet some have reason to argue that if drugs and alterations are legalized in sport this could actually be safer for athletes. Who rather than working under sketchy sources can be provided with information to make the best decision about the drugs based on specific needs. But, had there not been drugs involved in be out of tradition but integrity that athletes honor what it takes to be the best instead of cheating to get

An individuals god-given talent is what makes watching professional sports entertaining or is the use of steroids and PED’s? As a sports fan this is what runs through an individuals mind , steroids has forever changed the world we live in and the people around us. Therefore , making the world we live in fueled by drugs contacts instead of individual skill and talent . Many individuals don 't really understand the real consequences and the harmful effects .God-given skill and natural ability is very hard to find because ones skill is determined on who may have the best drug contact instead of who has the best god-given talent. In order to take a stand we must teach a lot of individuals what happens when

In horse races the horses are motivated to go faster by their riders flogging them, but athletes motivate themselves. They do whatever it takes to become just a little faster or just a little stronger. We don’t accept subpar performances from pro athletes. No, they have to be the best. They are expected to be superhuman. And because of these unrealistic expectations we have made it where athletics is all about the genetic potential of a person. How strong and how fast their genes will let them be. However, if we allowed athletes to use performance enhancing drugs, sports would no longer be a genetic lottery, we wouldn’t be rewarding people for being born a certain way. Instead we would be rewarding people for way more that. We would be rewarding

Aaron Harrison, guard for the University of Kentucky, made a contested 3 pointer with only 2.6 seconds left in the game to beat the #2 seed Michigan. The unexpected 75-72 victory took the Kentucky Wildcats, #8 seed, to the final four and was a victory en route to the national championship game that they ended up losing. For Harrison’s game-winner, Kentucky Athletic Director and basketball coaching staff made $329,166 in bonuses. This money is only a fraction of the revenue that was created for University of Kentucky throughout the tournament. These schools generate millions of dollars yearly, because they are playing in front of filled arenas on national television. The world of sports is very marketable and profitable, with some

The history of athletes using performance enhancers can be traced back to the days of the first Olympic athletes. The ancient Olympians in 770 BC-393 BC would do things that today we would call cheating, but were acceptable for them. Evidence showed they would drink wine potions, use hallucinogens and even experiment with herbal medications all in an effort to enhance their performances (Jenkins). These kinds of practices continued all the way until the early 1900’s when the first substances were banned by the International Association of Athletics Federations (IIAF). This evidence shows that even in the infant stages of sports, athletes have always tried to find things to take their performance to the next level, but were never looked upon as breaking the rules.

Doping in sports happens all the time around us whether you want to believe it or not. It is also not occurring just in a few sports it is virtually all of them. It happens from cycling in the Tour de France, the World Series in baseball, and to the Olympics, it happens everywhere. The drug that has become very popular throughout the sports community was created in the 1950’s when bodybuilders wanted to gain a new level of muscle mass and more quickly. This drug has made its way through the sports community and it is becoming to the point where it is time we either allow them or do something about it to make it stop. “There are several types of performance-enhancing drugs: anabolic steroids, stimulants, human growth hormone and supplements.”

Many People think that the collegiate sports are just a form of entertainment for them and the players but the players think of these sports as a job. The NCAA is the National Collegiate Athletic Association and it is the center of making all of the rules for collegiate sports. They decide on if student athletes are employees under the Fair Labor Standards Act or not. Student athletes do not get enough recognition and seen as students or entertainment but not as employees. Although some people do not believe student athletes deserve the recognition of being employees, others know they should because these students fall under the title employee from the requirements placed by the Fair Labor Standards Act.

that have a designated winner, and sports that have a designated loser builds character in real life. However, some cases have shown that it causes emotional damage because it puts too much pressure on athletes. I believe all youth sports need a winner. Losing prepares athletes for the real world issues, and a winning team is more likely to be noticed by college scouts, and many high schoolers dream of playing sports in college. I believe that if you want to please your team; you will do your job. Which goes hand in hand with what a just individual owes themselves to a society. Meaning that a player should never give up on their team because it is their job to perform at a high standard.