Sports Stars Has Changed The Views Of Athletics

A great amount of money is constantly being spent by the United States for the school goers than it is done by any other country around the world. According to estimates, it costs around $11,800 per child in comparison to the $4,000-$5,000 in the others countries under comparison (Hood, n.d.). This excludes the huge amount of money which is spent only on the 10 percent children who opt to afford private school education, America spends approximately $8,000 in the form of public money on every child every year. Still, the country is ranked 27th position on the global ranking list of the educational achievement of school, and this position is below Brazil, Cuba, and Mexico.

If a young person watches sports on TV they frequently see taunting, touchdown dances, unsportsmanlike penalties, and bench-clearing brawls. Heck, even if they missed it live, it will be replayed on Sports Center the next morning and viewed over one million times on the Internet. Kids today have grown-up being led to believe that this type of negative behavior is the norm in the upper levels of sports; therefore, it is only a matter of time before this negativity begins seeping into the lower ranks – if it hasn’t already.

In the 2010-2011 school year, the U.S payed 632 billion dollars on “education”, with almost a third of said funding going towards athletic and club funding. Finlands government spends the equivalent of 10 billion dollors on actual education funding, and no money on extracurriculars, so if students wish to participate, they must pay for these extra morning or afternoon events, not interfering with school at all. South Korea’s educational funding, but still spends x amount of dollars on education, and none at all on sports or extracurriculars. The compilation of extraneous education funding takes money away from schools for things like new books, better

In the movie coach carter in the yearin 1999, “Coach Ken Carter returns to his old high school in Richmond, California, to get the basketball team into shape. With tough rules and academic discipline, he succeeds in setting the players on a winning streak. But when their grades start to suffer, Carter locks them out of the gym and shuts down their championship season. When he is criticized by the players and their parents, he sticks to his guns, determined that they excel in class as well as on the court.” At the end of the season, the coach says “l came to coach basketball players, and you became students. L came to teach boys, and you became men.” This team restored the meaning in the term ‘student-athlete’. So you’ve kicked a ball into a net, or hit a ball several hundred yards with a piece of wood, or threw a ball in a hoop…that isn’t that important if you aren’t the best type of person off the court. The biggest problem, in sports in geral, is that there is too much focus at score on the end of the game, and forgetting the importance of the effort used to score every single point on that board. There is great value in sacrificing yourself for something bigger than yourself, and unfortunately, sports have drifted from this meaning. A teams success is determined by the score at the

The national anthem is a time for our country to pay respects to our army for giving us our freedom and protection. The “Opinion: The Athlete as Agent of Change” article by Lonnie Bunch and David Skorton is an article that describes how America feels about athletes who are protesting during the National Anthem by kneeling, raising a fist, etc. Honestly, it does depend on what they are protesting for, although in the athlete’s code of conduct, all athletes are required to stand during the national anthem. Seeing an athlete who is not standing during the national anthem is a disgrace to our country, our soldiers who are fighting for our freedom, and the people of whom have kept this nation at peace the best they can. Protesting is fine.

Professional athletes are the ones that we sports fanatics and fans look up to , when our heroes cheat we must think that its acceptable to do so. These such words by Doctor Richard T. Bosshardt that state “Sports can teach children to young adults so many valuable lessons: the value of hard work, that fitness and mastery of a sport are their own reward, teamwork, dealing with adversity, focus, consistency and on and on. To have this undermined by doping among those

“Show me a good loser and I'll show you a loser,” Vince Lombardi once said. This saying could be the unsung anthem of American sports for children and teenagers. Everyone loves to win. In sports there is always competition. Is there too much emphasis on “the win” for kids and teens? This issue is important because it essentially develops the way children and teenagers think and react; it will affect them later on in life. Too much emphasis on winning is a problem because there is extensive pressure from parents and coaches, and the consequences can be severe.

In most schools today, schools are willing to spend large amounts of money on their successful football or baseball team instead of using the money for classrooms and other upgrades for the school. We could have really nice classrooms and even extra curricular classes, but sports are funded first. Sports in school may even go all out on and drop plans for school upgrades. Schools will receive grants and spend it on a bigger field or equipment instead of classrooms. Everyone is told that playing sports is a great way to get a scholarship. Students that are told this might start to think that using their time for sports is going to get them into college, but it´s just not

Athletes do not conduct themselves in appropriate ways. They do not act in ways worthy of idolizing. Such an emphasis is placed on sports that often times athletes become role models. As Barash stated in his article, kids don’t value or place people as their role model based on “character, intelligence, compassion, decency, or creativity”(Barash). In other words, the role models have nothing an individual can look up to besides a lifestyle. Society’s priority of important characteristics is flawed. In addition to choosing unworthy athletes as role models, society also dismisses any bad behavior that athletes exhibit as part of the game or the nature of the sport. Araton blames the media for exposing the athlete’s negative actions, but the underlying fact is that the media did not force them to do the actions they did. He compares the Pacers-Pistons fight to the Kermit Washington and Rudy T fight, a fight much worse than. The fight resulted in the“shattered

We can pretend that sports are not the main source of entertainment in today’s society. Whether we are athletes playing the sport, avid fans watching our teams and their statistics, or the coaches, it is our character to always be in tuned to what is going on in the competitive sports world. Now, our competitive nature can either give us an edge in life or, in opposition, can cause us to burn bridges. To elaborate, being competitive shows determination, hard work, and is a form of utilizing our gifted talents, resulting in positive outcomes; this is referring to anything in life, not just athletics. On the other hand, being competitive to the point that we are losing teammates, friends, and those close to us shows poor sportsmanship and can have a negative effect on character.

Sports play a major, if sometimes unappreciated, role in the lives of Americans. (Simon, R., Torres, C. and Hager, P. (n.d.). Fair play.) America is a sports crazed culture that has overtime spread throughout the world. Participating in sports can bring new challenges to an individual and teach valuable life lessons along the way. (Thornton, P., Champion, W. and Ruddell, L. (2012). Sports ethics for sports management professionals. Sudbury, MA: Jones & Bartlett.) Concepts can be learned through sports such as hard work, dedication, team building, competition, and sportsmanship, and these skills can be transferred to one’s personal life. Many

An American debatable topic is whether or not athletes can or will ever be legitimate role models for the next generation. Athletes have been and still can be a powerful and effective role model for students as well as people of all ages. “Athletes know kids look up to them, and it’s important for athletes to be responsible (Athletes).” Professional athletes are watched every day on and off the field/court, and it’s important for the athletes to act as role models for kids and teens. Professional athletes have the ability to be role models by donating and helping charities, by setting a good Christian example, and by encouraging kids to be active.

Professional athletes have become a major part of American popular culture. Athletes are idolized as heroes and legends that defy all odds and create history. Some of these athletes perform at such a high level that they are considered worthy of induction into the hall of fame for their sport. However, high performance is not the only criteria a professional athlete should have to meet in order to qualify for a spot in the hall of fame. A professional athlete should have been recognized as exhibiting an extraordinary level of performance, be a moral person who follows the rules of the game, and be retired from the sport in order to be inducted into a hall of fame. With these three methods of rating an athlete’s performance, a professional sports organization can deem whether or not the athlete deserves the high honor of becoming an inductee.

     In our society today it seems like sports rule the land. Everywhere we look, there is some kind of sporting event going on or being televised. Almost everyone could be considered a fan of at least one sport. Some people follow sports like a religion. With such an increased focus on sports, the athlete's performances are put under a microscope. This puts more pressure on athletes to give a winning performance. No longer do athletes play for fun, they play to win. This isn't happening just on the professional level; it is happening on all levels of sport. From little league to backyard football, the goal is to win at all cost. With this increase pressure, athletes are

First, when we participate in sporting events the object of course is to win, but at what cost? Athletes spend time effort and energy to become the best at their event as they can. The need to win, be the best, this can override the consciousness of what is right. Winning is important but not at the expense of ones name or ones word of truth. Once a mans word is lost it is hard to regain.