Team Sports Controversy

The competitive nature of today's sports associations calls for athletes to be aggressive and forceful , both physically and mentally. This aggressive mentality stays with some athletes off the field, and may explain why so many athletes are committing violent crimes.

Sometimes a rivalry can become intensely heated and it may become violent. In the sport of soccer one of the most anticipated matches of the year is none other than Real Madrid vs Barcelona. These two teams are great teams and are the sport’s biggest rivals. Before the match is played the media heats up the rivalry by reporting that the one team is trash talking or undervaluing the other team. At first it is taken lightly as just a publicity stunt but when the players overhear the news, they get over competitive. When the match is being played there is always physical fights between players and it gets out of hand. Not one of these rival matches has passed that a player doesn’t get ejected from the game. In conclusion, this proves how the media plays a large role on the player’s mentality when going into the game and can also cause them to behave in certain ways.

It is not clear if on-field violent behavior leads to off-field violence. It would be somewhat logical to assume that people who become accustomed to using physical intimidation and violence in sport naturally revert to those behaviors when facing conflict outside of sport. However, sport may not be the cause of violence, but rather a result of the athletes’ upbringing or natural disposition, which led them to choose a violent sport to begin with. Drug and alcohol use should also be noted, since they and not sport may be the cause of violence. Alcohol consumption and binge drinking add to the problem of

It was a baseball game day in the heat of July. I can remember warming up on the field for about five minutes and I was already sweating like a dog, I was drenched from head to toe full of sweat. During warm ups all I could think about was drink cold water and just jumping into the lake to cool off after the game. Little did I know that this scorching summer day was going to spark my baseball career for the rest of the season and for the rest of my life. Before every baseball game my dad would either text my mom or call me and would always ask me to hit a homerun for him, and everytime I would tell him I will try my best.

It is hard to believe that something bad could happen during a drive-thru stop at a Mexican restaurant at 2 a.m., but alas, trouble seems to always find Jameis Winston.

An out-group I have encountered was a situation where I joined track my junior year. I went out for track my freshman year then decided to give it another try my junior year. At first I didn’t feel like I was part of the team because I wasn’t part of the in-group that had been out since they were freshman. It felt like I was starting all over again as a freshman. Now thankfully, I have begun to conform with the rest of them and enjoy it. Another situation at my school that I have encountered would be the wrestlers and the basketball teams. At school there is always that tension between the two teams because of who gets more support, or who is doing better. Often times when in an out-group, I don’t always feel comfortable because it’s not people

As children we are taught to include everyone because it is not nice to leave people out. If this is a practice we are taught from a very early age, why is it okay to change that just to win a sporting event? There is an understanding that when you are in middle/high school, there will be tryouts for a sporting team. The children who are good enough, make the team, those who are not, get cut. With the understanding that some players skill level is higher than others, the playing time may not be the same. With that being said, if you are good enough to make the team, then why would you not be good enough to play for your team at least once every game? We all know the benefits of being on a team, learning to cooperate, working together to achieve a goal, helps improve for communication skills and allows youth to exercise. But what if you make this team and don’t ever get to play, are you still seeing these benefits to being on a team? If you tryout and make a school team, then all players should be allowed to play in and participate in every game.

I thought the video did an amazing job in breaking down the politics in sports. The video puts the rest to the myth that sports and politics don’t mix. Politics in sports is especially evident with the military aircraft before games, or having presidents in games. The video challenged me to rethink the cultural politics of sport and its impact on everyday life. Though I normally don’t watch sports, I have a better appreciation for athletes who sacrifice their careers to help others. Jack Johnson and Jackie Robinson risked their lives to play in sports. I thought Tommie Smith and John Carlos, along with Muhammad Ali, were brave to risk their careers and lives to do the right thing. Kathy Switzer, another great example, risked her life for a

The study compares how fighting, promotions, and performance effected the number of people in attendance at games. The main cause for concern in regards to fighting in hockey is the resulting brain injuries. The article states that there are medical professionals on both sides of the issues and that the debate as to whether hockey fights are the cause of these brain injuries. the reason the article discuss this issues is that the hockey leagues believe that fighting is one of the key reasons fan come to the games. the study looks at the amount of fighting by each team as well as those teams win percentages. They found that fighting dose not influence how many games are won. Due to this fact, they could isolate the variables to see if fighting truly influenced attendance. The end results of the study found that “the role of fighting on hockey attendance may have been the key variable” (Rodney, 2013). The end results showed that there were other factors such as promotions which effected attendance more than the amount of fighting in the season. This relates to our chapter and the section on violence in sports. Hockey is known for being a violent sport with lots of reactive aggression leading to fights on the

"These people want to hurt you. It 's frightening. You feel like you 're in a cage out there". Reggie Smith, (Berger, 1990). Spectator violence at sporting events has been recorded throughout history. People who have power over the events, often team owners, indirectly influence the amount of spectator violence by encouraging the factors contributing to violence, in order to benefit themselves. Sale of alcohol, encouraging crowd intensity, creating rivalries, and targeting social groups, are factors affecting the degree of spectator violence and can be proven to be influenced by the owner 's actions. Therefore the blame for spectator violence can be attributed to whoever has power over the sport.

Another problem on sports teams is competition. A fair amount of competition on a team is healthy, it can push the players to be better. When one plays a competitive or contact sport like basketball or football too much competition and turn into anger and jealousy. This could lead to problems that have the opportunity to get carried off the field or court into your school or work

In a strong community, it is of paramount importance for everyone to affirm values like honesty, integrity, teamwork, generosity, and compassion. Experienced with tutoring fellow students at home and at school, I’ve learned to never leave any peer behind through my athletic and spiritual involvement in sports. Thus, to create a more genuine, open, and connected community, I will assist my fellow peers through academic, spiritual, and athletic involvement. This may range from studying with fellow peers to even supporting a school sports game. Hopefully, this will bring the community at Choate closer

Team sport is a type of sport, who need more than two person to do it, such as baseball, basketball, football, etc. The advantages to do team sport is, some people feel more fun, more enjoyable and get more friend. Sometimes, people loved team sport because they can get new relationship then they do individual sport. When I in high school, I join in a baseball team in my school. I very enjoy to play baseball. In baseball, I can found more friend when I join a baseball team. I also found my best friend in there, who I think, he play better than me, but I enjoy it when we play baseball together and make my team better than other team. Sometimes, when I can’t do what the team want me to do or when I get a problem, my friends In a team come to help me and teach me to be better than before, and that the reason why I like do something with a

Violent hooligans have been damaging the image of the football day to day. First of all, the hooligans affect the perception of football because most members of violent hooligans are adolescents, and it makes people think that football promotes the violence. According to a study performed by a web page called “Monographs” said that of every one hundred members of hooligans, at least ninety are teenagers who are growing up with the belief that whether they have to kill someone to

In this paper, I will depend on secondary sources that include academic e-Books, newspapers, artifacts, reports, handbooks, scholarly articles, and journal articles discussing football hooliganism in Turkey and Italy and the hooliganism trend in the world. For example, the article: “Stereotyping among football fans in Turkey”, which is published by the middle east technical university library in Turkey is a useful and credible source that includes data from the Turkish football field and mainly about the hooliganism trend and incidents from some football fanatics in Turkey. Therefore, I use it several times in my research paper to support my arguments with examples from the Turkish football. Also, this paper includes many previous studies from