Technology Influence On Sports

Sports have been around for ages and technology has greatly affected them. Technology has made sports easier to play, coach, and officiate. Advancements in technology has drastically changed the Olympic games, the equipment used by athletes, training, and athletics as a whole.

Although traditional sports with testosterone high clashes and full grown men butting helmets are still popular across the country, their prominence has started to fade from the younger generation. This is perhaps a result of the decline in sport activities. Fifty years ago sports were played by almost every kid-regardless of whether that kid made it onto his high school basketball team, they were simply a way of life. Naturally, as the children of that generation grew up they took an interest in watching the sports they had loved during their childhood, now played by professional athletes. Watching sports is both an exciting, adrenaline pumping present day activity, as well as a reminiscent reminder of the long summers they spent playing baseball back in the sixties.

Over the last two decades the growth of youth sports has reflected the popularity of professional sports in our society. Sporting events and news are available to the public twenty-four hours a day on television and radio: sports are an enormous industry. The outstanding popularity of the sports industry has profoundly affected youth sports organizations. An estimated twenty-five million children age six through eighteen participate in at least one school or community based athletic program. These numbers increase exponentially as the age of boys and girls entering sports keeps falling. In order to supervise, teach and manage these athletes about 2.5 million coaches spend an average of eighty

Safety and equipment have come a long way in football in order to prevent brain injuries. A very important piece of equipment used to prevent brain trauma is the helmet. The helmet has evolved a lot over the years, even more in the past decade. The Helmets main purpose use to be just to stop skull fractures, then they added the facemask to prevent facial injuries. Concussions are more of a recent concern (Hand 1). Overconfidence in the helmets' protective power prompts many NFL athletes to deliver and accept hits that would have killed players of previous generations. Now the helmet is being revolutionized. Helmets aren't only being created to stop skull and face fractures but they are being created to help prevent brain damage such as concussions now. Helmets have gone through testing to see how to design a better preventative helmet. These newer helmets are being designed to reduce the amount of force that is being applied to the head by a hit that is received (Vandantam 2). Virginia Tech football has been monitoring helmet collisions since 2003, courtesy of Dr. Gunnar Brolinson. Dr. Gunnar Brolinson has outfitted the teams helmets with six sensors and a small antenna that records and transmits data to a computer on the sideline. This information collected is crucial because it will help find better ways to design a helmet that will prevent concussions(Goldman 1). Equipment isn't the only important part of football that can help prevent concussions.

Sports of old were merely competitive activities rooted in heroism and romanticism. Sports activities today, however, have no such innocence or simplicity. Currently in America, the activities that make up our sports culture is not only the competitive events themselves but the processes and issues that underlie and surround them. Entwined in our sports culture is the giant business of mass broadcasting. Indeed, sports and the media go hand in hand like peanut butter and jelly, like Mickey and Minnie, Darth Vader and Luke. They are intertwined and depend on each other to continue to grow. Sports media includes television, radio, magazines, newspapers, books, films, and, now, most importantly, social media devices provided by the

As the popularity of soccer increases, controversy in relation to safety concerns continues to rise as well. Due to the ineffectiveness of protective headgear among soccer players, athletes should focus on alternatives to successfully prevent injuries. Concerned parents, coaches, and athletes should heightening rules and regulations and should properly evaluate the accuracy and effectiveness of the soccer gear (i.e., balls, gloves, etc.) being used in order to reduce chances of serious

Technology has impacted sports in several ways. With helmets being an important part of the uniforms and providing extra protection for football players there was one that had my attention which the Riddell Smart Helmets. Smart helmets were designed with a five zone sensor pad, which are used to help measure the impact of what a palyer endures during a game as well as practice. The smart helmets are also able to detect the force.

On August 20 of 1920, the National Football Association was founded. With this being the start of football in America there was very little known about the effects that the physical aspect of the game had on its players. The first helmet ever used to play football was a leather pad, in fact it wasn’t really even a helmet. Helmets weren’t even mandatory in college football or the N.F.L. until after 1939 (Levy, Michael L, Ozgur, Berry, Aryan, and Apuzzo 656). By this time over 18 deaths and 159 serious injuries had already occurred in the sport stated in the (“Birth and Evolution of the

If an athlete who plays a competitive sport is asked if they would like to improve in their sport, the answer will always be yes. There is not one athlete that is satisfied with their current ability and they are constantly working toward the idea of “better”. In Roslyn Kerr’s Sport and Technology: An actor-network theory, she states, “there is an undisputed link between the goal of sport and that of scientists, with both groups searching for greater human achievement. In sport, this is often achieved through improving and enhancing already existing equipment and technology” (2016). Kerr goes on to state that one would think that these technological advancements would be

Have you ever been really mad about a call the referee has made and wished it could be changed? Well on August 14th, referees used video technology for the first time ever, to make 2 very important decisions in an MLS soccer match. Did you know on average, a referee makes around 1-16 wrong calls per game? In the past, a call in soccer was just based on what the referees saw but now they can have a referee review it on instant replay and make the right call.

In the 1960s, helmets were reengineered on the inside to protect the head better. Due to the physicality increase of the game in the 1970s, the plastic shell was fortified for better protection, while face masks continued to evolve. Today, football helmets are a hard plastic shell with an inflatable liner to protect against an injury to the head. The face shield also varies by the player’s position. Helmets also have padding and special systems to best absorb shock impact. The newer improvements reduce the impact all being concentrated in one place (The Technology of Football, Science at Work in Football).

Technology has changed sports over the years, without a doubt. Many rules have changed because of technology. Not only rules have changed, also decision-making has been affected by technological improvements. However, a lot of technological improvements are very expensive and therefore cannot be applied in every sporting event. Especially amateur athletes and clubs do not have resources to apply the newest technologies in their sporting events. The question arises if this is fair or not. If people that play amateur sports want to become professional athletes, and they are physically capable of making that step, there should not be other obstacles such as technology

This sport came from England, and it is called “Football”. Soccer is a Team Sport. Basically consist in playing two teams, one against the other one. This sport is considered the most popular in the world, since there are 270 million of people that play this sport, either in a club or just for fun. In the field, there are 11 players of each team and some referees that are tasked to make the rules be respected and done correctly and in this way the match would be played in the best way possible, there are also many other players of each team outside the .

helmet-to-helmet contact, yet concussions still remain “a major source of long-term disability” (2) for players of the game. There is also a high incidence of head injuries in former players, with “79 percent of all football players they studied in autopsies” (3) having exhibited CTE. The chance of obtaining these severe head injuries increases with more years of play, which is why there is a logical argument that not playing football at all is the best option available. Football is a very physical sport that causes a large sum of concussions yearly despite efforts to decrease this amount, making it a valid proposal that football is too dangerous for people to partake in and should thus be banned completely.

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