The Importance Of Sports Diversity

Sport’s are an aspect of life that affect societies across the globe. Athletics affect everyone's life, whether that be playing the sport, watching games, or hearing about a sporting event. There is a big difference between playing an individual sport and players relying on their own athletic abilities versus a team sport when members of the team rely on their teammates to complete each individual's specific responsibility to reach the team's goal. Team sports bring people together in countless ways, and they teach many life skills for the athletes that participate in them. Some of these skills include communication, teamwork, discipline, work ethic, dedication, leadership, and numerous more that will help them in their personal and work

The influence that modern sports have had on society within the past few centuries is profound. Billions of individual’s worldwide tune in through various forms of media in order to support their most revered establishment. Throughout the hardships and adversities that humanity has overcame, and will continue to overcome, one can turn to the world of sports to escape from these destitutions. The athletic activities provide and fuel the competitive spirit found deep within, and permits supporters to have the greatest amount of encouragement and backing of an organization possible. As society has progressed through a multitude of circumstances, the world of sports has adjusted its standing in society in order to stay relevant and withhold

Abstract: Society is affected every day by many different kinds of sports.  These sports often govern society's way of life.  People all over the nation turn their TVs to sporting events, such as golf, during the weekends.   Scott Stossel states that "more than six million Americans enjoy watching golf on the weekends."  Parents  use sports as a teaching tool for their children.  Kids learn teamwork and discipline from team sports programs and  sports have also helped many students with their grades.  Kids who want to compete in school sports are taught to keep their grades up or they won't be able to play, but the greedy coaches and schools often look around grades to keep their "star athletes" in the games.  Adults have

The phrase “More than just a game” is used so often to describe the passion one has for a particular sport, that when you hear it, it may go in one ear and out the other. From the outside looking in, some may not view sport as beneficial beyond exercise or pure entertainment purposes. To others, it provides significant incentives that last far longer than just the duration of your participation. Sports serves as a fundamental aspect of American culture and their values are significant when it comes to their effect on economics, politics, mass media, and public influence. Athletics attempts to help us understand the values and ethics that apply not only to athletes, but to an entire society.

It centers on teaching virtue, including such ideas as liberty, respect, and moral courage. Joe Ehrmann fights for the educational value of athletics “and describes it as a classroom and thus cocurricular rather than extracurricular. “The term ‘cocurricular’ designates sports as an educational activity with the potential to develop the social, academic, moral, civic competency and emotional, of every student athlete. Extracurricular sports merely need players and a coach; Cocurricular, a classroom after class, sports demand student-athletes and a teacher-coach” (Ehrmann, 2011 p 159). Ehrmann describes the many virtues and how they can be applied both inside the athlete and outside. Included are values, such as justice, empathy, and

Over the years, we have seen colleges and universities benefit extremely from their sports programs. Every year a great team brings tremendous amounts of revenue for their university. However, as these universities increase their finances, their athletes are falling behind financially, academically, socially and personally creating a huge burden upon them. College/university athletes practically work overtime for their academic institutions. While many perceive student athletes as living ‘the life’ because of sports, the reality remains that they suffer from social, personal, academic and psychological stress. They constantly live their lives by strict schedules to avoid falling behind in their multiple responsibilities .Student athletes face various pressures, yet they are not frequently rewarded; therefore their academic institutions should reward them financially, beyond scholarships for their participation in collegiate sports.

Sports in conjunction with academics are capable of creating a balance that makes for a well rounded citizen and healthy, happy employee. Issues in the mix often come from the balance itself. Many students find themselves overcommitted to sport while others find they are not able to compete. I will examine issues in interscholastic and collegiate sport.

The value placed on the importance of winning in professional sports has hit an all-time high. The astronomical amount of money being spent in the entertainment field of athletics has dictated a win-at-all-costs mentality that has trickled all the way down to negatively affect our youngest athletes - the prepubescent. The athletic world has forever been exploiting our youth as a source of athletic potential, sacrificing the health, safety and welfare of these child-athletes to satiate the intense nationalistic pride of the country and more dishearteningly in the name of the Almighty Dollar. This has caused coaches and athletes to take drastic measures which are sometimes illegal and usually

Professional sports have evolved into one of the most influential aspects of modern culture. The unscripted nature of competition, combined with larger than life figures, like Peyton Manning and Lebron James, has inevitably resulted in people looking towards sportspeople for guidance and inspiration. However, this unintended consequence is where the controversy surrounding professional athletes arises. With such a tremendous level of influence, recent scandals have caused people to question whether the social position of athletes somehow obligates them to behave in a manner that conveys a positive message to others. In other words, spectators, such as Bethany Withers of The New York Times, argue that the influential nature of being a star athlete

Jesse Edelman, also from The Scholastic Scope questions our country’s morals when “ we pay athletes millions more than we pay people who save lives” (Edelman 1). His argument brings up an important question; Is our entertainment more important than our safety? Our country should be paying live savers more than game players. In a student run newspaper from Nova Southern University, the issue of how athletes use all the money is heavily emphasized. Ashley Figueroa says that although some athletes use their money to help others and represent themselves as role models, some also “[use] steroids to artificially enhance their performance, [cheat] on their significant others or [abuse] their families” (Figueroa 1). This shows that hard working, dedicated athletes can very quickly ruin their lives because of the amount of money that they are paid. In the same newspaper, Figueroa brings it to our attention that “the salary of one professional athlete would be enough to help an entire city in a third world country overcome poverty” (Figueroa 1). If one athlete’s salary can do that, imagine what the entire league’s could

What is America? America is summer time hayfields, backyard barbeques and front lawn lemonade stands of those young entrepreneurs; but most importantly, America is sports and its fanatics. Whether it be under the Friday night lights of a hometown, high school football game or at a national level, both fans and players take winning seriously, and is often considered sacred. Red Saunders, former football coach of the UCLA Bruins said, “Winning isn’t everything, it’s the only thing.” However, is that really the case? Though it is an added bonus to win while playing sports, it is not the only thing because through athletic players build character, become more employable and establish life-long networks.

Participation in sports has steadily increased throughout the decades. As more and more major professional sports franchises continue to eclipse the one billion mark in value, the fame and wealth that can be obtained by reaching the profession ranks becomes irresistible to many students who have a passion for athletics. For some of these students, reaching the professional ranks is way to pull their family out of the lower class, and into the higher echelon of the upper class. For others, simply competing against the best in the world is a dream come true. The National Federation of State High School Association (NFHS), as reported a twenty-six year increase in the participation of high school athletics (NFHA, 2015). As the general popularity of athletics increases, so does the level of participation in high school athletics. The odds of making the professional ranks, however, are slim to none, as only 6% of high school student-athletes go on to play at the collegiate level (NCAA, 2015). Therefore, states, communities, educators, and parents continue to stress academics before athletics. In fact, when we address athletes in school, we address them as student-athletes.

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College athletics had its beginning in 1852, with a crew race with Harvard and Yale as its participants. (Rentz, Hamilton H, 2011). The National Collegiate Athletic Association has reported over a half million students who participate in college athletics each year. (2014) Also all one has to do is go to their universities athletic department to see the melting pot of diversity represented in all the different sports, and with diversity brings diverse needs. “Athletics is often referred to as the front porch of the institution and our student-athletes are the hosts” (McCollum 2009). Student athletes are generally thought of as the ambassadors of the university. Athletes and athletics are also what most people associate with various colleges

In an ever-changing society, Humans will always find new ways to change and advance, they will also always find ways to express who they are and how they perceive themselves. One way humans have been recently expressing this is by identifying themselves as new and different genders. Though with this form of expression brings up issues that need to be resolved in order to advance as a society. One area in which this topic is becoming a dilemma is in scholastic sports. Teen athletes who are undergoing a transgender operation, or consider themselves a different gender than the one they were born with have been feeling discriminated or out of place as many state athletic governing commissions will not allow them to compete in their perceived genders