much the cost for the consumer is very high. The prices of tickets and sports memorabilia have been steadily rising over the years. The average ticket prices for the NHL, MLB, NBA and NFL all rose 5% to 10% this year, according to Jon Greenberg, executive editor of Team Marketing Report. (Mihoces). Athletes are very highly paid due to the fact that there is a large demand of viewers that like to follow their sport. Without the fans, the demand for sports wouldn’t be as high and due to the fact that
full-contact sport. Throughout the years injuries have stayed part of the game and the NFL has taken their time to increase player safety. The NFL should increase player safety because of the injuries have occurred. Some of the injuries may be lifetime injuries. Serious brain injuries have been linked to football as, well as heart issues and other permanent heath problems. In any sport there will be injuries, however with the NFL the risk of getting injured is higher than any other sport. Players in
better. The game is more physical. The sport has never been so competitive. The popularity has reached new peaks, as much that the NFL has thoughts of moving a team to London, England. Additionally, Super Bowl XLVII (47) was one of the most watched television events of all time; an astonishing 108.4 million viewers (The Associated Press). Fans worship their teams and love to see big hits. Football is a contact sport; injuries are no doubtingly part of it. Concussions are one of the many detriments caused
[Dek:] Women suffer from concussions at a higher rate than men, have more severe symptoms and are slower to recover. Why? No one knows for certain. But PINKconcussions is working to find the answer. [Lede:] Like most of us, Katherine Price Sloan Snedaker, Kansas—founder and executive director of PINKconcussions—intends to make the most of her brain while she’s got it. After all, she can’t take it with her. When the end inevitably comes, it’s her hope (and her advance directive) that scientists studying
Long-term effects, life after football. [Transition: Football is America’s most popular sport. Some 2.5 million kids play the game. College football brings in more than 3 billion a year; the NFL rakes in more than 9 billion (Shotz).] 1. The physical injuries contribute to the leading cause of why football equipment needs an upgrade. As stated before, the profit of the sport should allow a funding source to start providing better support and protection, with helmets and
political uproar has taken place within the hockey world as more people are pushing to have fighting completely removed from the game. As a hockey player for over 25 years, I have been through every situation where fighting has occurred within the sport. Being an avid fan, I have noticed a recent uproar on this topic within the last decade. Despite the outcry against fighting in the NHL the league needs to maintain its current stance on fighting. As hockey continues to grow in North America and
High School Sports and their mark on Education Each and every year, millions of students will participate in high school sports. In the same year, there will be millions of people questioning whether or not sports will benefit the students education. “The number of participants in high school sports increased for the 25th consecutive year in 2013-2014 with a record total of almost 7.8 million, according to the annual High School Athletics Participation Survey conducted by the National Federation
Cost of contact sports causing over hundreds of thousands injuries every year. Over 600,000 thousand athletes in contact sport are injured every year. By turning contact sports into non contact sports would reduce injuries over the year. As illustrated by Gina Kolata “using the best data available, they calculated that if contact sports could be made noncontact like flag football. For example there would be 49,600 fewer injuries among male college athletes per year and 601,900 fewer among male high
Millions of people are registered throughout North America for participation in Canada’s national sport and pastime, ice hockey. Most young hockey players have the dream of making it to the National Hockey League (NHL). Because of this incentive to keep striving towards their ultimate goal in their hockey career, they idolize the players in the NHL. Therefore, youth players may obtain certain habits from the elite, whether those habits are good or bad. Some cases are of bad influences, such as young
Football has been America’s favorite sport for many years now, but there is no question that football is a dangerous sport. Over the past few years, concussions have become a major issue for the NFL and just for the game of football in general. This is mainly due to the new research and findings of CTE (chronic traumatic encephalopathy), a brain disease believed to be caused by repeated head trauma such as concussions. The brain of an individual who suffers from CTE gradually deteriorates and will