What Are The Pros And Cons Of Being A Sport

Video games have been around for many years and so has competitive gaming. The first video game was created around 1970 and was Pong. Pong required one or two players to play. The players would play next to each other and the game required both players to move the courser to the ball and knock in to the other player’s side. Pong was the first competitive video game because you could play with another person. The video game industry now is a very big market and is suspected to be an 86 billion dollar industry in 2016 (A Classification Of Business Models In Video Game Industry). For the past couple of years video competitions have gotten really popular and now there is a franchise called eSports that hosts gaming competitions in big areas. “The past several year’s eSports have seen meteoric growth in dozens of markets, attracting tens of millions of viewers each year in the United States, alone” (Hollist). Esports is made up of many different games and each game has different teams that specialize in the game that they are competing in. E-Sports 89 million viewers in 2014 and is suspected to grow to 145 million in 2017. ("Red Bull Media Readies ESports Studio for Prime Time."). Competitive gaming should be recognized as a sport because each team has a sponsor. The sponsors pay for all associated costs of the player’s gaming including, but not limited to, plane tickets, hotel rooms, and food. In return the teams have to wear the

With around 45 million kids enrolled in some type of organized sport, it’s clear that youth sport is a massive part of American culture. Most people remember playing a rudimentary form of soccer or basketball during elementary school, when rules weren’t too important, and having fun was the only goal. While nearly everyone can recall playing some kind of organized sport during their childhood, a very small percentage of people stick with sport beyond middle school, and even fewer go on to play after high school. The amount of children who quit organized sport during adolescence has raised questions about the psychological risks of youth sport. Youth sports in and of themselves are not an inherent problem; however, issues do arise when children are asked to take on too much at too young of an age. While there are risks associated with youth sport, organized sports also provide

When people typically view professional athletes they see the lavish lifestyle, they see the big contracts, and figure that they must be set up financially for the rest of their life. This is not the case though as becoming a professional athlete is similar to hitting the lottery just genetically. Being an athlete creates a large amount of income early in life, but that income decreases to zero once retirement comes around. The documentary Broke is a compilation of interviews and incidents that occurred which showcase the poor money management done by professional athletes. Whether the athlete played basketball, baseball, football, or was a boxer it did not matter there were multiple instances where an athlete that made millions in

Each year in the United States, more than 36 million school-aged children participate in an “organized sport” (“Youth Sports Statistics”). Especially over the past few years, many studies have proved or disproved the idea that sports are beneficial for young kids. Those studies have found that youth sports have both positive and negative effects on young children, and research shows parents and coaches have the greatest effect on a child’s experience.

After reading the two articles, "What's the Name of High School Football" and "Are High School Sports Good for Kids" and also watching the video "Kids and Sports" If the mayor or even the school board had a meeting about not keeping funding school sports, then that is not okay. My reasons are, Kids won't have fun, no academics for the college records if they want to get in an athletic college for sports, and kids won't interact that much to other kids. Do you want the school to be boring and no fun for kids?

Resolved: NCAA student athletes ought to be recognized as employees under the Fair Labor Standards Act.

Will going out for more than one sport help athletes? Some may say no and some may say yes. Even though some athletes think it is better to only play one sport in high school, statistics and examples prove it is better to be a multisport athlete.

Continuing on, between the fact that out of country professional gamers get the same visa as out of country athletes and the fact that gaming can earn more money than being in the NFL, also that more people watch the video game championships than the MLB games, It's pretty safe to say that video games SHOULD be considered a sport.

High School sports are safe havens for people all over America. Kids grow up and dream of bringing home state championships for the town they grew up in. However, more often than not they fall short. Public schools are at an extreme disadvantage in high school sports due to the simple fact that they draw from a set area of kids, while private schools can pick and choose. This leads to a question if whether public and private schools should be in a separate division for high school sports. Public and private schools should be in a separate division due to their ability to recruit, absolute dominance in sports and dwindling attendance of fans at sporting events.

There has been many occasions where high school teachers have to make a hard decision when an athlete is failing, what should they do. I believe that no high school athlete deserves any help from their teachers in order to play. They should be able to complete the circumstances needed in school if they truly wanted to play the sport these athletes are in. If this idea was allowed in high school what will happen to these kids later on in life like in college, will they be able to accomplish the goals at that point when it matters most?

Dean Clark Carter, I am a junior student here at Charleston Southern University. I write in regards to an issue I have noticed on campus and would like to bring to your attention; should student athletes receive special academic treatment? I believe that CSU should hold a student forum about this issue so that all students gain knowledge about the topic, can share and debate opinions, and create possible solutions.

Whether it’s playing video games or watching video games, we get filled with an intoxicating feeling to play or watch more. Throughout generations, there has been an increase of people playing video games and about half the population in the United States plays video games. Since 1980, video games are taken to a different level with eSports, which is competitive electronic gaming tournaments with other competitors. In 2000 to the present , eSports grew in popularity and became known worldwide because of the game “League of Legends”. In 2011 “LoL” tournament ranked over 1.6 million views worldwide and during a “LoL” championship in 2015 over 36 million people were viewing the game. ESport raises this question: “Do video games counts as sports?” Video games do not count as a sport because it does not match the criteria of a sport,video games are luck-based, and are unhealthy.

It’s one thing to say you did something, but an entirely different thing to show you did something. MCWS Cup is a soccer league that I run. For the past five years, I’ve been running this league for my local community. At the beginning, we were very small, but over time we grew and improved. I’ve gained many experiences running this league. My artifact, which is the website I manage, is a physical reminder of the things I have learned by running the soccer league. These are things I would not have learned without it. My experience with running the league was special. It was a daunting task to be able to organize everything. It made me realize how many components were involved in organizing large activities like a soccer league. Jerseys were

Video games are not a sport because they can be harmful to one’s health. Video games are usually played for hours on end in the comfort of a game chair, using hand-held controllers. For example, even in many gaming competitions, the competitors sit down while they play. An article written by Terence J. Munoz states that, “According to the Oxford Dictionary, a sport is an activity involving physical exertion.” For example, many famous gaming consoles, such as X-box, use hand-held controllers as the primary source of interaction for the game. The same article from Terence states that “Unless you count moving fingers as physical exertion, games don’t fall under this definition of a sport. If left unmonitored, excessive gaming could lead to serious

Competitive gaming, also known as e-sports, is becoming a worldwide phenomenon. With huge events and tournaments that are watched by millions of passionate fans, many people are beginning to question whether playing video games can be considered a real sport. Even though e-sports may not be as physically demanding as traditional sports like football and basketball, the structure, strong fan base and the requirements to seriously contend in the competitive gaming scene legitimize it as a “real” sport.