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    Should Sports teams be named after an ethnicity? The controversy over the naming of sports teams after ethnic groups has been boiling since the mid-twentieth century. Sports teams in America, ranging from Pee-wee leagues, high schools, and colleges to Professional sports, have used any enumeration of nick names and mascots by which to represent their team with pride and sometimes even comedy. However, the lines of political correctness have been greatly and maybe even intentionally blurred in terms

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    DRAFT ASSIGNMENT The Effects of Queer Theory On Post-Secondary Sport Teams Shayna Stoymenoff SDS378 Instructor: David Pereira February 29, 2016 The issue of sexuality in sports is highly complex and controversial. Through queer theory, it enables one to challenge traditional and heteronormative assumptions regarding gender and sexuality by reconstructing labels used for sexual identification, emphasizing both physical and mental strength and skill among British male university students and rejecting

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    Team Canada and Women’s Sports Team Canada prepares to win Gold at 1930 Olympic Games in Track and Field Events next year Kaci Grosvold Staff Reporter T he first women’s Olympic Games was held is Paris France in 1922 where eighteen athletes broke records in front of 20,000 spectators. Now seven years later, Canada has organized their first brand new Olympic team to compete in next year’s 1930 Olympic Games in Prague. Initially the sports the women would be competing in were tennis, golf, archery

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    but they do not also need to be disrespected in the public eye. Professional sports teams that have Native American mascots are used in a way that disrespects the people of Native American descent. It also happens at the high school level and gives the young adults with an biased outlook on the culture and history of these people. Any sports team name with an Native American mascot should have to change there name. Teams that have the name like Redskins, Indians, and Red Raiders are racist terms

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    Racial sports team names have been an issue for a long time. Some Native Americans protest racist team names like the Cleveland Indians and the Washington Redskins. The article, “Native Americans: Benching Wahoo Step in Right Direction” supports this argument. However there is an opposing article called “New Poll finds 9 in 10 Native Americans Aren’t Offended by Redskins Name.” that gives quantitative and qualitative data that helps persuade the reader that these names aren’t racially offensive

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    The game was good, but we all know that we need to work on a lot of stuff! Some of girls in our team actually think it's a laughing matter when it comes to playing the game, which isn't good at all! I've witnessed a lot of girls laughing in the game which is really annoying. Please don't think this is a joke cause it's not. Mr Silby is taking his time out of his life to come out and coach our team and we should be grateful. We should never talk over him cause if you were put in his shoes you'll

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    All sports teams have a mascot cherished by fans across the country. However teams like the Washington Redskins and the Atlanta braves have fallen under fire for their references to Native American culture.All sports teams names that reference native Americans should be allowed because they are just names and shouldn't be viewed as offensive, and some teams that change their name or logo may lose some of their fan base. One reason that the names should be allowed is that it is just a name

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    immersed in sports culture. Ever since I was an infant, my parents would take me to watch my brothers soccer games and while I didn’t comprehend all aspects of the game, I knew in my heart that I wanted to be the preeminent soccer player in the world and make my brothers proud. When I was six, my mother registered me into the “Spokane Valley Jr. Soccer Association”. I spent incalculable hours kicking and dribbling around in my backyard envisioning myself as the world’s best player, leading my team to the

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    pre-professional programs through their six colleges. These include the Colleges of Business, Nursing, Education, Fines Arts and Arts and Sciences. The university offers a popular honors program, study abroad opportunities and 19 NCAA Division I sports teams. This mission of the university is to offer students a small and independent community learning environment. The university has students from all states and a healthy number of international students. There are also many adult learners taking

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    Two nfc teams being compared. One has won the super bowl one has not. The Vikings, The Seahawks. They are going head to head in comparing their stats. Stats through the history that will be compared to determine which was better back then. This last season will be compared. We will learn how both of the teams have worked their way to the super bowl. These two teams will be compared. ( ESPN, 2018). The Seahawks team was made in 1976 and have been to 3 superbowls. They have won one of them (that is

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