We all remember the 1998 season in baseball which was one of the biggest and most watched baseball seasons. This was because there were two contenders competing to break the record of "the most baseball home-runs in a single season." This had many people glued to the television to see if ...

Overpaid Athletes Being a professional athlete comes with many perks that go far beyond the sport itself. Players in the fields of basketball, baseball, hockey, and many more, have been known to make a lot of money. Some probably make more in one year than many of us will ever make in our entire ...

Athletes vs. Doctors Who are the real heroes? Professional athletes have a profound role in society. They are seen as modern day heroes. These superstars are idolized and enjoyed by many aspiring young athletes. The sole purpose of a professional athlete in society is for entertainment. The...

One of the major problems in today's sports scene is the use of performance enhancing drugs. Professional athletes are always looking to get a leg up on the competition, but this is taking it too far. Even though certain performance enhancing drugs are banned, the drug tests are not frequent enoug...

Going down a lonely highway, he's the only one on the road. He sees a sign that says "Get Ready," and it makes him scratch his head. As he keeps wondering what the sign means, he can feel his body getting hot. He's getting frustrated at nothing at all. He comes up to anot...

If you followed the Summer Olympics in Athens Greece, you heard about Ukraine's bronze-medal-winning rower Olena Olefirenko testing positive for stimulants after finishing third in the women's quadruple sculls event. Olefirenko and the Ukraine team were stripped of the bronze medal. You also he...

Professional Sports Due to the greediness of sports figures, professional athletes are not punished in the same manner as other professionals are. It is like they are in a completely different group that uses an entirely different set of morals. Te...

Professional athletes bring about an aura of disgust to many American citizens. The "greedy", "overpaid" "criminals" that we call athletes sicken many upper class individuals. Whenever a professional athlete signs a multi-million dollar deal, America always hears ab...

Article # 1 13. Legal Issue The points highlighted in the article show what sports have to change to allow closer ties between amateur and professional sports. I highlighted the most important parts of each section. Including the impact of professional sport, how to address the problem? develo...

VIOLENCE IN SPORTS"...Steeler running back Rocky Bleier, whose war time experiences, not so oddly, offer some insights. To Bleier, there are interesting parallels between survival in war and survival in the NFL. 'The experiences with war injuries and football injuries are quite the same,' he said." ...

Cory Maxson from August Wilson's " Fences" and Kiswana from "Kiswana Brown" face a similar conflict; both of the characters have problems relating to their parents. However not all conflicts are inevitable some problems are brought on themselves.Cory Maxson lives in Pittsburgh in the late 1950's wi...

The problems faced by college athletics range from the athlete becoming "professionalized" to the weight placed on the "scoreboard" to the commercialism of college sports. Until the NCAA and individual colleges' athletic departments can formulate a plan to "de-professi...

Matt KelleyRhetoricSpeech #2 Professional Athletes are OverpaidEvery young child who has ever been involved in athletics has dreamed of being a professional in that sport. Why do you think that everyone wants to be a pro athlete. Sure it is because they get to...

As sports has grown into a multi-billion dollar industry, there has been an explosion in thenumber of lawyers who specialize in sports law. There has been an understandablysignificant increase in the number of persons desiring to represent professional athletes.This increase can be explained by the ...

Does god play a role in Professional Athletics? Does God play a role in Professional Athletics? Christianity plays a very important role in society today. Seeing all the different ways that Christianity affects the way we live our lives, I noticed that professional sports is greatly influenced by Ch...

No matter who you are, where you grew up, or what you look like, there was a time in your life or there will be a time in your life where you feel the demand of excellence from society. Could you imagine being a professional athlete? They not only feel the pressure that they bestow upon themselves, ...

Today's professional athletes make astronomical salaries and their only going one direction. Up. Every year we hear we hear about how a professional athlete just signed a contract worth a record (insert ridiculous amount here) million dollars. Then about the same time the very next year we hear abou...

Sport and MoneyEverywhere you look you see sport intertwined into everyday life, be it on the television, in your back yard, in schools, universities or in social networks. Nobody can escape the influence of sport, either as a spectator or a participant - it's everywhere. But who is to blame for thi...

Physical Activity & Sport in the Lives of GirlsPhysical Activity and Sport are a large part of societies everyday life. Some people take part in physical activity for many different reasons, such as, health benefits, employment, elite athletes, or pure enjoyment. According to the Surgeon General's R...