Imagine you\'re a little girl in the 1930s and \'40s. What do you play? Dolls, house, cooking in the kitchen with Mom? Not Babe Didrikson. As a little girl, she was playing basketball, softball, baseball, and other sports. In her life, she played basketball, baseball, softball, tennis, track and fie...

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 ...

Sports in America What does the word sports mean to Americans? To one person it could mean a since of togetherness while sitting in the stands with their father, watching their favorite baseball team hit home runs. To another, looking up to their favorite basketball player as a role model type, ...

Going to a Cardinals game is an experience that combines a number of appeals for the attendee. Some of the most enjoyable parts of the experience are intangible-the thrill of the game, being part of a huge crowd that is rooting for your team, and the vicarious excitement of being part of the action...

Fit or Not Fit Everyone knows the importance of being fit. Even with this knowledge most people today don't get as much exercise as they should. Studies show students from grade school on get far less exercise than they did 20 years ago. Most of them cannot do five sit-ups, run three laps...

Heroism What is a hero? A hero is a person who shows great courage and nobility. A hero may be a parent, an athlete, a politician, a war veteran, or maybe even a teacher. The term hero is probably overused, but the person the term describes probably appreciates it. I'm sure people don&a...

Baseball, the American pastime, is one of if not the most difficult sports to play successfully. In contrast, playing basketball involves shooting a ball into a stationary opening its size. Further, golf takes enough skill to hit a small ball from the ground at point A to the hole in the green a...

Although alcohol sometimes causes rapid poisoning, frequently leads to long-term addiction, and alwqays treatens self-control. our society encourages drinking. Many parents, by their example, give children the impression that alcohol is an essential ingredient of social gatherings. peer pressure t...

Should have spent less time looking good and more time feeling good. Should have drove the speed limit and enjoyed the scenery instead of speeding and looking for cops should have kept in contact with old freinds. Shouldn't of said i'm busy everytime my little cousin wanted me to teach him play base...

My future as an architect. That is now my goal that I hope to reach hopefully very soon, at first I hadn't considered architecture has a career. When I started high school I was really thinking about becoming a chef because I like to make my own creation in food but then I changed my mind when I exp...

Your environment and the people you grow up with may be your house but it doesn't necessarily mean it is home to you. It's not your parents or the people you have to live with. The people you live with aren't the people that influence who you are; it's the people you look ...

Dietary supplements: Beneficial or Hazardous? On any given day, a student athlete could walk into a trainers or coaches office holding up a bottle and ask "Hey coach, does this stuff work?" This young athlete, playing three sports a year, is referring to the dietary supplement called ...

Millions of people watch sports contests such as baseball, basketball, and football every day. None of those millions want to see an unfair game. Letting athletes take the easy way out and not making them work hard to reach their peak performance is hurting the athlete and letting those who watch th...

1. Common a. Belonging equally to or shared equally by two or more; joint b. Having no special designation, status, or rank Antonym: uncommon Synonym: surface a. When it comes to wining, Pensacola high school is the most common team wining all their games, and that's why they go to the f...

Economic Effects of the NBA Lockout The National Basketball Players Association lockout greatly affected the United States economy. Greedy team owners and greedy players fighting over large amounts of money caused the lockout. In March of 1998, team owners felt that they were paying players t...

Intimidation and violence have all too frequently been common occurrences in high school and college sports. While journalists report it, and sociologists and psychologists attempt to explain it, it is the athletic-program administrators who are held accountable for sports-violence related incid...

Steroids And Athletes What kind of role model is Mark McGwire? Many people are familiar with his seventy homeruns in one season, but do they know that he has been using androstenedione, a type of steroid that boosts testosterone levels? While it is perfectly legal in the Unit...

Great teams are made through many hours of hard work in the gym. I can tell about my experience last year playing basketball for Trinity Valley Community College, winning the NJCAA National tournament in 2004, being undefeated the whole season, 36-0. For all this happened wasn\'t an easy job. Let me...

Present Technology Straps that held the bottom part of the shoe to your foot used to be the way that shoes were made. They sure have come a long way, considering that they now have different brands and styles. These days, shoes are so advanced that they even have roller blading shoes. They did ...

In 1891, Dr. James Naismith, professor at Springfield College in Massachusetts, came up with a different kind of sport called basketball. He was asked to invent a game that could be played indoors between the baseball and football seasons. Through the use of the YMCA, Naismith was able to ma...

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Webster's dictionary defines discrimination as a social, economical, political or legal distinction made between individuals or groups that makes one have the power to treat the others unfavorably. It can also be defined as the act or policy of treating someone differently, setting them apart o...

Television: The 'good' and the 'bad'. Without television and its many advantages, where would the world be at this very moment? Certainly not in the information age that it is in now. The impact that television (A.K.A T.V.) has had on mankind in the last fifty years, is ...

Fail to SucceedThe greatest basketball player of all time was once asked what made him so successful. Michael Jordan then replied " ... I fail, therefore I succeed". This theory not only applies to those who fly, but also to mortals. When one fails the bitter taste lingers forever, whereas, when ...

Doctor or Athlete"I don't like to lose, and that isn't so much because it is just a football game, but because defeat means the failure to reach your objective. I don't want a football player who doesn't take defeat to heart, who laughs it off with the thought, 'Oh, well, there's another Saturday.' ...