A Day to Remember In the spring of my freshman year in high school, in the small town of Palatka, Florida, located between Crescent City and Jacksonville, I was competing in a junior varsity softball game for my school. Little did I know what the particular outcome of that game would be. It was a ...

To many kids who play sports, not being able to play because of an injury, can seem like an eternity to them. I was one of those kids. When the doctor told me that I was going to be out for 6-8 weeks because I broke my ankle, I became very upset. Playing sports has meant so much to me that I neve...

Football is a very demanding sport. If you are a strong willed person, who does not mind hard work, then football is the sport for you. I've been playing football for six years and I love every aspect of the game. In this essay I want to encourage you to give football a shot if you haven&apos...

Concussions, they are a problem that almost every athlete that competes in a contact sport goes through. Football, hockey players, and boxers usually can recognize a mild concussion by what they call "Seeing lights," or "Hearing bells." Even though there are 250,000 concussio...

Youth and Professional Sports Why do big sports stars make headline news when they do something illegal, but only receive a small block of print when they do something good for the community? Its things like this that make professional athletes bad role-models for youth all round the country. A...

More teens are becoming overweight, and need to put a stop to it. There are three reasons which cause teenagers to become obese. One reason is they are choosing to eat at fast food restaurants, and are not getting the proper amount of exercise. Instead of eating healthy foods like fruits, salads, an...

More than a sport, soccer is a passion, the feeling of adrenaline, the feeling of a won game, and the sadness and disillusion of a lost game, it's what makes it special. I have played soccer all my life, the first time I participated in a league I was 8 years old then and all the other guys were 11...

Homecoming Night October is normally a very chilly time, but tonight was different it was actually quite pleasant with a great, cool, calm breeze. You could hear the crickets chirping in the meadow across from the football field. Everybody was out enjoying the beautiful weather for...

Big Man on Campus Time sure does fly by awfully fast. I can remember when I was still in kindergarten; drinking orange juice and cookies, playing at recess, nap time, having your own little cubbie hole, bringing your toys in for show and tell, playing heads up seven up when its raining out site,...

Your pain is the breaking of the shell of your understanding." These are the great words of Kahlil Gibran, a famous philosopher from the 1800's. This is the story of great pain and horror. I broke something once. It wasn't a shell as I recall, it was more along the lines of bone, ...

2000 Football Season 9-2! What a season! That was the record of my senior year of high school football. What a way to end my high school football career. The wins that we worked for and earned came with a lot hard work. A football season is not just one season. It consists of three stages combined...

Sociology of Superbowl Football is by all means an American sport and as American as apple pie. Since the day a baby is born in America whether it be a boy or a girl, one of the first words they learn to say is ball, and after a few months they add the word foot in front of the word ball, and...

An experience that shall never escape me is my first week of marching band camp in ninth grade. Held at my high school of the time, this two-week journey will fill your soul with glorious notes and alert your senses to the feeling of music. Everywhere you place yourself for those two weeks at c...

Final draft Were friends since I was eight and he was six he moved from Pawtucket into the house next door to me after he had a fire at the house he lived in before. His name was Patrick Oni I dint know at that time that the friendship that started that day would make such a big imp...

Woodstock '99 Rome, NY will always have a special place in my heart. Even though I was only there for 3 days, it was 3 days that I will always remember. During that time I experienced a wide variety of things and was exposed to a wide variety of people and influences. Rome, NY was a comp...

Touch has grown rapidly in Australia after starting in the 1960's. Many people play Touch today. Touch, comes from two Rugby codes, Rugby League and Rugby Union. Although the skills of Touch are close to those of these two sports, there is low body contact. For example, there are no tackles, scrums...

I'm off to the footy! Melbourne versus the Kangaroos. It should be a good game. I'm walking through the Fitzroy Gardens. I see young families having picnics and young football supporters kicking their footballs and pretending to be their footy heroes. I can remember when I use to do that. ...

With the highly publicized and nationally endorsed N.F.L. in the glorifying spot light, we begin to loose site of the true essence of football. Football is about a teams love and dedication for the game, not some multimillion dollar corporate sellout throwing a ball because he has a Lamborghini paym...