Sports have played a role in the lives of millions of people all over the world. For some people, the stint is brief. For others, sports are not just hobby but become a way of life - a part of who they are. Some people reach a level of love and obsession for a team or individual athlete that it star...

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...

Watching college athletes play sports is one of America and Canada's favorite pastimes. People love the thrill of hard competition and the fact that these athletes will always give 100% effort. College athletics has always been at the heart of this. It has always been something more pure than p...

Sports have played an important role in today's society. The obsession of sports has affected and created many new lifestyles to Americans. George Felton asks himself, "Why do I love wrestling (Felton 332)?" He loves wrestling because there are a few qualities that drew him to profe...

What is the most important priority for students today? Many of them believe that sports and other clubs come before their academics. Sports and clubs are both equally important but a student's main priority should be academics at all times. Academics are the most important thing in every person'...

I have participated in 3 different sports in my last six years of school. When I entered the 9th grade, things began to change. They weren't the same "go out and have fun" sports; they became "go out and win." This was new to me, but I feel that it has taught me many valuabl...

Sports Programs While searching for a better education than my last school, I happened to come along the academically based school ASMS. However, I was perturbed to discover that the athletic program at ASMS was not up to the standards that I found to be acceptable, in fact there was not a true ...

Sports Heroes In the world of sports, heroes are made each day. Some stay around for only a little while and some last forever. Lance Armstrong and Michael Jordan are two such heroes that will remain in the hearts of Americans forever. Lance Armstrong is a hero and role model for people of all age...

Student Athletes Deserve More than Scholarships (COMPENSATION OF STUDENT-ATHLETES) Student Athletes Deserve More than Scholarships. A Look into the Finances of Major College Sports Programs Student-athletes at major colleges and universities do more than attend classes, practices, and com...

After watching 60 Minutes this past Sunday I got to thinking about that age-old subject as to whether college athletes should be paid funds in addition to just their sports scholarship? The program brought out the facts of how the NCAA ...

High School Athletics: Good or Bad Imfluence? " In America we have laws, laws against killing, laws against stealing, and its excepted that as a member of American society you will live by these laws. In West Canaan, Texas, there is another society, which has its own set of laws. Football...

Fundraising. By dictionary definition fundraising is the organized activity of soliciting money or pledges for different organizations. (Alliteration) Just ask any high school student what they feel fundraising is and their reply will most certainly contradict any dictionary definition. (Alliteratio...

Express how your high school athletics have prepared you for college and the impact they have had on your life. I believe that participating in high school sports has greatly helped in preparing me for college. If I had not played sports throughout my life I would not be the person that I am to...

As today's society focuses more and more on sports, the educational world is evolving to keep up with the pace. As a result, today's student athletes have even more opportunities and options available to them than they did just a decade ago. In addition to more scholarships in both high school an...

There are no A's in WIN Everywhere you look, you can see something involving sports. Whether it is a big commercial deal with a superstar athlete or a huge contract signing that is all over the news. A large portion of our society revolves around sports and often has a hard time keeping the...

Should High School Athletes be Drug Tested? Many schools feel that the students that play sports are the leaders in their schools and should have to take a drug test to be eligible to play sports. The schools do not want drug users on high school sports teams because in many cases, students on t...

When Title IX was passed in 1972, fewer than 300,000 girls participated in high school sports. Today the number has increased 847% to an astounding 2.7 million girls ("Update: Title IX" n.p.). While many people would agree that Title IX has played a major role in women's participation...

There has been many people in life that has help me get where I am today. Whether it was when my brother talked me into playing three sports in high school. My teacher always sticking by me in school so I can graduate. And my parents by being strict and not letting me get into any trouble. All o...

SCHOOL LEVIES Most of you may think that school levies are a good thing. Pay a little more in taxes to help out the local school. It sounds like a great thing but there is a slight misconception about the school levies that most people don't bother to think about. Every so often, a new le...

COLLEGE ATHLETES SHOULD BE PAID The purpose of this paper will be to show you why college athletes should be paid. Participation in college sports should be considered a profession and athletes compensated for their work. Paying college athletes is not about being fair, but it is a start. Th...

As of right now where im going to be in five years is something that I can not see. I can tell you what i'd like to be doing, but that might not be exactly what is going to happen. I would really like to be able to play in some sort of professional football, but to most athletes that's...

John Leane, one-time Mesa County commissioner and now owner of Colorado West Custom Sports, provides officials for most sports in School District 51 and contracts with other school districts for officials. He has umpired baseball and softball games at various levels for many years. He says there has...

Its mid summer, a steamy 80-100 degrees farenheit, 15-35 mile per hour winds blow across the flatlands and mountains of one of the worlds most beautiful countries, France. 189 men, riding $5000 bicycles embark on a journey which will cover the flat lands of the north, and the treacherous mountain pa...

In the United States, sports teams and athletes are revered as some of the most influential and idolized people in the country. Some fifty years ago, the biggest celebrities around were Albert Einstein, Clark Gable, and Frank Lloyd Wright. These aforementioned people were all from backgrounds outsid...

A common misconception is that dance teams are a club and not a sport. A club is defined as a group of people organized for a common purpose whereas a sport is defined as an active pastime or recreation. The definition of a sport is a much better definition for dance teams everywhere. Some peo...