Sport and aggressive behavior, Do sports create aggressive behavior, or simply attract
            
 people who are already aggressive? Aggression and sport have gone together as long as
            
 sports have been around, be it the players themselves, to the parents, coaches, or
            
 spectators, they just seem to be an inseparable part of each other. The term violence is
            
 defined as physical assault based on total disregard for the well being of self and others, or
            
 the intent to injure another person ( 2. Coakley). Intimidation usually does not cause
            
 physical harm, but often is designed to produce psychological consequences, enabling one
            
 person to physically over power or dominate another. These statements as defined by the
            
 author, Jay J. Coakley, is what people today have made a must part on sport. Pleasure and
            
 participation sports absolutely cannot be grouped with power and performance sports
            
 when in relation to aggression.Pleasure sports are simply played for pleasure. Score is
            
 usually not kept. The athletes participating are usually on occasion doing it for fun and
            
 exercise. A majority of athletes who have been playing sports since they were little, have
            
 probably been pounded into their heads that to be successful in sport, you need to be
            
 aggressive, and at some times, unnecessary. Also that to get what you want, you have to
            
 go at it with all force. Not that this is wrong but, this attitude in today's society has been a
            
 major problem factor to the athletes when they get older, to get into trouble with the law.
            
 Those long-term effects of so called discipline, patterns develops these destructive
            
 behaviors. (9. Montague) Although some people are still in belief that aggressive
            
 behaviors in all forms, are grounded into instincts, but they also relate these actions to
            
 sports. Their parents played, who were known for their aggressive behavior, so the child
            
 feels that they have to live up to that expectation.( 6. Storr) A...