Essays on Athletes

Inflexible character, serious, even distant, away from the spotlight, without public life, correct, educated, committed, calm and focused on daily work avoiding banal distractions. Jack Brabham was the opposite of what we now understand as a sports media star. But he was one of the...

Athletes all around the world are receiving ridiculously large salaries for playing on teams. These salaries are not deserved, for these athletes are not risking much for these positions. Occupations with similar payouts are dependent upon degrees and the mere fact that others’ lives are...

Personality is thought to impact sport performance. There are several theories which help us believe that personalities have an effect on how sport performers handle sport. It is how we see if sports impact us is by doing different tests to see what categories we...

Introduction A democratic government is a government of the people, or the people and by the people. In order for this to happen, both parties need to work together to it to be effective. This however requires communication. This is where media comes into play....

There are a variety of things that can distract your attentional focus. These come under two broad headings, internal distractors and external distractors. Internal distractors are split into three sections, thoughts, feelings and psychophysiological sensations. Thoughts are remembering previous mistakes you made in sports events....

Cheerleading is in fact a sport, and claimed to be the hardest womens sport out there as they face many challenges. It pushes you to the limits and trains you everyday. Many people out there say that cheerleading is not a sport, well the definition...

When most people think of cheerleading, they think of bratty girls in cute outfits and pom poms that attempt to pump up the crowds at school sport events. Many people let movies depict their beliefs about cheerleader, but truth is popular cheer movies like “Bring...

Lewis Harrison is a fitness athlete and model. He is 27 years old and comes from a small town known as Kendall, England. He is a twin brother of Owen Harrison who is also a fitness model with him. They are famous and known as...

Doping has been the most controversial topic during sports; doping has created and destroyed many athletes careers. Notorious athletes such as Lance Armstrong, Jose Canseco, Alex Rodriguez, Barry Bonds and many more. These athletes used Performance Enhancing Drugs (PEDs), to improve themselves as players and...

As the athletic director of Serra Catholic High School, I would not ban social media all together. Now, there are certainly downsides of student athletes using social media such as inappropriate content being displayed about other teams and inappropriate content being displayed about players on...

Recently, doping in sports has become a huge problem. Doping is being used in sports in order to cheat the system and gain an unfair advantage against other competitors. Various careers were ruined in multiple sports as well as trophies as significant as olympic medals...

This essay explores about the topic hypoxic training devices. The article discusses the meaning of hypoxic training and the devices that are involved in this type of training. It talks about its usage by the athletes to boost their performance. The information about the training...

Introduction The consumption of performance-enhancing drugs (PED), more commonly known as ‘doping’, continues to have a scandalous effect across all sporting communities. Doping is notorious for having severe health problems for the consumer, such as abnormal growth, heart disease, diabetes, thyroid problems, hypertension, blood cancers...

In this case study, we have young Billy Simmons who is an extremely talented tennis player. Growing up, the Simmons family played mixed doubles, various combinations of singles, or just hit for fun at the Forest Hills Country Club, which is predominantly white. The Simmons...

The 1960’s were a transformational period that helped influence the society of today. In the 1960’s Politics were highly frowned upon in sports, as of the twenty-tens, this opinion continues to be the same. Whether you ask a professional athlete or an avid sports watcher...

Tyrone Wallace is a professional basketball player who currently plays for NBA’s Los Angeles Clippers a Point/Shooting guard. Wallace played college football for California Golden Bears before being drafted by the Utah Jazz as the last pick of the 2016 NBA draft. Who Is Tyrone...

As the end of high school approaches, some student-athletes have the option to play a sport in the NCAA. One question they may ask themselves would be, “Is it worth it to play a sport in college?”, considering all the time put into the sport...

Teachers are barely Compensated. On the other hand artist and sport athletes are highly paid. What are the reasons on this? And What should be done about this? There are things in nature that come out completely unsound; for instance, how a smaller animal devours...

“Athletes can optimize their physical performance by understanding the interactions between systems and making intelligent choices”.This shows that athletes will have to choose by themselves on how they will increase their physical performance in any way possible, There are alot of Affects athletes / students...

Chris Lee, an American journalist, wrote the article “The Need for Weed” where he delves into the world of sports and focuses on the increased use of marijuana as a pain killer amongst today’s athletes. The author mentions, “marijuana has faced stigmatization as a gateway...

During the twentieth century, science made huge strides in the field of medicine. The consumption of drugs increased immensely during the same period, and nothing points to any modification in that trend in the twenty-first century. Quite the contrary, on top of the steady increase...

With technology readily advancing, athletes are racing to get their hands on anything that may give them an edge to take out the competition. Gene doping is a resultant of gene therapy. However, instead of injecting DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid) into a person’s body to restore...

Steroids has been one of the main performance enhancing drugs that everyone has heard of. However, there are many, many growth hormones and performance enhancing drugs that are being introduced every year to try and stay one step ahead of WADA (world anti doping association)....

Many ex-athletes have admitted to Cannabis use which is a drug in violation of sports anti-doping policies. Darren Heitner of Forbes wrote an article on the use of Cannabis in professional sports and found that it has great benefits for pain and inflammation. In fact...

Sports are an amazing thing in this world, it is one of the greatest pastimes in the whole world. People admire the hard work the players put in to be as successful as they are, people find it amusing to watch these extraordinary people go...

The sports industry is an incredibly harsh, fast paced and competitive industry that places immense pressure on all who are involved in it. An undesirable effect of this is that countless athletes are left reaching for results that they simply at said point cannot achieve;...

Do you think that cheating on a test in school is okay to do, as long as everyone else is doing it? That is how most athletes argue their case for why they dope. Doping in sports is basically using illegal drugs or illegal amounts...