Essays on Sports

When using words “gender” and “sex”, people usually use them interchangeably. However, these two words can be deceptive. Pryzgoda & Chrisler (2000) explain that many researchers agree that there is a differences between “sex” and “gender”. “Sex” is referring more the biological aspects of the...

There is a great misrepresentation of the tremendous impact on collegiate level sports and their athletes have on the overall success of a university. This is especially true in SUNY University settings, in which considerable funding is poured into collegiate level athletic programs, to produce...

In 1995, the UCLA Bruins men’s basketball team won the national championship. The team was led by Toby Bailey, who had graduated from Loyola High School a mere ten months prior, and by Ed O’Bannon, who was named Most Outstanding Player in the Final Four....

On common on average only 1/3 of college athletes are given a scholarship and a majority are half as much as a full scholarships as stated by the National Collegiate Athletic Association. From that 1/3 about two percent make it to the expert league. Picture...

In the past five to ten years, there has been a controversial question going around: should students who play a sport get paid as a reward of being a College Athlete? The answer is no. Student athletes should not get paid because they are already...

Nowadays in the world of sports a major discussion is wether college athletes should be getting paid for their respective sports or not. A lot of people argue that they are getting a full ride to prestigious 4-year universities and that they have a big...

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...

Muhammad Ali was an African American who was a former professional heavy weight boxer and one of the greatest athletes of the 20th century. His boxing career started in the 1960’s and it ended in 1981. He was the first boxer to win the heavyweight...

In this essay I want  to present a man whose life is full of struggle and hardships and how he overcame these hardships and became a successful person. The person who I’m talking about is none other than the greatest boxer, a fighter and a...

Sexual segregation inside sports has for some time been implemented in Western social orders (Sartore Baldwin 2010). While Coggan, Hammond, and Holm examine the avocations of holding an exacting sexual orientation parallel inside sports, as indicated by Tannsjo (2000), Semerjian and Cohen (2006) contend for...

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...

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...

Hazing is a problem affecting adolescents and young adults on many college campuses (Allan & Madden, 2008). Between 1838 and 1969, 35 deaths transpired on university campuses as a result of college hazing or alcohol abuse. Within 30 years, that number increased to over 210...

Introduction Hazing is something that happens frequently in college to initiate or create a trust between new members and the senior members of a team. Hazing is something that needs to be extinguished and can be prevented with the right leadership. Body According to MacIntosh,...

Introduction Despite being illegal in many states due to the history of hospitalizations and death, hazing continues to be a common form of initiation throughout fraternities, sports teams and other clubs and groups (MacLachlan, 2007). Hazing has existed in many forms for hundreds of years...

Introduction The use of performance-enhancing drugs by professional and amateur athletes has been recognized as a problem since at least the 1960s. These three drugs include anabolic steroids, stimulants and diuretics. There are a couple of issues related to the use of performance enhancing drugs....

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...

The game of lacrosse that we know today is far from what it was at its’ origins in early North American society. Some of the earliest forms of what we know as lacrosse were called baggataway or tewaarathon. According to Morrow (1989), there were approximately...

In the 19th century, Montreal had become the central hub for economic activity, where businesses settled their factories and their wealthy owners settled their families. Griffintown in particular became a magnet for Irish emigrants escaping troubles in their native country of Ireland. Whether they were...