Essays on Sport Page 3

There are many sport cars around the $30,000 price tag to choose from but the two most popular ones to purchase from would have to be the Nissan 370z and the Ford Mustang GT. In order to find which car would be best suited for someone’s specific needs, a comparison will have to be done…

Are used by all kinds of people not just football players. In most sports there are athletes that take steroids to increase there performance. Athletes have bin taking synthetic steroids since the turn of the century to increase there performance, have bigger muscles mace and also make them self more aggressive. Medical and scientific liticher…

Since the beginning of sports, athletes have found ways to enhance their performance to gain a competitive advantage over their competitors. Records indicated that as early as 77l BC athletes have been attempting to use substances to enhance their performance. The Greek Olympians ingested various substances such as dried figs, mushrooms, sheep testicles and strychnine…

Professional baseball is experiencing turbulence, as the National Basketball Association and the National Football League thrive, the once-beloved American pastime struggles. This decline began in 1976 when the court ruled in favor of pitchers Andy Messersmith and Dave McNally in their fight for free agency (Burns and Ward, Art. 10). Free agency allows players to…

An American political journalist, author and professor, Norman Cousins in his essay Who killed Benny Paret expresses his point of view as to the death of a prize-fighter on the ring and the society’s complicity with this death, caused by the unjustified popularity of boxing. In the beginning of his essay Cousins introduces a prizefighter…

A wide range of sports and games are played in India. Undoubtedly, Indian sports have made a remarkable contribution at the international level, most importantly cricket, which has left such an impact on the minds of people that they worship it with full devotion, as if it is the fifth religion. Despite the facts and…

I have created a presentation that critically examines sports as a spectacle. The main focus of my research is on the impact of Michael Jordan’s elite NBA career and how it contributed to increased media speculation. By studying theorists like Debore, Abercrombie & Longhurst, and Tomlinson, I can illustrate how spectacle is perceived in our…

The modern Olympics is an international event where both men and women participate in a certain sport to represent the country they originated from. To facilitate the modern Olympics as we know it today, the Olympic movement, which dated from 1892 to 2002, was shaped by many things. A few examples are nationalism, gender, economics,…

In ancient Greece a person’s moral standard, their value Of ethics was the most important thing about that person. Many philosophers such as Socrates, Plato and Aristotle developed many works on what they thought moral standards should represent for everyone. The idea of morality, or virtue ethics was held very dear to the Greeks and…

According to freedictionary.com, a sport is defined as a physical activity that is governed by a set of rules or customs and is often engaged in competitively (Sport). There is ongoing debate regarding whether NASCAR qualifies as a sport. While some avid fans believe it meets the criteria, others argue that it does not. Those…