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    Since the begging of professional sports there has been teams that use the tribe names of Native Americans, and most people were fine with it. But recently in the past few years this has become a more controversial topic. In 2016 NFL commissioner Roger Goodell said that he is not going to pressure the Washington Redskins to change their teams name because, they were originally named the redskins to honor the Native American people and their tribes. President Obama agreed that the NFL was trying

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    mentioned that almost all states have passed a legislation on youth sports-related concussions, which will be helpful across the United States of

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    Aaron Hernandez was a star tight end for the New England Patriots football team that fell into criminal behavior instead of excelling in his career that would have set him for life. Professional athletes work their entire lives to reach their goals, so for someone to throw that honor away is quite appalling to sports fans and the public who heard the news about Hernandez. Growing up, he began to use drugs after his father died. He had a record dating back to 2007, when he punched a waiter in a restaurant

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    Why would people want to boycott a sport that has been deeply rooted into American Society since 1869? With all of the injuries, substance abuse and assault charges that plague the world of sports, one may find themselves asking the question, Is it wrong to watch and support the game of Football? Since the creation of the sport back in 1869, brain damage has presented a difficult obstacle for players of collegiate and professional levels. Erich Buckman, a lifelong Football fan who writes for Los

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    times by actively seeking to accept bets from professional gamblers. Professional sports gamblers have a hard time finding someone who will accept their wagers for obvious reasons. However, Martin was willing to lose money in the short term taking their bets because it enabled him to make more money in the long term after he developed the most accurate betting line. Here’s how it worked. On every football Sunday, Martin gathered a group of professional gamblers and offered them his initial point

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    One thing about sports that everyone agrees on is that they are fun to watch. Another thing that most agree on is that cheaters get what they deserve. However, the amount of cheating has increased significantly in professional sports over recent years, thus making them not so fun to watch by some. Cheating occurs through secret deals, bad trades, and use of drugs to gain a field advantage, therefore sports that most people have grown to love have become less entertaining, and more violent to the

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    The Who, Where, When, Why, and What of Sports Imagery Allison Sciucco Mount Saint Mary College Introduction According to Markser there is a common idea that only emotionally strong athletes can compete at the professional level and therefore, mental disorders do not occur in professional athletes (Markser, 2011). However, it can be concluded that there are just as many cases of mental disorders in professional athletes as there are in the general public (Markser, 2011). Anxiety disorders are common

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    Salary caps are a very important tool used in professional sports. All 4 major professional sports leagues in the United States have a salary cap installed into their collective bargaining agreement between the league and its players. Those four major sports are, the NFL, the NBA, the MLB and the NHL. A salary cap is defined as s an agreement or rule that places a limit on the amount of money that a team can spend on players' salaries. It can be as a per-player limit or a total limit for the team's

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    I believe professional sports are too much of a risk to athletes because they can seriously injurie themselves, And health is a really big problem in any National league usally you can get injuried easyer. In Source one it says " Some football players can suffer memory loss and several different brain disorders". "CTE occurs when repeated head traumas causes brain cells to form an unusual proteins that hinder blood flow hin the brain"." During practices and games, they endured 271 concussions"

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    I have always been fascinated by sports especially basketball and football, so I am one of those people that almost know so much that it is weird. Now, the NBA is a league dominated by men in every aspect. I started to watch the NBA around the age of 12, and through all my years of watching the game I became accustomed to only seeing men in the NBA. It has been like this until, Becky Hammon was brought upon the Spurs’ coaching staff on Aug 5, 2014; Becky will be the first female to be full-time

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