Category: Athletes

We are living in a world today where being a doctor is no longer one of the most appreciated fields in the world. Today athletes, basketball players, football players and baseball players are given more appreciation than doctors. As a matter of fact, they even earn more than doctors. If you want to make a…

Abstract Transgender athletes encounter discrimination in the world of sports. Beginning from summer of the 1936 Olympics, was also known as the Nazi Olympics, in Berlin (Budanovic, Nikola 2019). To our upcoming 2020 Tokyo Olympics. Even in High school sports, teenagers are followed by discrimination when parents or students find out about being transgender. There…

Jackie Robinson was the first ever African american to play in major league baseball.(history on the net) His dedication and love of the game inspired him to prove everyone wrong. The name calling,thrown items, and potential fights didnt stop Jackie from conquering what he wanted. To this day, the African american race dominates in sports…

The Essence of Competitive Sports Although sports are generally known as being the same, they can be distinguished into two distinct categories, competitive and non-competitive. Of course, every sport has some sort of competitiveness depending on the individual and the specific sport. Competitive sports are sports that require the maximum amount of profession an individual…

Introduction During a body workout, the body is under stress and to top it all, athletes experience chronic pain. With an aim to achieve top prize, they end up paying the full cost of torn muscles, arthritis, or strained ligaments. Others seek to find quick supplements to ease pain but end up getting banned. Various…

Many parents wonder if joining a highly competitive sports team is the right decision for their youth athletes. All over the news we see newscast after newscast of increasing childhood obesity and health related diseases such as diabetes. Given this reality, kids need to be educated on the need to be more physically active, and…

Sports is primarily a competitive activity where winning is the be all and end all. Perhaps that is why, in this highly competitive sports environment, we quite often hear about unethical behaviour which includes cheating, bending the rules, doping, abuse of food additives, physical and verbal violence, harassment, sexual abuse and trafficking of young sportspersons,…

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention website says regular physical activity in adolescence improves strength and endurance, helps build healthy bones and muscles, helps control weight, cuts anxiety and stress, boosts self-esteem and may improve blood pressure and cholesterol levels. Researchers found that teens involved in sports had higher grade-point averages, and were…

We are living in a world today where being a doctor is no longer one of the most appreciated fields in the world. Today athletes, basketball players, football players and baseball players are given more appreciation than doctors. As a matter of fact, they even earn more than doctors. If you want to make a…

Abstract Transgender athletes encounter discrimination in the world of sports. Beginning from summer of the 1936 Olympics, was also known as the Nazi Olympics, in Berlin (Budanovic, Nikola 2019). To our upcoming 2020 Tokyo Olympics. Even in High school sports, teenagers are followed by discrimination when parents or students find out about being transgender. There…