Jay Weiner ’s essay “How to Take Back Sports” used an idea to deprofessoinalize college and high school sports, which focused on three topics. I disagree with Jay Weiner’s idea to deprofessionalize sports that included; taking away scholarships, local news coverage, and athletes are introduced to a privilege at a young age. If you didn’t offer a scholarship to play a sport, you wouldn’t have that sport anymore.
Brad Wolverton’s “The Education of Dasmine Cathey” peers into the life of student-athlete Dasmine Cathey and the academic struggles imposed on him through his environment. Wolverton’s evaluative argument, or an argument that scrutinizes every aspect of a chosen subject, utilizes a variety of rhetorical strategies and techniques such pathetic appeals through the inclusion of photographs and the use of imagery in the various scenes of Dasmine’s life in the article. To understand Wolverton’s argument, it is important to review his credentials—as a former senior writer for The Chronicle of Higher Education, where this article was first published, Wolverton has written dozens of articles critiquing the college athletic system since 2005. Due to
Sports are capable of generating tremendous changes in the nation, at least according to Sally Jenkins' The Real All Americans. The book is littered with incidences in which sporting activities played a pivotal role in changing the events in the communities. The following is an in-depth analysis of some of the events in which sport contributed to the creation of change in the various contexts. The first instance in which the book reflects the importance of sports in the society is with regards to the contribution of Football in recognition of the Indians in the American culture.
Graff likens his expertise in the sports community with the school environment. Graff has observed that the community that exists in the sports world is full of competition which cultivates various kinds of motivated intellectual discussions, capturing the attention of those who are part of the culture. On the other hand, he notices that the school’s culture does not seem to develop the kind of intellectual discussion of making arguments but rather encourages “a show of information or vast reading, by grade-grubbing, or other forms of one-upmanship.” (249) Rather, the key to foster an environment filled with relevant intellectual discussions and improve one’s skill in forming arguments is, as Graff points out, by making the students’ “nonacademic interests an object of academic study”. (250) By doing so, it will induce constructive arguments to be the source of competition rather than something superficial such as
In chapter 7 of the 2008 novel Game On: The All-American Race to Make Champions of our Children Tom Farrey reveals the true beneficiaries of the athletic scholarship. Through examining the lifestyles of the Aguirre's and the Reilly’s of the Assabet Valley Girls Hockey Team, by reporting the wealthy correlation in the socio economic backgrounds of college athletes, and by recounting the historical origin of the athletic scholarship, Farrey correlates and analyzes all of his evidence in order to debunk a commonly accepted myth. He stresses to the audience that youth sports are declining and the competition over athletic scholarships is a significant factor to that problem. Ultimately, he found that mostly wealthy people benefit from athletic
She states that American culture has become too wrapped up in college sports, so much that it has affected America’s academics. Pollitt writes, “ In no other country’s university system, after all, does does sports play anything like the central role it does in American academic life” ( Pollitt 2). Though Deford also uses this logic stating, “ Overlook. Blind eye. Forgive them of their trespasses… keep them eligible” (Deford 1).
According to " The Case Against High-School Sports" (2013), sports could create some study, health, and time management problems for schools and students. In this post, Amanda Ripley initially shows the benefits when involving in the high-school sports: exercise, sportsmanship lessons, some positive personalities, more fun and staying away from vices. She also writes some tales to inform readers that in the US, students are interested and enjoy in sports more than other peers in other countries. However, she claims that the high-school sports have negative effects on schools and students. Next, she gave some schools ' examples to show the problems when schools and students spent too much time and money in high-school sports.
As a result, Heather Boyle decided to bring an awareness to a circumstance that is occurring in school sports through her article “As Sports Fees Rise, A Young Athlete Learns That If You Can 't Pay, You Can 't Play”. In her narrative, Boyle expresses the difficulties she confronted growing up in poverty and meeting the financial burden felt trying to participate in school athletic. Furthermore, she conveys some of the effect pay to play is having is having as a whole now and possible future implications. Boyle, makings further use of her writing opportunity, to addresses the possible changes to policy practices that may perhaps give under privileged children the occasion to participate in athletics. Finally, Boyle concludes the article with the benefit athletics has left her with and her feeling of sadness
Athlete-Students Becoming great at anything takes hard work, sacrifice, and dedication; it takes more than just raw talent to become the best at something. But becoming the best attracts the attention of skeptics, and it raises the question: is the ability of the athlete pure talent, hard work, and dedication, or is there the use of performance-enhancing drugs? People are always looking for an edge over their opponent, and this might lead to the use of supplements that are borderline illegal, but can possibly squeak by and not be traceable. This can cause problems that are discussed in the article “Will Genetics Destroy Sports?” Crossing over to high school sports, the article “The Case Against High School Sports” talks about how high school
This notion is supported by Dr. Daniel Gould, who believes that “Children who participate in sports have increased educational aspirations, closer ties to school and increased occupational aspirations in youth” (1). People against the funding of high school sports think that parents and society are placing more emphasis than ever before and, “[P]ressures athletic personnel to deviate on winning from the athlete- centered educational and personal development mission” (Gould 1). However, athletes strive to do better in class. Michael Lorenc, a high school basketball coach believes that “those who seem to have an overwhelming schedule where they’re playing maybe multiple sports, and high academic schedules, they tend to do better than those who don’t do anything extracurricularly” (Gray). Balancing sports and school makes athletes put more effort into keeping up grades while playing the sport they love.
Sports have been a part of America for a long time. Long enough that they are big part of American’s culture. When the word “sports” is mentioned to any American, the first thing that comes to mind are sports at a professional level, mean while forgetting the National Collegiate Athletic Association(NCAA) athletes. Surprisingly, America has the unique value of being able to play sports on a high level while going to college. No other country has that privilege.
These triumphs might be broadcasted in the morning, posted on the school’s webpage, or showcased throughout the school in the form of a trophy or plaque. The primary sports, such as football, receive incessant announcements over the intercom of when games are scheduled, how they performed, and who excelled in the event. The school administration further exhibits favoritism to the preeminent sports by attending most, if not all, home games and countless away games. Throughout my four years of participating on both the swim and tennis teams, Berwick High’s past and present administration attended, at most, five out of at least one hundred matches and meets. This past swim season, I️ broke the school record in the 100-meter breaststroke; for this triumph, I️ received no recognition or even a simple “congratulations” from the school.
College Sports Are Good When it comes to the topic of college sports, most of us will readily agree that college student athletes earn the college millions of dollars every year. Where this agreement usually ends, however, is on the question of whether sports should be included in an institution college education. Where as some are convinced that students should only go to college to get an education, others maintain that students should be permitted to play sports and go to college and get an education. Although it’s possible that college sports may be a distraction to students education, college sports should be offered to universities around the world.
They explained that where they went to school there weren’t a lot of sports and most people didn 't play any. I couldn 't believe it that some people didn 't play sports at all. At Northgate, you’re looked at differently if students didn 't play a sport. I thought about this, when did sports become the main culture at schools? Why do we as a culture treat athletics better than academics?
