Sports exist at the core a societal foundation. Sports allow for a wide range of ways to get involved from involvement to spectatorship. The youth spend their days playing and fascinating over sports, similar to that of an adult, elderly, ect. Neither the appreciation nor the excitement of sports and athletic events differ by age. Some would say sport play such a big role in society because of their ability to incorporate life lessons into a fun activity, while other think the fascination of sports exist as the problem. Sports consume so much of youth and adults time alike, for the benefit of aggressive entertainment. The opinionate Tharpe, Barash, and Araton all approach the idea of spectatorship in a different lens: from believing sports allow for healthy interaction to …show more content…
The articles written by Tharpe ,Barash, and Araton analyze the effect of spectatorship and sports in able to determine whether benefits of sports outweigh the negative.
Although sports exist as the core, the building block, the foundation of the entertainment world; society places more importance in sports than the actual value of sports. David Barash takes the firm position against sport and their spectators in his 21st century article Roar of the Crowd. He emphasizes the absurdity and foolishness of spectators by juxtaposing the important problems in sports to that of the world: “Baseball has survived world wars, cold wars, hot dogs…only to succumb to a labor dispute”(Barash). The problems and the manor in which spectators conducts themselves cannot compare to anything civilized in Barash eye’s; therefore, he compares the conduct of