American Sports Article Reviews Samples For Students

Sayreville War Memorial High School came into limelight last month when news regarding bullying and sexual harassment came on surface. According to the reports, a senior football players of the Sayreville team tortured freshman in the locker rooms. The victims reported that senior players targeted freshman in the locker room, pinned them on the floor and assaulted them via inappropriate manners which included touching their private parts and hit them while other senior players of the team held his arms and legs. (MARGOLIN) The news came as a shock to many, as charges were filed against 7 senior players of the ...

Analysis and Response to “Stepping Stories”

The writer of the narrative essay, Kimberly Parker, details the extraordinary academic successes of her students during the first two years of her high school teaching career, and she concludes by asserting that her students’ exemplary successes can be replicated. Although Parker’s essay may be considered primarily narrative in its style and structure, it has very strong argumentative qualities; furthermore, the essay converts to full argumentation toward its conclusion. The principal argument that Parker makes in regards to setting the academic bar higher, encouraging the students, and their subsequently succeeding is analogous to the famous line from the classic ...

Article Review on Football Management and Leadership

Analysis

In the article “A Review of Leadership in Sport: Implications for Football Management,” Crust and Lawrence discuss the roles of football managers, elaborate on research in leadership, elaborate on research in mental toughness, outline the coach-athlete relationship, and suggest further research to explain the traits and experience required for success in football management.
Football managers need to display both management and leadership personality traits and skills. The authors explain the definition of leadership in both early and contemporary research. The article is mainly concerned with the multidimensional approach to leadership. Research evidence supports the theory that required ...

Introduction

The article written by Auberbach for the USA Today gives a comprehensive description of the situation of domestic violence and sexual assault in American Football particularly within the elite players (Auberbach, 2015). The current problem that this sport faces, which includes university teams as a brand, coaches, and players, is the growing stigma that football players are violent and tend to beat and sexually assault women. Due to several cases of star players that were found guilty of these charges, increased the bad press of this sport. Furthermore, coaches are facing a potential job loss, and universities are being ...

Blood Breathe Alcohol

This paper talks about the increased level of alcohol consumption in the University amongst the students and other college fans, especially during the game days compared to other social days. A game day here refers to the day on a campus football events (Glassman, Wercb, Jobli, & Bain, 2007; Nelson &Wechsler, 2002; Prevention File, 2008). This article talked about the problems that the university officials are facing while dealing with the issue of alcoholism. It sufficiently addressed the preventive measures put in place, like the limitation of tailgating to three hours before the start of the game and the ban of ...

Mary Louise Pratt: “Arts of the Contact Zone”

Pratt continued the assertion of the baseball card experience, as an excellent way of learning, by using examples of real world texts that were common to the baseball cards, and what she quotes as “new visions of literacy” (486). This was a quote from comments made by Tony Sarmiento at this particular conference (the Pittsburgh conference on literature). In many ways, her article is based in the original thought of how Sam learnt to communicate, and become literate. She mentions the letter, written by Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala, with text as well as images. This ...

Nagel, M. and Daniel R. (2007). Washington "Redskins" – Disparaging Term or Valuable
Tradition? Legal and Economic Issues Concerning Harjo v.Pro-Football, Inc. Retrieved from http://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/25801/1/Redskins_draft_4.pdf
- This article discusses how Washington Redskins have had issues with their trademark, which was targeted towards marketing and improving the image of the football team. Furthermore, the concept of rebranding and financial impact on the organization is discussed. The major reason for not changing its name has been attributed to the good financial gain it has received over the years.
- The name Redskins has come under a lot of scrutiny because ...

Premiership Football Club buys storage solution to store, access and share critical information

Various sporting institutions have increasing needs for systems that can safely keep the players’ information and data. Arsenal Football Club is not left behind. The club needs a solution that can keep all the players’ information and analysis data protected. This is what compelled the club to install two of Buffalo’s TeraStation ES Network Attached Storage (NAS) devices. The decision was arrived at after a thorough investigation of all the storage solutions. The club also purchased eight MiniStation hard drives with hardware encryption. This was to be used by the football analysis team, the medical staff and the coaches.
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The story of LeBron James begins and ends with discussion about his legacy. He emerged as a 14 year-old boy in Ohio—the prodigal son destined to resurrect a city and end a championship drought. But when he struggled to produce, he was heavily criticized, and eventually left town for Miami where he promptly won two championships. James has returned to the city he left five years ago, hoping to bring the championship clout with him. Gary Washburn accurately displays this conflict in his Boston Globe article “LeBron James is giving us a lesson in leadership.”

Washburn quickly explains the conflict in ...

FOR GERMAN SOCCER, A LYRIC DEBATE: ARTICLE REVIEW

Introduction/Summary
In this article, the Germany football team kicked up a controversy after some of its members refused to sing the country’s national anthem, The Song of Germans. The public, including football officials and former players thought that the team ought to sing to the anthem, despite the manager insisting that the players did identify with the team and their heritage was important. This occurred at a time when Germany had began re-asserting its national identity since World War II, which has however not been reflected in sports, with national teams losing players with foreign roots to other nations. ...

Boggs, K. C. (1998). IE and NFL spell success for coaching legend. IIE Solutions, 30(1), 14.
- This article provides a discussion of how the former Dallas Cowboys coach Tom Landry applied concepts of industrial engineering such as quality control, computer analysis and industry psychology to develop a program, which improved the team’s performance and achieve multiple successes winning the Super bowl.
- Some of the concepts that were used by Landry include quality control, industrial psychology, and computer analysis. These three approaches are discussed in detail indicating how Landry employed them to making the team a success
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The story ‘agreeable’ by Jonathan Frazen is a good example of how literature has used modern day life to communicate. The story uses modern day setting to communicate to the people. The story takes a modern approach including in characterization, themes, and even the setting. The story ‘A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings’ was written in ancient times in 1955. The story uses different methods of characterization, themes, and setting. Unlike ‘Agreeable’, which was written in America, this story was written in Mexico in Spanish and later translated into English. These two short stories differ in terms of style characterization ...

Purpose of the Study

Talent acquisation is central to the organizational development and success of any sport that is played as a team. This paper seeks to discuss a study on acquisation of new talent in the National Football League.The study evaluated the success of National Football League (NFL) teams acquiring new talent through drafts. NFL teams acquire new through trades, free agency and drafts. To this end, the study developed four objectives. Firstly, to evaluate team draft success among NFL teams. Secondly, to evaluate which playing positions provided the worst and best value for NFL teams. Thirdly, to evaluate wether success of NFL players ...