Essays on Referee

Basketball is one of the most popular sport games. To date, this game has more than 200 million registered players around the world as well as hundreds of millions of fans. Basketball has been around for more than a century, and during that time, the game has acquired the status that allows it to be an important part of the world sport. In addition, there are various levels of this sport game: i.e. amateur, professional, and educational. The rules of this game are extremely simple, allowing everyone to understand them in a short time. But at the same time, ...

Some can touch the ball with their hands while some cannot. Some can get yellow cards while others can get red. Some always run and are never involved; others cannot cross the line and only wave their flags. What are these words about? Obviously, they are about a wonderful game of soccer. It is truly the Earth's national game. It gathers many millions before their televisions or computers and gets the stadiums full to the rim. It leaves calm very few and can make the most modest and polite people rage and burst the emotions in their support for ...

Summary of the main themes of the field study

Violence in sports-sports is often marred by violence and other forms of hooliganism. Sports fans in most cases take their passion for the game to extreme heights where they turn a blind eye to the sensibility and decorum. The numerous fights are a clear demonstration of violence in sports. Qualitative research offers firsthand information regarding field incidences (Corbin & Strauss, 2014). Intolerance in the game-while sports acts as a uniting factor in the society. It is often full of intolerance. Fans normally find it too hard to withstand contentious decisions that go against them. As a result, the referees are ...

Volleyball Officiating

Volleyball Officiating Officiating is a central aspect of any sporting activity. It is the avenue through which the winner of any sporting event is decided. In volleyball, referees play a significant role in ensuring that the players observe the rules of the game and ensure that the competing teams do so fairly.

As a referee selected to officiate a game where the teams are made up of young people, I should not only act as an official but also as a special trainer. This is because I will help the learners know more about volleyball. The officiating in this ...

Development and Challenges of Football after 1990 World Cup

1.0 Introduction Football has over the years faced challenges despite its growth in popularity. Szymanski (2002) argues that football has significantly improved the economic standards of the countries who host the world cup and also those with the major leagues. Lee & Taylor (2005) argue that tourism has been on the rise due to football, and this has come to be with the 2202 World Cup hosted by South Korea and Japan. However, the report has dwelt much on the recent history of football that took center stage after the 1990 world cup finals. Some of the main topics that ...

Differences and Similarities of Basketball in Different Countries

This paper deals with the topic of differences and similarities of sport in different countries. The kind of sport, which is chosen for this paper, is basketball. Our main goal is to dwell upon differences and similarities of this kind of sport with regard to cultural, violence, and gender issues. In order to achieve this goal successfully, relevant sources of information were carefully analyzed. There is very interesting fact that some of the American basketball fans do not know about other basketball leagues except NBA. The basketball is considered to be one of the most popular sports nowadays. Actually, ...

Sport officiating is the supervision of sporting activities in accordance with laid down rules. It is the mandate of umpires, referees and judges to officiate the game by observing, interpreting events and making decisions aimed at ensuring a smooth sporting experience for both the players and the spectators (Smid, 2015). Sports are a unifying factor and draw people from various sections of the community. Therefore, officiating involves often handling diverse groups under different types of settings. The various groups include the aged, disabled, young, indigenous groups, ethnically diverse groups, religious groups and individuals from various socio-economic statuses. Handling diverse ...

Abstract

Behavior refers to conduct of an organism or system in relation to its environment. This also encompasses other organisms and systems around and also the physical environment. Therefore, we can say that behavior is the response or reaction of the organism or system to various inputs or stimuli whether external or internal, subconscious or conscious, covert or overt, involuntary or voluntary. Behavior is primarily controlled by the nervous system and endocrine system in human beings and people have got different types of behaviors especially when it comes to relating to one another. In this paper, I am trying to ...