Sports Essays

There is an ongoing debate in the baseball world regarding the use of wood bats versus metal bats. Both sides present valid arguments, including Joe Torre, coach of the New York Yankees, who openly supports a return to wood bats. This sentiment is shared by other coaches in the major leagues. Both Tony Larussa of […]

The Greatest Players of All Time* The prominence of sports in American culture has expanded, with baseball being recognized as America’s favorite pastime. However, concerns have arisen lately regarding the credibility of baseball due to certain players resorting to performance-enhancing drugs like anabolic steroids. Bud Selig, Major League Baseball’s commissioner, acknowledges this issue and emphasizes […]

Baseball is a very competitive sport as is mainly enjoyed by men; however we also have a sport called softball which is played mainly by females. The sport of baseball and softball are almost identical in a lot of ways. This essay will compare and contrast baseball vs. softball by discussing the similarities and the […]

Baseball is America’s pastime. The poem “Casey at the Bat” by Ernest Lawrence Thayer tells the story of a baseball game. The home team is losing the game. They are hoping for their star player, Casey to get up to bat and win the game. In this poem Thayer uses imagery to build suspense. First, […]

In his article titled “cheating and CHEATING,” Joe Posnanski argues that despite its constant presence of cheating, racism, alcoholism, and narrow-mindedness, baseball always maintains a perpetual beauty and innocence. He asserts that regardless of the time periods when amphetamines and steroids were widespread in the sport, there is no fundamental distinction between injecting steroids and […]

With all of the technological developments that emerged in the recent times, several of these have already found their way onto the courts and fields of professional athletics. Instant replay is one of the major technological innovations in the recent years that are now regularly used in sports. The technology identified as instant replay permits […]

Simon Birch was an undersized boy who was determined to find out what was god’s purpose for him in life, but deep down Simon knew he was going to be a hero. Due to the fact that Simon had a disability the stunted his growth, he faced multiple problems, but he didn’t let that stop […]

Softball, which can be traced back to the Aztec Indians in the sass’s, has been influenced by sports from various cultures throughout history. The impact of sports on the world has been significant and personally, I have been competing in sports for a long time. Sports teach valuable life lessons such as integrity, hard work, […]

The equipment utilized in a game has a significant impact on the way the game is conducted. Take, for instance, playing soccer with an American football or using vintage wooden racquets from years ago for tennis. By modifying the equipment, the essence of the game is entirely changed. In my exploration of baseball, I chose […]

Basketball Dunking-Above 6 Footers vs Below 6 Footers There have been many basketball players above and below six foot, professional and non-professional who have dunked a basketball. But it is easier for a player above six foot to dunk. A dunk occurs when a player jumps in the air and manually throws the ball downward, […]

Sport psychology as the names suggests is linked to sport. More specifically it involves preparing the mind of an sportsman/sportswoman so he/she can face the day fully prepared. Sport psychology is an is taken very seriously by psychologists and likewise athletics. Many well known starts such as David Beckham, Tiger woods, etc appreciate that successful […]

In my Physical Education School Base Assignment (SBA) Draft 1. There is Information on the history of netball internationally , who, when and where It was invented . What netball was evolved from, who brought it to Jamaica and in what year It came to Jamaica where was first played and where the first netball […]

Hoosiers is a film about second chances. Redemption is given to a short tempered coach, who was issued a lifetime suspension by the NCAA for physically assaulting a player, and a former star player- turned town drunk. These two defeat their odds by taking a small town high school basketball team from being just 15 […]

The Marketing Plan The National Basketball Association (NBA) is one of the four major professional sports leagues in the United States, with 30 teams representing 28 US markets and one in Canada. Additionally, the NBA also oversees properties such as the Women’s National Basketball Association (WNBA, comprised of 14 teams); NBA Development League (NBADL, comprised […]

“Ex-Basketball Player,” by John Updike is the poem that struck me this week. It is about a man who once had great potential but never followed through with it. Flick Webb is the focus of this poem; he was a basketball star in high school quite some time ago, but nowadays he merely pumps gas […]

In the world of sports today there is a constant theme in every sport aggression and violence. Aggression can be shown in a lot of different ways in sports. In baseball aggression can be throwing a pitch inside to a player or sliding into second base and taking the second baseman or short stop out. […]

Chris Here, a basketball player for both the Denver Nuggets and Boston Celtics, hails from Fall River, Massachusetts, a city on the southern coast near Providence Rhode Island. As a young boy, he lived in poverty and was well-known for having basketball talent. This led him to attend Drudge High School where he scored an […]

What does the word contentment really mean? Is it the satisfaction with oneself or an environment? Is it the happiness you feel once you have reached a certain stage in your life? We all have a threshold at which we begin to experience a level contentment. The environment where I have achieved contentment has different […]

Michael Cordon’s competitive nature and strong leadership qualities like courage and loyalty enabled him to make everyone on the rout a better player and a better person, and also helped him win 6 NAB championships. Michael Jeffrey Jordan was born in Brooklyn New York on February 17th 1963. Michael is the fourth of five children […]

I started to watch basketball when I was a child. It’s a passion for me. Can only one person change another person’s life? Maybe or not, but my life was changed by a basketballer, LeBron James. He is like Michael Jordan for many people who love him. He is one of the best basketball players […]

Trisha was everyone’s typical dream girl. She was not only blessed with a lovely face, she was gifted with brains to boot. So it was not surprising that she was on the honor roll. Her boyfriend George, on the other hand, was the pride of the school’s basketball league. He was a star player not […]

Since their establishment, the Chicago Bulls have shown exceptional performance in the Eastern Conference Central division of the NBA, making them a successful basketball team hailing from Illinois in the USA. The Chicago Bulls Basketball team has established themselves as one of the most accomplished and triumphant teams in the NBA since their founding in […]