The Greatest Game on Earth In 1987, EA Sports wanted to enter the football video game market. ... In 1989, EA Sports released John Madden football and console gaming was forever changed. ... John Madden Football has a cult following unmatched by any other game. I have been playing John Madden Football since I was 16 years old. ... With over 19 million units sold over 14 years, it is the standard for a football simulation. ...

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For years the debate between high school basketball and football has continued on, but now it ends. ... The pros of basketball outweigh the pros of football by far. ... But football also has a few pros to it. ... Many believe that football is more dangerous than basketball, but in the same year more than 186,000 children ages 5 to 14 were treated in hospital emergency rooms for football-related injuries. ... Another con of football is the crowd involvement in the game. ...

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This was only one reason why he accepted his daughter playing football. Jess is a normal teenager who loves to play football on her free time. ... This lead them to not trust her and made her quit playing football. ... He says " I miss fastball and I regret quitting" " I saw how good Jess is at football and I except her decision to go to school and play football". ... He wanted her to be a cultural woman and live a normal Indian life, but when he saw how good she was at football he started to realize she could be successful in football. ...

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Anyone who's watched a professional football match cannot help but notice it. ... They call it "diving" and it's become a plague in today's football. ... Football has incredibly changed in recent years. Footballers were athletes, they played with pride. ... Biographies of footballers from earlier years suggest that concealing pain and injury was seen as an important tactic in the game. ...

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Atmosphere in a Way You Will Never Forget The sun comes up, the sun goes down, to some this Friday is an ordinary day, but to me it is the night for football. ... Playing the vicious game of football the smell becomes part of me. ... This is what we, vicious football players, like to call game mode. ... The sound of the band playing our fight song, "Iron Man," will bring out a beast in each one of us on the Carlisle football team. ... From the dew on the grass, to the intensity every player brings out onto the field, no other individual that does not play will ever feel or have a love for a sp...

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Why I picked why girls should be allowed to play boys sports is because I played football. I didn't see anything about girls are not allowed to play. I loved playing football. I think its fine to allow girls to play boys sports because they can do the same thing boys can do. If you look at cheerlead...

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What Will I Do Over In life, people make mistakes. From time to time you are asked," if you had a chance to do some things over again what would you do?" So, the things I would do over are my junior year in high school, senior year, and my freshman year in college. These things are the most likely...

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Video games have moved past a trend or a fad of the late 1990's and early 2000's. There is clearly something going on with video games. Should video games be considered a sport? Google defines sport as "an activity involving physical exertion and skill in which an individual or team competes against...

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College Athletes and Cash Money, Do They Deserve Extra Reimbursement? The question of whether college athletes should be paid has led to a hotly contested debate. The critics who are in favor of paying athletes for their services point to the millions of dollars of revenue generated from footba...

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If you are over 30 years old, I think you will agree with me on this issue. As children we lived slower life styles, had simple toys, and loved the outdoors. Mom was home, dad went to work and we actually got to be children and enjoy ourselves. Society has changed that for children today. Now it...

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This is most apparent in the way women's teams are named, for example if a college football team was to be called the "Blue Hawks", the female side would have a much less powerful name like the "Blue Tits". ... The reasons for this is that the people in positions of authority in the newspapers are male and so the males are more interested in the male sports like football and rugby, instead of hockey, so they print stories or broadcast these sports. ...

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The first question that came to mind was, "would there be a limit to playing High School football?" Now is the time for me to refute my parents because football is on the line. I knew I needed strong points to convince them that I was still able to play football. ... Now, 3 years later, my mother is stressing that I should not play football for Goleman Senior High School. ... He consulted with neurosurgeons and doctors specializing in Sports Medicine and they told him that there is no way I could play football. ...

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The most meaningful and challenging experiences in my life have been through sports and the 4-H club. They have instilled the values of perseverance, confidence, and teamwork within me. I feel that my peers and others could learn valuable life lessons through participating in these organizations. Th...

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The most meaningful and challenging experiences in my life have been through sports and the 4-H club. They have instilled the values of perseverance, confidence, and teamwork within me. I feel that my peers and others could learn valuable life lessons through participating in these organizations. Th...

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Loving something is loving it from the very first time you experience it. This is true with "backyard sports"; sports like football, baseball, basketball, soccer, or any other of the activities that children play in the yard. Playing these sports as a child is fun. No one is considered "inferior"...

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SPORTS 2030 Hello and welcome back to the first ever amateur space football game featuring the Mercury Asteroids and the Orbitron Stars. ... This sports center which contains enough "space" for the game of football, basketball, swimming, gymnastics, table-tennis, boxing, golf, and car racing, plus hold 5,000 spectators. ... The penalties committed by the players have become more thought provoking and sneaky mainly because football, along with most other sports in space, is not about speed or strength anymore but about finesse, strategy, and coordination skill. ...

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My second, is what else but the football team. ... I was recruited by the only senior, the varsity's second baseman and catcher, and the coach asked me to join after seeing me joust a junior wrestler/football player. ...

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The game of baseball has changed derasticaly over the past century. Of course it is played the same way, but everything around it has seemed to change. It is almost as if it has lost its purity. Like things that meant so much to the players back then, don't mean as much to the players...

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August Wilson"s "Fences" spans a wide variety of topics; stretching from father versus son, husband versus wife, and blacks versus whites. These themes are ultimately tied together through the concept of family. In terms of father versus son, Cory had dreams of playing college footb...

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"Using good sportsmanship in Everyday life" Do you want to get hit on the head with a flying elbow because the other team lost? Of course not! No matter the age you can be faced with this threat. You should not ever get smacked with a elbow, but every sport has...

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High School Athletics: Good or Bad Influence? High School Athletics: Good or Bad Imfluence? " In America we have laws, laws against killing, laws against stealing, and its excepted that as a member of American society you will live by these laws. In West Canaan, Texas, there is another society, ...

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The movie, Varsity Blues, shows the way of life for high school football players. In this movie, the towns star quarterback after the starting quarterback suffers a bad knee injury causing him to drop out of football. ...

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Everybody is different when it comes to sports, some like to play the sport and some like to just sit back and watch; my personal preference is to play on the team instead of watch the game. I have played sports my whole life, but I have also been a spectator when it came to a sporting event. When I...

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My "patria", I believe, is the backyard of the house I grew up in. It is the setting of most of my fondest childhood memories. It is a spacious backyard with no trees and a ditch. I lived there for eighteen years and I remember everything about it from playing soccer with the neighborhood kids to...

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It's Up to Me I have always been friends with boys, so we always did what boys would do. We would play basketball or football, watch boys cartoons such as The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, or anything else that boys were always doing at a young age. But that is where the difficult point is in ...

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