Essays Tagged: "Team sport"

VIOLENCE IN SPORTS

ts include violence. Not many actually express violence, the only ones that do contain violence are team sports. I'm not saying that I dislike team sports, au contraire I love team sports, they help b ... uld have nowhere else to go or nothing else to do.Some people tell others to keep their kids out of team sports to avoid getting involved in a gang. What those people don't realize is that those kids ...

(2 pages) 103 0 2.7 Jan/1996

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Sports

Skiing vs. Skating; Judgment Day.

ng goalie gloves.As well as all else, skiing and skating are done with a different aspect as far as team and individual sports go. Skating is usually associated with hockey, which is a team sport, and ... g is usually associated with hockey, which is a team sport, and team sports obviously are played in teams, with numerous people working together. Now this is good for some people who like to try and w ...

(3 pages) 29 1 3.3 Jun/2003

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > Creative Writing > Comparative Essays

The origin or history of Lacrosse.

ll games being played by AmericanIndians at the time of European contact. Almost exclusively a male team sport, it isdistinguished from the others, such as field hockey or shinny, by the use of a nett ... id-eighteenth century GreatLakes area, are scant and often conflicting. They inform us mostly about team size, equipmentused, the duration of games and length of playing fields but tell us almost noth ...

(2 pages) 22 0 5.0 Jun/2003

Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History

What is the "new" physical education?

kids activities that they can use for the rest of their lives. Instead of just playing traditional team sport in class they are now showing kids how they can exercise in a more fun and innovative way ...

(4 pages) 87 1 3.0 Apr/2004

Subjects: Humanities Essays

Extracurricular Sports Should Satisfy State Physical Education Requirement

d club sports require great deal of time and effort from athletes. The county should recognize that team sports encourage physical activity more effectively than P.E. class and spark more enthusiasm f ...

(2 pages) 49 0 3.0 May/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

Basketball

ll, the start of the NBA, and how the game has changed throughout the years."From the beginning, no team sport aimed higher. In 1891, in a YMCA in Springfield, Massachusetts, a young Canadian-born ins ... professional league that would change sports entertainment forever. (Hollander, 40) Among the first teams of the new league were the Detroit Falcons, the New York Knickerbockers and the Philadelphia W ...

(2 pages) 61 3 4.3 Aug/2004

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Sports

Explaining a concept- Nickel Defense.

t popular American Sports. Millions of fans fill huge stadiums on fall weekends to watch the 11 man team sport. Football first developed from the sport Rugby, a game played in Europe.In football there ...

(2 pages) 12 0 0.0 Nov/2005

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Sports

Volleyball

the body that overseas college and university sports in the USA. In 1918, the number of players per team was set at six. The official birthday of volleyball in Russia was July 28, 1923. Volleyball bec ... There are 800 millions players worldwide who play volleyball at least once a week. Volleyball is a team sport played by two teams on a court divided by a net. Its gaining popularity worldwide, behind ...

(1 pages) 30 0 1.0 Dec/2005

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Sports

TGFU- Teaching Game for understanding: This is a paper on understanding the different method for teaching sport

Assignment #1 Analytical Paper: Effective Instruction of Team Sport."There is more than one way to teach games, and it may not be necessary to separate skill ... . Bunker and Thorpe created the TGFU model in a way that would allow all students to participate in team games. Their model consists of six key steps, which include game, game appreciation, tactical a ... ants and their roles; the players establish their responsibility. Next, the attacking and defending teams determine their objectives for what they are trying to achieve. For example, the offence tryin ...

(13 pages) 50 0 5.0 Apr/2006

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Education

Sports build character

ort a person takes up, it helps that person develop perseverance, patience and humility. If it is a team sport like hockey or basketball, the person will also learn to be a team player as well.When a ... gh the process of improving himself, he becomes humbler and more likely, a better person.If it is a team sport in which a person is participating, he has to learn to discard any notions of personal gl ...

(1 pages) 12 0 0.0 Feb/2007

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > Creative Writing > Persuasive Writing

Spectator Violence

ikely to occur. It was found that, spectator violence is more likely to occur during or following a team sport event rather than a individual sport. Spectator violence is also often an occurance of fu ...

(1 pages) 3 0 0.0 Oct/2001

Subjects: Art Essays > Film & TV Studies > Film Review and Analysis

The Things I Carry As A Team Member

The Things I Carry As A Team Member Have you ever watched a game where the team members don't communicate or get along with ... u ever watched a game where the team members don't communicate or get along with each other? If the teamwork lacks, chances are the team won't do very well. As a member of the MSU-B volleyball team th ... de.The most visible sign of dedication is my uniform. Wearing a uniform not only helps identify the teams, it brings a sense of unity. A successful team must feel like they belong together, when on th ...

(4 pages) 12 0 0.0 Oct/2001

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

Sports Hazing

ports.Initiation is an important part of hazing in any level of sports. It gives new members of the teams a sense of belonging; it builds common experiences among the whole group and sets norms among ... ation. It is the causing of community spirit, equality, and togetherness for new members (Myers 1). Team unity is a very important part to coming and playing on a new team where the rookies just want ...

(7 pages) 2225 0 0.0 Nov/2001

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

Systems Theory As Applied To Cool Runnings

a burst of confidence in the western bar and goes out to try and fight someone from another bobsled team. When he starts to fight the rest of the team that was there enters the fight. When the team re ... the team returns to their rooms, their coach reprimands them. Even though one of the members of the team was not there, the attitudes of the rest of team is sure to have affected the team mate that st ...

(3 pages) 40 0 0.0 Feb/2008

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Psychology > Psychological Theories & Authors

Women In Male Dominated Sports

Women In Male Dominated Sport Football is considered to be a male dominated team sport. In 1996, Roosevelt high School in Yonkers, New York allowed two females to play on their ... two females to play on their football team.These were the first two females to play on the football team, followed by one in 2001.With these females participating in a male dominated sport it changed ... ed the idea of males and females sticking to gender specific sport. The school, the parents and the team members were very supportive of the females. This exemplifies a cross between the gender bounda ...

(1 pages) 2249 0 5.0 Feb/2008

Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Civil Rights > Women's Studies

Perception Intuition, it's all in the mind.

INTUITIVE PLAY IN TEAM SPORTSIn scientific terminology, 'reading the play' refers to pattern recall or recognition. Wa ... cept as many opposition passes as possible - just ask Brian Habana.What has chequers got to do with team sports?Pattern recall was first investigated in the game of chequers. Research was able to demo ... block of numbers rather than as eight individual numbers.Sports science has demonstrated that elite team-sport players also possess the analytical mind of a chequers master. For example, research has ...

(4 pages) 11 0 0.0 Feb/2009

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Sports