If you were offered ten million dollars a year for ten years right after you graduated from high school, would you go to college and risk the chance of becoming injured or would you go "pro". Competition these days is causing professional sports teams to be asking guys and girls not much older than myself to make decisions that, frankly, most are not mature or ready enough to make.
One of these athletes is Lebron James, a 6'8" High school Prodigy that has announced he will not go to college, but go straight to the NBA. During the four seasons that he swept through high school at St. Vincent-St. Mary, he demonstrated his will to win and the desire for competition by leading his team to a perfect 27-0 record and a State Division III title. James is 18. The rise in younger NBA players has changed not only the demographics of the league, but has also altered its public image and role in society.
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Jackie Robinson swinging a bat in Dodgers uniform,...Many athletes have the desire to win, but it is the ones that are great that are remembered the best. One example is the PGA seniors. Some people call them grinders. These men genuinely love the game of golf and keep on playing it even into their seventies and eighties. You can think of them as energizer bunnies or Timex watches. They take their lickings, but keep on ticking and all are loyal to their passion
Many older PGA pros have been playing with injuries for the past five, maybe ten years. The thing that keeps them in the sport is the competition. The desire to win. Many pros have decided that this is where they want to be. They keep this in mind with the extreme competition of the professional sports industry hot on...
Competition in Sports
This was a great essay! Your detailed research is evident throughout your work.
I have only one comment, and it is not a criticism, more just a suggestion that I think could have been incorporated. There is also the idea that sport has now been removed from it's original conception, which was that of a past-time designed for exercise and fun. Sport has become so competitive and more about the dollar factor, and outdoing other teams and countries, that we tend to forget that sport is supposed to be fun. It is commonly accepted that once the enjoyment is taken out of any activity and replaced by the desire to be not just the best that you can be, but in fact, the best there has ever been, that the sport or activity participated in loses its original attraction. I won't state that all sports are first entered into purely because the person enjoys them, but I would think that this would be the most popular reason anyone first takes up a sport. Once into the competitive side the sport begins to take on an entity of it's own. We, as the public, do not always help this matter by our constant demands for bigger, better and faster results in the sports arena.
All in all, I commend you on one of the most impressive essays I have seen in a long time. Congratulations
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