1) How should the authorities in the MMA handle a fighter like Fallon Fox?
2) Do transgender athletes have a distinct advantage in sports? Why or Why not?
3) Put yourself in the position of her opponents (or any opponents of transgender athletes). How would you feel competing against transgender athletes? Would it motivate you to work harder or discourage you from competing?
4) How should this be handled in the future?
1.) A good way the authorities should handle an athlete like Fallon Fox is to do a full background check on some one before they allow them into their league.
2.) Yes they do, because men are built to be stronger than women, with a different muscle and bone structure.
3.) Depending on the sport, I suspect that I would feel at an extreme disadvantage, and I wouldn't want to face a transgender athlete, and I would just work harder to beat them and I would not be discouraged about it.
4.) This should be handled in the future by not letting them compete in the gender class that they changed to, and keep them in the class that they were in before the sex change.
Wednesday, May 28, 2014
Wednesday, May 21, 2014
Prefontaine questions
1.) Pre is portrayed as a cocky athlete who is good at what he does, but thinks extremely highly of himself. Pre is portrayed as a person that only thinks about himself and his own needs.
2.) No, he doesn't appear to be a likable character.
3.) An arrogant thing he does to one of his teammates is he tells one of them that he will beat his best running time.
4.) Pre teaches a lesson to a 9 year old boy that you shouldn't get the winning mindset into your mind unless you can actually win.
5.) The current controversy with college athletes is that they are not getting as good of an education as they should be.
6.) One of Pre's goals in highschool was you break a lot of records that the school held.
7.) The living conditions for the Olympic village were very poor, and this reminded us of the Sochi Olympic conditions which occurred this year.
8.) The Olympic scandal that took place during these Olympics was the terrorism and the helicopter exploding with all of the hostages on the inside.
2.) No, he doesn't appear to be a likable character.
3.) An arrogant thing he does to one of his teammates is he tells one of them that he will beat his best running time.
4.) Pre teaches a lesson to a 9 year old boy that you shouldn't get the winning mindset into your mind unless you can actually win.
5.) The current controversy with college athletes is that they are not getting as good of an education as they should be.
6.) One of Pre's goals in highschool was you break a lot of records that the school held.
7.) The living conditions for the Olympic village were very poor, and this reminded us of the Sochi Olympic conditions which occurred this year.
8.) The Olympic scandal that took place during these Olympics was the terrorism and the helicopter exploding with all of the hostages on the inside.
Sunday, May 4, 2014
What is a Sport?
The question that everyone is always asking each other when talking about sports is always, what makes a sport a sport? In my opinion, a sport is anything that takes skill, practice, and determination, which excludes chess. Now the textbook definition for a sport is "an activity involving physical exertion and skill in which an individual or team competes against another or others for entertainment", and this means that sports like baseball, football, track, soccer, basketball, and tennis qualify for this definition, but these are mostly mainstream sports anyways. Now, another argument is that a sport needs to include a ball, but this is not true with many sports, and the sports that do not use a ball still require the same amount of skill and determination as those with a ball. The world of sports is vast and eccentric, but there needs to be a fine line drawn between what is a sport, and what is a hobby.
Cheerleading, in my opinion, takes skill and physical exertion, but I do not think of it as a sport. Many people will put up a decent argument for the sake of cheerleading, but cheerleading shouldn't be thought of as the girls on the sidelines at the football game. Cheerleaders should have their own competitive league competing against other cheer teams, and they should create some sort of point system if they would ever want to be thought of as a sport. I imagine cheerleading is a very difficult thing to do, and they should get more respect for what they do, and not just be thought of as girls on the sidelines. The Olympics is a televised event that happens every 4 years, and has winter and summer events, and in the Olympics, Ping Pong, curling, and many others were allowed into the Olympics. Although the Olympics admitted these to be events in their games, I see ping pong as a hobby and Curling as big joke. Those are some of my opinions on non-sports.
Now I can't name all of the sports in the world, but mostly anything involving a ball is a sport, and even swimming competitively is considered as a sport. Swimming can also be seen as a hobby, but it takes a large amount of skill to competitively swim against others. Another crossover hobby/sport is golf, which takes incredible skill to play professionally, but also can be played at your local golf course with some of your pals in the summer. Chess is more of a hobby that takes a lot of mental knowledge and patience, but it does not have any physical exertion. According to the internet Croquet is a sport, but I do not believe that because I think it is more a hobby that you play at a party with friends, and you mostly just hit the balls as hard as you can, and then quit. The world of sports is vast and eccentric, but there needs to be a fine line drawn between what is a sport, and what is a hobby.
Cheerleading, in my opinion, takes skill and physical exertion, but I do not think of it as a sport. Many people will put up a decent argument for the sake of cheerleading, but cheerleading shouldn't be thought of as the girls on the sidelines at the football game. Cheerleaders should have their own competitive league competing against other cheer teams, and they should create some sort of point system if they would ever want to be thought of as a sport. I imagine cheerleading is a very difficult thing to do, and they should get more respect for what they do, and not just be thought of as girls on the sidelines. The Olympics is a televised event that happens every 4 years, and has winter and summer events, and in the Olympics, Ping Pong, curling, and many others were allowed into the Olympics. Although the Olympics admitted these to be events in their games, I see ping pong as a hobby and Curling as big joke. Those are some of my opinions on non-sports.
Now I can't name all of the sports in the world, but mostly anything involving a ball is a sport, and even swimming competitively is considered as a sport. Swimming can also be seen as a hobby, but it takes a large amount of skill to competitively swim against others. Another crossover hobby/sport is golf, which takes incredible skill to play professionally, but also can be played at your local golf course with some of your pals in the summer. Chess is more of a hobby that takes a lot of mental knowledge and patience, but it does not have any physical exertion. According to the internet Croquet is a sport, but I do not believe that because I think it is more a hobby that you play at a party with friends, and you mostly just hit the balls as hard as you can, and then quit. The world of sports is vast and eccentric, but there needs to be a fine line drawn between what is a sport, and what is a hobby.
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