The book that I’ve read was scorecasting: The Hidden Influences Behind How Sports Are Played and Games Are Won. Scorecasting was created by two people, one of the creators is a University Of Chicago professor Tobias Moskowitz. The other creator is a Sports Illustrated writer L. Jon Wertheim. In this book they’re both answering the questions about the well established myths that go on in sports. The myths Moskowitz and Wertheim covered were on page 3 “Is it really preferable to punt on fourth down rather than go for it? To keep feeding the teammate with the hot hand? To try to achieve the highest available spot in the drafts? Is there an I in team? Does defense truly win championships?” The two also looked at the problems for why the Chicago …show more content…
The well detailed information i’ve gotten from this book made me look at the world of sports much differently. Moskowitz and Wertheim always had some kind of mathematical statistics to back up their hypothesis, they made it easy to understand when they’re answering the different sports myths. They were very successful in being detailed when giving statistic and using recent examples that kept my attention. Though, I did have a disagreement in the chapter “Go for It” starting on page 31 . In this chapter it stated on page 36 “Inside the opponent’s 45-yard line, facing anything less than fourth and eight, teams are better off going for it than punting. Inside the opponent’s 33-yard line, they are better off going for it on anything less than fourth and 11. Regardless of field position, on anything less than fourth and five, teams are always better off going for it.” Knowing that I’m a football fanatic, I disagree with them because they are basically saying we are never going to punt the ball. So if we don`t get the first down, we’re going to use the defense win games myth. That put the pressure on defense to stop the opposing team from scoring with short yardage to the end zone. I know for sure this is not the game of football it's all about field positioning. Overall, I did agree with the some of the stuff Wertheim and Moskowitz said. Like when they found and showed statistics that icing the kicker doesn’t freeze a kicker on page 213. I agree with them because, when it’s minutes left in the game. You should let the kicker, kick the ball because he is more nervous. So when you call a time-out you are given that player time to calm down and adjust to the kick. I wouldn’t change anything in this book if I had the power to serve as editor for the author’s book. The reason being is everything must’ve been correctly
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Intro: In 1946 two members of the New York Giants were found associating with gamblers, trying to fix the NFL Championship Game. These members were suspended and in 1947 the NFL introduced their form of prevention, the injury report (Merritt). Every week NFL coaches have to list their injured players on the NFL Injury Report. Each player has to be listed as either “doubtful,” “questionable,” or “probable” to play that weekend. What a lot of people don’t know is that an ample amount of teams are lying on these reports. By skewing the truth on their player’s injuries it gives that team an advantage. Whether the coaches are putting healthy players on the list, injured players not on the list, or just lying about the severity of the injury, it is all affecting the teams and the fans. I have addressed the problems with the NFL injury report and focused my research on the integrity of the teams and their purpose for lying, how much lying is really going on, and the link between the injury report, the NFL, and gambling.
He begins by discussing Rugby and how hazardous it is for young men. He backs it up by including a quote from the Cornell President, Andrew D. White. Zimmerman (2016) quotes White by stating, “‘The sight of a confused mass of educated young men making batter-rams of their bodies, plunging their heads into each other’s stomachs, piling upon each other or maiming each other for life- something indeed… killing each other… is a brutal monstrosity’” (p. 1). By using this hyperbolic quote Zimmerman in injecting pathos into his argument in order to manipulate the reader. Pathos can definitely sway an audience’s opinion when used correctly, however, Zimmerman’s use of it here is considerably poor because it adds a bit of repetitiveness to his paragraph due to the fact that before the quote he states something very similar too it. Instead it may have been better if he stated a statistic that added more support and validation to his statement. Zimmerman (2014) then goes onto state, “Amid newspaper reports of 18 football deaths that fall” (p. 2). While this fact has potential to help maintain Zimmerman’s stance against football, it fails and becomes almost invalid because of how this statistic is from 1905. It has little impact with an audience with present day. While Zimmerman speafootball in the past and the days of rugby he could have instead spoken of why the American sport is a problem now, in present day. By focusing too much on explaining the past of football he has not given enough evidence and backing on why it is still so dangerous in present day. Zimmerman then goes onto discuss the inclusion of the forward pass and then the introduction of helmets. However, his argument still lacks solid evidence and statistics for backing up what he is claiming. For instance, when Zimmerman (2014) writes, “helmet-to-helmet hits remain one of the key causes of concussions and
In 1913 legendary football coach, Robert Zuppke, coached football for the University of Illinois (“Illinois” para. 1). Robert Zuppke led their 1914 football season to be undefeated! This created many more fans for the college football team (“Illinois” para.1). For 29 years Robert zuppke coached and he and his team won four national titles in the years of 1914, 1919, 1923, 1927 (“College” para. 8). Illinois third football coach, Edward Hall, had wrote the football code for proper conduct of players (“College” para. 14). From the years of 1971 through 1976 Bob Blackman was a football coach in Illinois (“College” para. 4). NFL stars Larry McCarren, Scott Studwell, and Revie Sorey were some of the players that Bob Blackman coached (“College” para. 4). Some coaches like George Woodruff only coached 1 season at the University of Illinois (“College” para. 11). Other coaches led the team to many victories though like Pete Elliott did in 1963 (“College” para. 3).
These are just a few ways of how the NFL has changed into the game it is today. Although I didn’t cover a lot of the other years I covered the starting years that got this show on the road. Most of the things I talked about in this paper are still in use today so that means that that transformed the game into the game it is today.
In the book entitled Out of Their League, David Meggyesy describes his life as a football player from high school through his days with the St. Louis Cardinals of the National Football League (NFL). Born in 1941, Meggyesy was raised in a low-income household in Solon, Ohio. Like many athletes from impoverished backgrounds, he was able to use the game of football to better himself though both a full scholarship to Syracuse University and financial stability with the Cardinals. During his career, however, Meggyesy became increasingly disillusioned with the game of football and how its athletes were subject to tremendous physical and psychological turmoil from those in power—namely the coaches and the NFL team owners. He began to see the game of football from a conflict theorist point of view. This is the belief that sport is an opiate used to benefit those in power through the exploitation of athletes which enables those such as coaches and team owners to maintain their power and privilege in society. (Coakley, 1998) Meggyesy's growing disenchantment with football and adoption of a conflict theorist point of view led him to retire from the Cardinals in 1969.
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Brain knows what he is talking about when it comes to football since he is a sport's writer, he uses a lot of knowledge of the game. Also, Philips’s is basically saying that men do not seek any kind of help what so ever because they are afraid to be called “weak”. The example Philips’s uses is about how Jonathan Marten left his football career to seek help for his emotional issues. The Shadow Leagues’ J.R. Gamble called Martin “soft” and another ex-player of the Dolphins lineman Lydon Martha said that Martin was “standoffish and shy”. That Martin “broke the code”. Philips’s tone is also that men tell it like it is, and if you don’t like it then you aren’t a man. In football, some team members haze other team members, it just them being them. It’s quite funny how no one thought of Joe Heisman was soft for leaving the game when he broke his leg. Everyone supported him and was there for him and never bullied him for that. They say that if Martin was to leave for a family matter or anything other than to “seek emotional help” that he would have never been bullied and that no one would have looked down on him. After everything that happen with Martin, they put in place a “strict anti-hazing policy”. Football is like the military, because they are both hardcore, you need to be a man in either one of those, there is no pansy allowed otherwise they will send you
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First of all, the rules of football require one to equip himself with approximately twenty pounds of equipment, including a helmet, shoulder pads, and girdle pads. This is because football has the most contact involved out of all sports. In a football game, the norm is that the home team wears colorful jerseys and the visiting team wears white jerseys. Moreover, if a team’s offense is on the field, their defense is on the sideline. A team’s offense includes a center, who snaps the ball to the quarterback. The “QB” then has a choice to run with the ball, hand it off to a running back, or throw it to a wide receiver. The quarterback has an offensive line to protect him from the assailing defense. If a teammate happens to score a touchdown, he earns his team six points, which allows for the kicker to kick an extra point, and give his team a total of seven points. However, if the offense fails to travel at least ten yards within four attempts, or “downs,” they have the opti...
Should the instant replay used in the NFL be applied to others sport. One sport in particular that need this technology is Football (soccer). Allowing instant replay in soccer it would help a lot two biggest reason why are; help referee make betters decision and second but not least the camera behind the goalkeeper net should be allow in that way invisible goals(goals that pass the net but exit) should be allow. In United State sport like Baseball, Basketball and even NFL (American football) used this technology and been successfully accepted general the fans have welcomed it because they know the importance of a good call that can not only help the referee make a good judgment but also help the team.
Rosenberg, Michael. “This Changes Everything.” Sports Illustrated 117.2 (2012): 21-22. SPORTDiscus with Full Text. Web. 3 Apr. 2014
Sports psychology is the study of how psychology influences sports, athletic performance, exercise and physical activity. Some sports psychologists work with professional athletes and coaches to improve performance and increase motivation. Other professionals use exercise and sports to enhance people’s lives and well-being. While finding ways to help athletes is certainly an important part of sports psychology, the application of exercise and physical activity for improving the lives of non-athletes is also a major focus.
The ball comes speeding over the net and slams down onto the face of the court landing just beyond the base line, the line running along the back of the court. I had called her winning point... "out." As I turned towards her, I could see the anger building in her eyes. We walked towards each other, and with only the net separating us, she began to confront me. She argued that, as she saw it, the ball was obviously in and that we should replay the point. I wanted this game as much as she did and we were both standing strong. I finally decided that there was no use in fighting. We had to resolve this argument between ourselves because there were no line judges to decide for us. We decided to replay the point and she won. I tried to convince myself that there would be times when a call would be questionable and that I should try not to point fingers. I still went home discouraged that night because I knew that the call I had made was fair.