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What do you think about the influence of sports teams in schools? Do you think there is too much influence on sports teams instead of academics? Or do you think they balance out well?
What do you think about the influence of sports teams in schools? Do you think there is too much influence on sports teams instead of academics? Or do you think they balance out well? If you don’t then which one is focused on more and is it a good or bad thing?

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2 comments - What do you think? Posted by admin - April 5, 2010 at 10:49 pm

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What do you think are interesting news reports to debut when school comes back in session in August?

I’m an anchor for the school news and we need interesting ideas for reports to work on when school starts in August.

Obviously, the need to be fresh, capturing ideas, but intended for a high school audience. Nothing inappropiate can be used.

Be the first to comment - What do you think? Posted by admin - March 31, 2010 at 9:44 am

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Do you think the news does a good job of reporting relevant stories?

All the news media have different audiences and approaches to writing stories. With that said what do you think is news worthy? Do you care about celebrities or would you like to hear about more political issues? What would you like to see on the news? Or should the news have a mixture of all so that it is not just one-sided and depressing?

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4 comments - What do you think? Posted by admin - March 29, 2010 at 10:29 am

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What news station do you think has the most accurate information about each Obama and McCain?

Although I am only 16, I find it extremely difficult to turn it to a news station nowadays because if one news station supports Obama, of course they are only going to say positive things about him and vice versa with McCain. What news station do you think has the most accurate information about each Obama and McCain? Also, do you think that someone should research a candidate completely before voting for them? Like looking up their records? How well have you researched the candidate you are voting for? Thanks!

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14 comments - What do you think? Posted by admin - March 26, 2010 at 7:20 am

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Are You Crazy For Collecting Sports Memorabilia? Look And See How Many People Think Like You

Hobby for collecting sports memorabilia is increasing day by day Many people who regularly watch games like baseball; basketball, hockey and football love collecting sports memorabilia like this http://www.sports-collectibles-store.com/collegepooltablecovers.html of their favorite clubs. It has a sentimental as well as an economic value to the collectors.

In auctions various valuable sports items used by the sportstars on the particular memorable games are sold in dollars. Sotheby’s is such a auction house where various sports items are sold. For some people money matters a little to buy these sports memorabilia. A an example, the ball which in1998 Mark Mcgwire hit for the 62nd run was sold for over one million dollar. And you can have the thousand of examples of such million dollar auctions.

If you go to to the history you will find that collecting the sports memorabilia was there even in the twentieth century. That time many people used to accumulate baseballs from many baseball games. And later we see the great bambino Baba Ruth was so popular that people used to ask him for the autographs. As the years gone people are becoming more interested collecting sports memorabilia.

In 1980s NBA,MLB,NHL and NFL have started selling jerseys wore by the famous players in their memorable games.From that time it has become a craze to collect the sports jerseys and till today it is the hottest item in sports memorabilia. Dennish Rodman, a former NBA player was also famous for throwing out the jerseys after the games were over.There is another basketball player Michael Jordan whose memorabilia is the most demanding by the collectors.

In 1970 Brazil won the worldcup soccer.Pele became the legendary figure in soccer and the yellow Brazil jersey that Pele wore in the final match was sold in $224,000 in auction. It is the all time record in the history of auction .

The fight posters of Jack Johnson and John L. Sullivan were sold at high prices years back. A boxing glove that was signed by Ruth, Johnson, Sullivan and many other stars along with the American Presidents were sold in million dollars and is now being exhibited at the International Boxing Hall Of Fame.

Pete Rose is one of the famous sport stars who was very popular to the people and the items he used were sold at high prices.

The value of the sports items depend on various aspects including players’ form,popularity ets. Sometimes items of a particular game become highly expensive.

For the people who only consider the memorabilia as having a sentimental value, they always look at it as an important moment of life shared with his or her favorite stars or teams.

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Be the first to comment - What do you think? Posted by admin - March 11, 2010 at 10:39 pm

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What are the Best Sport Gifts you Can Think Of?

Sports gifts are basically gifts which are meant to show the recipient you remember his or her fondness for a particular sport. Thus, your sports gifts could be a football signed by an NFL player, or a basketball that used to personally belong to an NBA player. The more unique, original and creative the sports gift, the higher the probability it will be treasured by the recipient for a long time (maybe forever if you are considered a special friend by the recipient.)

Some sports gifts still have a functional value, like a football, a baseball, or a basketball which are all in good shape and may still be used during games. But it is not recommended you actually use these sports gifts in real sports matches because the value of the sports gift hinges on its current state. That is why some sports gifts may even become traded with other sports gifts collectors for either cash or another more desirable sports gift. The harder the sports gift is to come by, the higher its value. And in the final analysis, value is dependent on how each person perceives the sports gift. What may seem valuable to one person could be considered junk by another – like, if someone gives a baseball bat to a person who is not a baseball fan, that person will just store the sports gift somewhere until he can find someone who values it more than he does. Otherwise, it is just something that will occupy space in his closet.

What is the best type of sports gift? The best sports gifts are those which will be treasured by the recipient, that are in great condition, and which are good conversation starters. Some less expensive sports gifts you might want to check out are sports apparel – like the sweaters of Ivy League universities; or baseball caps for US baseball teams. Though many counterfeiters make a thriving business churning out cheap imitations of such sports gifts, you will probably be remembered by your recipient with more fondness if you can manage to procure the real thing. Nothing says friendship better than an original product, someone should have said a long time ago, because imitations should be reserved for less-valued relationships (or for desperate times when income is lean.)

Sports gifts might be divided into gifts that belong to the amateur type of sports and those that belong to the pro level sports matches. Amateur sports are university and college level sports while examples of pro matches are basketball games in the National Basketball Association (NBA) and the National Football League (or NFL.) If you select sports gifts that are symbols of well known players (like a very highly valued college basketball player, or a pro basketball player like Michael Jordan), the value of such sports gifts would be much higher compared to gifts that symbolize or represent lesser-known players or even just the reserve players. It is like saying a statue of the national hero of your country has a greater value than a photo of a simple security guard of your office building. One’s accomplishments dictate one’s stature.

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Be the first to comment - What do you think? Posted by admin - February 24, 2010 at 9:47 pm

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Why We Watch Sports – (And It’s Not What You Think)

Whether you want to believe it or not, we like to watch sports for very different reasons than you may think. In fact, the real things that cause us to like sports are in every person, whether we like sports or not. What things can we learn about human nature by simply looking at our fascination with competition? The answers may surprise you. Not only are the answers interesting in themselves, but they may just help you in other ways too.

There are some fairly straightforward and obvious explanations for why we like sports to be sure. Sports teach us about loyalty, perseverance and honor. It gives us a way to bond, it’s cathartic, and we identify with teams and players. We live vicariously through the players we watch. We have our favorite players, and there are teams we’ve grown up rooting for because our brother or dad used to love them, and now we still root for them today. Or we may follow a sport now that we used to play as a child.

But there are some deeper, more powerful and fascinating reasons too.

We’re All Just Big Children

Whether you want to believe it or not, all adults are just big children. We’re all just big kids. We just hide our true feelings and thoughts with highly developed skills (or at least most of us do). We still want to belong or be accepted by our peers, we all still want to be loved, we still feel emotional pain, and we still find ourselves giving in to immediate gratification when we know better. And yes, some of us still lie and cheat in our normal day to day lives.

We certainly hide things better and often successfully ‘act’ as if we don’t care about belonging, or love, or pain, or whatever. Deep down inside we are a little more mature and wise, but basically still just children. We may not say it out loud anymore, but we still think to ourselves sometimes, “That’s not fair!” We would rather play than work. Some may argue, depending on whether they pee standing up or sitting down, that this is especially true for men. Maybe that’s why there are more men sports fans than women.

You see, watching sports gives us a perfect, safe and secure, black and white, little microcosm of life. Following a player, team or game allows us to experience ups and downs and a whole array of emotions, just like in real life, but we aren’t actually affected.

And unlike life, sports and games are generally fair! There are rules and a crystal clear framework, or paradigm that all the participants and spectators know about. There are never any monkey wrenches thrown into a sports game, like the rules changing mid-game for instance. If rules are broken, the offender is penalized. They don’t frustratingly get away sometimes like in real life.

At the end, there is an unambiguous winner and loser. We get to pretend that the game we’re watching is life, where everything is perfectly fair, everyone plays by the rules and everything makes sense.

Children tend to think of things in much more black and white terms. It is only through living and maturing that we realize that all of life is a series of grays. But we all still long for a simpler and easier life. When things are only seen in black or white, things indeed seem simpler and easier, but life isn’t so clear-cut.

This helps explain why politicians who break their platform down into simple sound bites and into terms devoid of complexity often do better than politicians who talk about life like it really is, a complex, interrelated world of nuances.

Watching sports allows us a temporarily safe and socially acceptable way to be more like our true nature, and our true nature is frighteningly childlike. So the next time you deal with a difficult person, remember that they are just a large child, like you and everyone else, and maybe that knowledge will help you deal with them a little more easily.

What do watching a horror movie and sports have in common?

Ever wonder why so many people, including maybe you, enjoy watching horror movies so much? They provide a safe way for people to experience high levels of suspension without actually being in any real danger. Sports can be the same way. Again, watching sports allows us to enter a perfect world where the suspenseful outcome has no bearing on our real lives (unless you have a nasty sports gambling problem of course).

People love drama, suspension, and resolution, which are all elements inherent in sports. In fact, the closer the game, the more suspension there is. If we identify with a player and he wins, we are vicariously happy for the success. However, if the player’s team loses, we feel the defeat a little as well. But our lives are unaffected. And sports announcers usually only add to the drama and suspension.

A sports game is a sort of story. There is a beginning and an end. There is a protagonist (your team) and an antagonist (the other team). There is a scene and setting, the stadium at noon, and there is a plot, which is the action. Only after the games ends, and depending on if your team won or not, is it decided to be called a fairy tale ending or a tragedy.

Reptilian Brain and War

Whether you want to believe it or not, humans are a lot closer to nature and the animal world than most people like to think. We’re not just close to nature; we’re a part of it! Evolutionarily speaking, we are much closer in time to our unintelligent animal ancestors than we are to a transcended sentient species apart from nature. Our behavior is guided much more by our ‘primitive brain’ than our more recently developed neocortex, which is the seat of our intelligence. The primitive brain, or lower brain function, deals with fight or flight behavior, hunger, fear, and sex, among other things.

A common, yet erroneous concept is that the human brain is the result of billions of years of evolution. Our primitive or reptilian part of the brain is that old, but our brain’s extra large neocortex, the thing that separates us from other mammals, came about only a couple million years ago, a mere drop in the evolutionary bucket. The neocortex has not had much time to develop, and so our primitive brain plays a significant role in our lives.

Our basic flight or fight mentality is manifested in sports. We can relate, on some deeper and unconscious level, with the guy running with the football towards the end zone and being chased by a pack of angry men. We can understand what it feels like to check another player in hockey and slam him into the boards. Or we can sympathize with the NASCAR driver who gets passed by a competitor, but throws it into a higher gear and chases after him.

Our primitive desire for dominance is represented in sports. When our team wins, we experience a sort of dominance over the opposing team and their fans.

Our predatory nature is lit up when we see a linebacker following a running back through a mass of football players, waiting for the perfect moment to strike his prey with a tackle. Watching someone chase the man with the ball in basketball, soccer, or baseball affects us in similar ways.

Our tribal instincts are fulfilled by sports. We all want to belong to something; it’s a basic human need since we are such social animals. We identify with a team like our ancestors would identify with their tribe. This is especially true for the Western world’s modern man, where community has taken a back seat to independence.

Our primitive warring nature is satisfied by sports. There seems to be an innate desire for war, even in so-called ‘modern’ man. Indeed, look at the world today and how many current wars are going on, and you’ll see how far we are to real peace. Pathetically, that last statement holds true for almost any time in history, regardless of when you’re reading this. Again, this goes back to the fact that we are ruled more by our ‘primitive’, survival-driven, fight or flight brain than our reasonable and intelligent ‘modern’ brain.

Every sports game is like a tiny war between tribes, with an end and a declared victor. But there’s one important distinction; unlike war, no one has to die in sports.

One of the reasons going to a game is more exciting than watching it on TV is that there is a kind of energy created when so many people get together and root for one cause. You might even liken it to a mob mentality. We don’t have to look farther than our own stadiums where pandemonium has broken out in protest to a call or in celebration of a win. Sports strongly appeals to the gaming and struggle instincts of humans.

And since our modern lives no longer contain any real physical danger and all our basic needs are immediately taken care of, we now have a void that needs to be filled somehow, our primitive brain expects it. Sports fit the bill. It gives us the illusion of reality where there are no consequences. It gives us the illusion of battle, war, victory and defeat, without the consequences. And it gives us the illusion of being a child again, even if it’s all temporary.

You may not like sports at all, but we are all a quite childlike inside. We all yearn for some level of drama in our lives. And we are all constantly affected by our primitive brain. Watching sports is one excellent way for people to reconcile these inescapable facts.

Jason OConnor has a BA in Psychology and Philosophy and runs NFL, MLB, NHL, & NBA Tickets

Be the first to comment - What do you think? Posted by admin - February 20, 2010 at 10:26 am

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