Author Archives: Tori Nelson

In sports, most athlete’s want to be the best of best and some will try anything to do so. The determination to win will drive an athlete to use drugs. For instance, famous American track runner Justin Gatlin. He was/is a successful 100m and 200m runner, even made it to the Olympics. He was thenContinue reading “Issues In Sports: Drugs”

Some sports require physical contact like football, soccer, and wrestling. Despite the fact that all of these sports have padding uniforms to decrease the risk of a serious injury, there’s still of a risk of getting hurt. With sports like football and soccer a injury could be life or death. For example, former football playerContinue reading “Issues In Sports: Injuries”

Growing up, most children want to be a police officer, firefighter, doctor or even a veterinarian, but now majority of kids in this generation wants to grow up to be an professional athlete. Maybe it’s because an athlete is paid way more than all the careers I listed. Yes, a basketball player has a largerContinue reading “Issues In Sports: Athlete’s Salary”

One on going issue in the international sport of tennis is discrimination towards women or simply people of color. According to “www.theguardian.com”, in the year 2018 alone, over 70% of the men’s top 200 gained more money than the women. Although critics argue that their pay isn’t determined by their gender but their audience, theContinue reading “Issues In Sports: Discrimination”

Being a student athlete myself I personally know the struggle trying to balance school and after school sports. A student athlete either worries about falling back in class because of sports or not being a good player on the field/court because of school. The typical life of an student athlete is school, practice/game, late homework,sleepContinue reading “Issue In Sports: Student Athletes”