Sentences with phrase «in violent sports»

Following a number of high - profile deaths in boxing ahead of the 2016 Summer Olympics, Nick J Watson asks whether Christians should watch and participate in violent sports

Stories abound of individuals who have been «saved» by engaging in violent sports such as boxing and MMA.

Not exact matches

Violent behavior — no matter how seemingly minor — should not be acceptable in any sport or from any athlete.

It was a tough decision, but my morals will not let me compete in such violent sport against a German.

«Wrestling is a combat sport, and at times it gets violent, and you get put in moves and holds that are comprising,» said Joel Northrup, a sophomore.

One can deduce that the family's Christian convictions allow for their son to inflict violence on a boy but not a girl, and that given that wrestling is a combat sport, and at times violent, it is fine that two boys can be put in moves and holds that are compromising.

The film follows several pastors and popular fighters in a quest to reconcile their faith with a sport that many consider violent and barbaric.

Football is unique among major team sports not because of its violence — hockey and rugby are violent, basketball is a contact sport, and baseball players can get rocked in the eye socket by a 101 - mph weapon — but because of its specialization.

So maybe this wasn't the most exciting way to restart his rugby career, but still, he's good enough to play with some of the best in the world at two different, incredibly violent sports.

The only purpose the comments in this post could potentially serve is allowing more members of the dumbest and most violent fan base in North American professional sports to continue to troll.

In most cases when an athlete goes after one of the valid records of sport (Roger Maris» pursuit of Babe Ruth's home run record, for instance) his efforts generate violent partisanship among fans and players.

But contact sports like football tend to involve athletes who are bigger, faster and stronger, resulting in collisions that have become increasingly more violent.

You are giving 21 - 23 year old kids millions of dollars as well as fame, asking them to sacrifice their bodies in one of the most competitive sports in the world and it's violent on top of that.

«As you know in sports, sometimes athletes view that the more violent the action is it feels like its powerful, but in reality the opposite in true,» Goody said.

This creates a very dangerous culture in college sports where players, coaches, and administrators act with impunity when it comes very serious violent crimes that physically, mentally and emotionally harm other people, women in particular.

This is typical of you, by the way, since you already watch college football, a violent sport in which the labor is underpaid, management takes exorbitant salaries, and the playing field is anything but level for most companies.

Brain trauma among football players (and athletes in other sports such as soccer and ice hockey) may be less the result of violent collisions that cause concussions as the cumulative effect of repetitive head impacts (RHI).

Opposition to MMA legalization stems in part from women's groups who find the sport too violent, while labor unions that have feuded with UFC's ownership in Las Vegas have also backed an effort to oppose the measure.

«It's like a bar brawl, it's violent,» said one woman who added she'd be comfortable with the sport being legalized in New York as long it's regulated.

So what explains foolish dares and violent sports, in which people risk grave injury to pursue respect?

Researchers with the National Institutes of Health say that Junior Seau, a star defender in the U.S. National Football League (NFL), had a degenerative brain disease linked to athletes who suffer chronic head trauma associated with violent sports, according to The New York Times.

An autopsy study showed that Duerson's brain was riddled with classic signs of chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), a form of brain damage that is becoming an increasing concern among athletes in violent contact sports.

Karpman said there is risk in any contact sport but that MMA, more than any other, faces a stigma from the medical community from physicians who see the sport as ultra-bloody and violent.

«My sports have always been extremely aggressive and violent,» he told mindbodygreen in an email, «so finding calm in the eye of the storm is important.»

Shawn Levy, who directed such lucrative disasters as the Steve Martin remakes of The Pink Panther and Cheaper by the Dozen, has been brought in by Steven Spielberg to make this conflation of The Champ (the 1931 tearjerker about a drunken boxer redeemed by his long - estranged son, Jackie Cooper) and Rollerball, the futuristic action flick built around a violent popular sport.

In a future world ruled by industrialists, «civilized» society has removed violent activity and a new sport, rollerball, has emerged.

Though Meaney plays McGuinness in a naturalistic manner that makes palpable the character's regrets about the loss of life resulting from his own party's violent actions, Spall — sporting heavy makeup and buck teeth — takes this role as an opportunity to indulge in his inner ham.

Here in England, when it comes to film, the national sporting pastime of football (soccer) has been pretty much regulated to cheap, violent hooliganism feature so the unorthodox blend of India and Australia and use of cricket is a refreshing point of view (I also write this before the onslaught of U.S cities being destroyed truly takes hold of summer).

Jean Reno is not horrible as the zealous owner of the violent sport while Chris Klein and Rebecca Romijn - Stamos show new lows in acting.

An amazing randomized experiment of a Chicago program called Becoming a Man — Sports Edition, demonstrates that participating in aggressive sports is particularly effective for disadvantaged youth in improving school engagement and reducing violent Sports Edition, demonstrates that participating in aggressive sports is particularly effective for disadvantaged youth in improving school engagement and reducing violent sports is particularly effective for disadvantaged youth in improving school engagement and reducing violent crime.

Mutant Football League is a 7 - on - 7 arcade - style, fully 3D sports video game where creatures of all kinds take the field to battle it out in the most violent game ever played!

Gaming became increasingly aware of its growing legacy: in an industry obsessed with the cutting edge and beyond, there was a greater value attached to the past, and a more sophisticated appreciation of what games can do, aside from big - budget guns and sports, both violent and virtual.

This and much more violent action you'll find in The Brutal Sports Series Football.

4:30 PM Tim Spears, professor of American studies, will give a talk focusing on the lives and representations of athletes who once competed in violent contact sports, such as boxing and football, and explore the meanings that Americans attach to the aging or diminished male body.

Acutely aware and critical of black representation in mainstream media, Jafa incorporates a wide range of imagery, collaging and interspersing clips of figures such as Martin Luther King Jr., Barack Obama, James Brown, Beyoncé, and Freddie Gray, as well as hip - hop performances, sports games with predominantly black athletes, and violent police arrests of black men and women.

Florida authorities said three teenagers — one 14 - year - old and two 16 - year - olds — stole a sport utility vehicle, sped away from officers and died in a fiery, violent crash early Sunday morning.

Many traumatic brain injuries happen in car crashes, bicycle or motorcycle accidents, falling incidents, contact sports, and as a result of violent crimes such as gunshots.

Dana White says Conor McGregor is in SERIOUS trouble following his violent bus attack in Brooklyn... confidently telling TMZ Sports the UFC's biggest star is «going to jail.