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Living in a modern society that has established the government as a democracy encourages the citizens to be vocal about political issues. This notion should apply to all the citizens regardless of their profession or standing in society. When applying politics to sports, the athletes are told they cannot have the same ideas on an issue that involves the whole country by telling them to "stick to sports". In the articles  Should Athletes Stick to Sports?  by Jay Caspian Kang and  The End of “ Stick to Sports”  by Bryan Curtis discuss this idea of athletes and sportswriters breaking out the sports bubble in this new generation. The ability to ignore the increasing political climate has become difficult for everyone to just ignore as Kang states,  "But the latest intrusion of political talk into sports whether you deem it excessive or welcome has had a drastic effect on coverage". This should not surprise anyone especially with the wide divisions in political views an

The term sports can often be associated with the male gender despite females being able to perform the same feats to a certain degree. Even knowing this, people have gone out of their way to exclude people that were not overtly masculine because they had felt that people that were not bursting at the seams with testosterone are inferior. The very people that look to shutout all those that are different from them in appearance are most likely well informed on sports but are ostracized from their depiction of sport connoisseurs. This theme of discrimination is entwined in Scott Almond's article, What I learned in the Locker Room, and Kristin Huckshorn's article, Female Sportswriter Finally Rocks the Boat .  With the Almond piece there is this sense of belonging that is lost on the night editor, Shelly, as she had transitioned from male to female. Whether the reason was to feel comfortable in the body that she had always envisioned or not, the fact still stood that Shelly had not

When did the lights turn out and in the middle of the game too. This is ridiculous to think that in the middle of a hockey game; the refs would just turn out the lights on you. That is really rude to think that the bills are not being paid in the barn. You know what I had the puck too, then wham the lights are gone and it is suddenly pitch black. I do faintly remember the train that was coming to pick me up and take me to me to the hospital if I did not avoid it. I was already expecting it to miss me and in the middle of that thought they just go and turn the lights off on me. Now I believe that I can move, but I am not too sure because the lights are still off. I really hope that they turn the lights back on because I have to get home after this because I got places to be in the morning. This is not the first time that the rink has turned the lights out on me like this, as scared as this makes me feel when they do some shenanigans like this. Usually I am able to pop my body right bac

In the realm that is Sports one of the components that has made these pastimes last is the emotional investment. Whether that be anger, sadness, thrill, or disappointment in your faction's outcome. With these emotions flowing throughout sports from the players to the fans, the birth of Jim Murray's depressing article, If You're Expecting One-Liners , and Mike Royko's more humorous article, A Very Solid Book , are given as they explore two sides of the spectator. Murray's article does not start on a light note as he states, "I lost an old friend the other day. He was blue-eyed, impish, he cried a lot with me, laughed a lot with me, saw a great many things with me. I don't know why he left me. Boredom, perhaps". The character that he describes is not a person, but his own eyes. The loss of his vision had left him feeling as though a major part of his life was now closed off to himself. Now he would have to learn to live without the seeing his family or