Tuesday, December 4, 2007

Advantages of Playing Sports

      Sports have been around in this world for thousands of years ago. Sports have evolved throughout the years. They appeared in the ancient festivals, modern Olympics, school playing yards and in every household. Sports have been introduced to everyone and every country. They are played by everyone from the little kid to an elder. Sports have had and always will have influence in the lives of many people. Many people love to play and watch sports. There are three major advantages of playing sports. The inclusion are to help develop physical skills, make new friends and bring financial benefit.
      The first reason is to help people develop physical skills. Sports will help improve and strengthen muscular tissues. People who have a lot of muscles, they have to train and exercise every day. For instance, go jogging routinely improves legs muscles; football is good for all parts of body, boxing helps hands and chest muscles. Swimming, aerobic and gymnastic can help produce symmetrical body. Besides that, sports help burn calorie and prevent diseases. Some people restored their young body by routinely exercise and play sports. In some cases sports can help prevent, cure critical illnesses and even death. Cancer and heart diseases and muscular degeneration are some of the illnesses that playing sport can help reduce. It is also prevent stress, lack of sleep and lose weight. Therefore, practicing physical skill is very important and necessary for life.
      The second reason is to meet and make friends. Sports help people stay and play together as a team. They will learn to play as a member of team. How they can play fair and improve self – esteem. They will know what common spirit of comradeship and feeling of solidarity. Good team members can come a long way in their professional working days. People who are able to work well with other team members are most likely to be successful. That’s why good team members can help them in their behavior of life for example; resilience and friendliness. Then, it is a place where people can make friends. Sports bring people together every time and everywhere whether at the airport, restaurants or school. You can see sports all over the world.
      The final reason is to bring financial benefit. There are more than thirty football teams in the United States and each one of them represents a billion dollars corporation. They earn their money from selling tickets, advisements and televised networks. Sports also allow many people to be millionaire. Michael Jordan is a good example of someone becoming millionaire due to sports in particularly basketball. David Beckham becomes a rich man from soccer. There are many big contracts in sports world, sometimes they could get up to hundreds of millions dollars; Alex Rodriguez, a baseball superstar just signed a big contract with the Yankees for 275 million dollars. Beside that Sports help provide college scholarships. If you are a good student athlete you will a chance to apply to great college and eligible to receive scholarships. Every year hundreds of top schools award athletes over $1 billion in sports scholarships. There are often other benefits to sports participation. The goal of this site (http://www.athleticaid.com) is to help high school athletes find information and advice that can guide them through the university and college sports recruiting process and help them find the opportunity that is right for them. Sports also allow people to travel around different cities and countries. For instance, the Chinese will organize the next Olympic. Therefore sportsman from around the globe will go to China to compete and travel around Beijing and other cities there. They will view beautiful sight and eat different kind of foods.
      To summarize, sports have many advantageous; all of them are means for better and healthy life. Sports help prevent catastrophic diseases. Sports also bring wealth and fame to many people as well. Sports can teach things that can never be taught in a classroom or at a workplace. Most importantly sports help bring people with different personalities, ethnic and races together which in turn will create a better world.

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