Sports Essays

Public Transportation in Sri Lanka is based mainly on the road network which is centered on Sri Lanka’s capital, Colombo. Buses, three-wheelers and trains make up the public transport system. Airports, harbors and waterways are also there. Most of the roads in Sri Lanka are in good condition; however some …

Kinder transport is the name given to the rescue mission that took place nine months prior to the outbreak of the Second World War. The mission was to send of children, most of them Jewish, from Germany to Britain. The United Kingdom took in nearly 10,000 predominantly Jewish children from …

Do you ever get the feeling where your in a situation the clock is winding down to zero and you have the ball, take a shot and it goes in? The feeling when you get the finish shot all the cheers from the crowd applauding you. Basketball played important role …

Services, such as many of those provided by the sports/leisure industry, have the following characteristics that make them different from the manufactured product. Intangibility Inseparability Variability Perishability Lack of ownership Using leisure-related examples, explain the meaning of these terms and discuss their relevance to a marketer in the sports/leisure/tourism industry. …

There has been an ongoing debate as to whether the college athletes should get paid. To my take, I am for these young athletes to get at least some pay. There are many and varied reasons as to why I assert these athletes should get paid. First and foremost, these …

Skate boarding was once, simply a past-time activity. One that surfers did during the summer between the tidal activities that produced waves that were conductive to riding. Over the past several decades it has taken its fair share of roller coaster rises and declines in popularity. Today, the sport of …

Hal, a 50 year old politician, was a college basketball player and stayed fairly active with sports and weekend pickup games through his thirties and early forties (Q1) Having a members only gym near his office facilitated this practice. However, intense campaigning and successful election to the US Congress meant …

I have always been a huge Green Bay Packers fan. I grew up watching the Packers play on TV every Sunday with my grandfather. I never got to actually attend a game at Lambeau “The Frozen Tundra” Stadium, until I went last season with my wife and her dad and …

When people think of great Track and Field athletes, four time Olympic winner, Jesse Owens is always a name that is called. “Jesse” Owens was born James Cleveland Owens, known as J.C. by his family, on September 12, 1913 in Oakville, Alabama. He was the son of sharecroppers Henry and …

Upward social mobility can be regarded as the process that one takes to reach various life aspects. In relation to this Americans in this case believes that sport is one of the probable ways to go upward social mobility. The notion is based on the general opinion that, both men …