This book revolves around a family with two teenage boys, a mother, and father. Both sons are obsessed with football. The older son Lloyd Brodie, although tough, never advances beyond the Jayvee level and quits his Senior Year. It's all downhill from there, as he drops out of school and spends his time smoking pot and bumming around the house. The reader isn't sure if his denseness is drug induced or due to brain injury, but the author portrays him as a…
In the article “Hard Knocks” there are a lot of prime examples of why football is one of america’s most dangerous sports. Football today is very popular and very widespread as though it has been for decades but, along with its popularity, there are some consequences. Today, there are still fatalities, and broken bones. This game is loved by many but, it is too dangerous. Going out on the field knowing the consequences but not realizing them until it happens, it's the toughest part about the sport.…
Character Essay This man Tim Green really knows how to write a good book that keeps people reading. In the book Football Hero by Tim Green. Ty is the best wide receiver on the team.…
The book I read was Million Dollar Throw by Mike Lupica. This book shows many different struggles Nate and Abby go through leading up to a throw that could change both of their lives completely. I learned that no matter how difficult a situation is, always think about the good and never give up on anything. Nate and his family, and eventually Abby’s are in some very tough battles with money. Throughout the book, this creates Abby’s and Nate’s bond even tighter by learning more about each other.…
The book Gym Candy by Carl deuker is about a boy named Mike Johnson who struggles with trying to make his dad proud of him by playing football and being the best on the team. Mike soon thinks that the only way to become stronger is by steroids. This idea came from his personal trainer Peter Volz. This eventually leads to mike using it and makes him addicted leading to one very intriguing story.…
In the sports novel Heat by Mike Lupica, a 12 year old boy faces a challenge of living with only his older brother Carlos in a tiny house in the Bronx. He pursues a dream of not only playing in the Major Leagues, but playing in the World Series. The book opens with a lady getting robbed of her purse while walking by Yankee stadium. The thief (an 18 year old boy) runs from the cops for a while before being nailed in the back of the head with a baseball. It turns out that the one who threw the ball was he 12 year old boy, Michael.…
Intro: Today I will be talking about Off The Rim Details: The author of this book is Fred Bowen. Fred Bowen was born in Marblehead, Massachusetts, a seaside town north of Boston. His wife was a reporter on a local paper, she suggested that I try writing movie reviews.…
Everybody loves football, well maybe not everyone. But in your book The Underdogs Will Tyler lives and breathes football, he not only loves football, he is also amazing at it, he is the fastest and best player on his team. Your book really made me realize that not Everyone is as fortunate as me. In the book, the town that Will lives in is so poor that they have to shut down the football program, they also don't have enough players to field a team. Will really needs to play football so he turns to the last resort, the option that seems to be impossible.…
In “Football High” produced by Rachel Dretzin and Caitlin McNally aired on April 12, 2011, the dangers of high school football are explored. The 53:11 minute episode deals with the pressures on high school football today and how the game has become more and more physical over the past few years. This documentary focuses on high school football players but the medical impact has effects on all football players who are constantly putting themselves at risk with major hits repeatedly. High school boys love their sport, as do most people involved in the high school, and will do anything to continue playing. They are not aware enough of the risks they are taking when they step on that field.…
Deadline by Chris Crutcher is about a boy names Ben who is eighteen years old, a senior in high school and lives in a small town in Idaho. One day when Ben went for his sports physical his doctors tells him that he has a blood disease and only has less then a year to live. Ben decided not to tell anyone about his disease and to not take treatments. The doctor wasn’t very happy about Ben’s decision, but there was nothing he could do about it, because Ben was eighteen and could legally make his own decisions. Normally Ben would run in cross-country, but since he knows that his time here on earth is cut short he decided to join the football team instead.…
Gavin Hoben Mrs. Williams English 9 CP 17 September 2017 Summer Reading Project- Shoot-Out By: Mike Lupica Summary: The book I read over the summer was called Shoot-Out written by Mike Lupica. This inspiring story is about a soccer player named Jake Stuart. The story begins with main character interacting with his first conflict.…
All sports come with some bruises from time to time. However, in the case of football, these bruises are too severe to simply ignore. The lack of rules is one of the many reasons these bruises occur. Football players can still provide great entertainment for watchers while avoiding head on collisions and kickoffs in the game (Banks 606). Just having these risky methods of winning a game puts all players at high risks of getting injuries.…
The story of one man: Working to shape the lives of many other As humans, we do not know how our lives may turn out or even the people you might touch throughout the duration of life. The drama Hardball made in 2001 directed by Brian Robbins shows just that. In fact, Conor O’Neill being a white male middle age man who did not have any clue of the great works who would accomplish due to his past mischievous ways of making money. Furthermore, he is a gambler who got caught up with betting on games and in result would lost all of 6,000 of someone else’s money. Later he was held captive by men saying he had to repay all the money he owed them or else there would be consequences.…
Through the movie the coach keeps telling the other coaches that making players strong on the field is important so they can be forever strong off the field. This is important from the viewers’ stand point because when people watch the movie they see that they can take a lesson from a completely different area of their life’s and use it to make them strong er in another area. This could apply to anyone who has had to work hard at something in life and has came out a better person because of it. The movie…
Previewing the message: Football is dangerous at every level of play from the high school to the NFL. Injuries will occur at every level. Along with these problems, there are causes and also solutions to these problems that will examined. Transition: I will now begin by explaining the problems with football Body: First Main point: Even though football is the greatest sport on the planet, it quite a few problems with it.…