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    ESports are true sports. They take hours upon hours of practice every day just like any physical sport, if the gamers want to be the best. In five years the game League of Legends (LOL) has seen 32 million people play daily. The sporting events have prize pools totaling millions of dollars. ESport events can have tens of millions of people viewing them. Governments all around the world are treating these sports the same way they do physical sports. Electronic games can be professional sports. For a team

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    boys and girls, the introduction to sports is often a life changing event. For me, it has been an indelible mark of endearment that has left me captivated since my earliest memory. While I would later go on to explore other passions such as business, law, and politics, it is the synthesis of these affections that drive my career direction and goals. (possible new sentence) From a very young age, I was always an ardent sports fan. My participation in sports was at various levels, but I always had

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    In recent years, it is acknowledged that sport professionals earn huge salaries that exceed other respected professionals by far. This situation has sparked a heated debate with opinions on both sides, in favor and against. Some people argue that is irresponsible to pay such amount of money to people who have borned with a natural gift to play certain sport. They believe this is unfair for other professionals that spent several years studying hard and have to deal with notably serious situations

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    athletic and personal record of professional cyclist Lance Armstrong has made him an icon in modern-day sports. He won the tour de France a record seven consecutive times between 1999 and 2005” (Levinthal, C. 2014). Should sport authorities allow the use of performance-enhancing drugs (PED) in all professional sport? It is not unfair that one person won the tour de France seven consecutive times by doping? What about other participants? Personally, I believe that sport authorities should not allow the

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    Lockouts in professional sports happen very often in America and have many negative effects on the owners of the sport team, the players involved with the sport, and the economy. Lockouts happen regularly in sports because of labor disputes between the owners and the athletes. These labor contract disputes usually last a long time and have a negative impact one lot of things. Most lockouts lately have been in football, hockey, and basketball, but baseball has not had a lockout in twenty years. Lockouts

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    PEDs should be allowed in professional sports. Sports organizations fail to offer a level playing field for all of their athletes. The primary reason PEDs are outlawed, is because they give the user an unfair advantage over other players. But if players are still using them regardless of the rules, then the playing field is unfair. Testing has done little to decrease the use of PEDs, let alone eliminate it. It’s simply unrealistic to catch everyone guilty. Sports leagues have a hard time trying

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    The intricate field of sports analytics is becoming a booming field due to the competitive advantage that statistical data may provide to one team as it competes against another. Data researchers, engineers, coaches and players are figuring out how to create accurate modeling and are calculating data in real time to problem solve and drive strategic decision making, Through the use of analytical algorithms, data analytics has the capability of continually breaking down each and every collected statistic

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    To hundreds of millions of people sports act as way to escape reality, and connect to something greater themselves. Sports fan bases are many times the most passionate groups of people in the teams they support. Fans also drive the engine that fuels the business side of any major sporting league, as we constantly pour our dollars into the product they produce. And just like any other product, each league has many different brands, in the form of their teams; all of whom are competing against each

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    Sport has been renowned for being an important activity people ever practiced, starting with the organisation of the Olympic Games that held to elaborate basic sports skills, as well as celebrate them. Sport unites people and encourages them to enhance their organisation and community. People choose to launch their career in sports in order to remain healthy and earn good money. Professional sport, no matter where played, is the most affluent and observed sporting activity. It grabs the lions offer

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    fellow teammates and team doctors. Expanding from professional sports to minor league sports, including college and high school sports.The use of drugs isn’t as prevalent in the Midwest as it is to the East and West coast. The act to stop the drug process in sports isn’t very effective because the expansion of drugs and the simplicity of obtaining drugs common worldly trend not only for the younger crowd of society, but also, the older crowd. Sports teams and leagues enforce the band of any drug that

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