Sports and Violence has been a way of life throughout human existence. Humans have been biding themselves, their emotions, and animals against one another for centuries. From the Roman gladiators to today’s modern sporting events, brutality is prevulat in the more popular sports of today, but are govern with rules and penalties to inforce those regulations.

Sports can be divided into two categories contact, and noncontact. Sports such as football, hockey, wrestling, rugby and other contact sports are placed in the violent category. Noncontact sports such as baseball, basketball, horseracing, golf, and cycling are placed in the nonviolent category. Some sports considered noncontact have a tendency to be violent.

Contact sports have degrees of violence and emotion in them. In a football game the degree of brutali

Noncontact may be less violent, but steal maintain a level brutality. For example, during a horserace a horse may collide with another, fall down, or a jockey may be thrown during a race. Although this is not a common occurrence the possibilities still exists.

Basketball is also a noncontact, but at times players steal come into contact with one another. During the course of the game opponents set picks, slap each other on the arm or wrist, push one another in the back, and at time are knock down or thrown to the hard wood floor. Even though violence is kept to a minimal and players are not severely hurt, an individual or team may be penalized by being assessed a foul for touching each other.

Hockey with its more continuos play, holds a higher level of violence. Combatants constantly throw themselves at their opponent to knock them down to the ice or to pen them against the wall. Also contact with the use of the hockey sticks, the puck, and Fighting is common during a ga

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