NFL owners are demanding a number of outrageous wage-and-benefit concessions without justification. Here's just one example: the NFL wants to take ALL health care benefits from players and their families. An average football player will
Thus leaving American’s to become conspirious about the truths of war and ethics in the Federal Government. In my opinion the arguments made against the government’s way they misled the public were true and interesting. The government having not told Tillman’s family the truth up front I believe was a cowardly thing to do. The way the Bush administration portrayed him out to be a hero, in which I believe he was, he shouldn’t have been made out to be more heroic than any one of his fellow soldiers. Just because Tillman was a NFL football player shouldn’t have given him any more starlight than other soldier who also gave up their lives to fight for this country.
Roger Goodell Commissioner was concerned over the replacement and Scott Green, the president of the NFL Referees Association announced that a new contract was agreed on. The ref's sat out for 115 days. Tim Millis, the executive director of the NFLRA, told USA TODAY Sports that a deal had been reach, “very good” and that most of the discussion were question-and answer session on non-economics matters. So the official got a deal worth returning for, but will there officiating really change the game. The controversial “ Fail Mary” definitely had some impact in the game between Seattle Seahawks and Green bay Packer.
"I knew it was one-on-one so as long as Ify kept going it was going to be him and that guy and it was either going out of bounds or he was going to catch it," Fales said. It's unclear whether the Bears will keep three quarterbacks on their 53-man roster, a decision that's due by 3 p.m. Saturday when NFL teams are required to make final cuts. "It's never an easy time for any coach in the National Football League," said coach John Fox. "You've got guys who have really worked hard and sacrificed a lot of time and effort." Asked about the next 48 hours, Fales said: "Out of my control.
Many big name baseball players have also been implicated. “In 2007, Jason Giambi admitted to using steroids. That same year, Barry Bonds was convicted with charges of perjury and obstruction of justice for allegedly lying to a grand jury about knowingly using steroids,” stated Chris Woolston a Multiple Sclerosis expert. Ben Johnston lost ten to fifteen million dollars in endorsement contracts and suspended from international competition for two years. (Alvin, Virginia, Silverstein 65) There are many players abusing steroids, and most of these players lost awards and got kicked off or vanished off their teams for taking steroids.
I just wish I could die it hurts so much can you please help me.” I picked his head up and laid it on my lap and played with his hair until he fell asleep finally. He laid there crying in his sleep and moving around because he was in so much pain. I had thoughts going through my mind at that moment of going into the kitchen and giving him the whole bottle of pain medication to stop his pain once and for all. I called the hospice nurse into the room and begged her to help him and she said she couldn’t. My baby brother died an excruciating death at the age of 21on April 4, 2006 as he laid his head in my lap.
Most football players wont even realize when they have concussions. When a football player experiences a concussion they experience a temporary, trauma- induced an alteration in mental status (Tyler and Nelson 1). Also the player will hear a “bell-ringing” noise, which can cause lasting physical and mental injury, or even result in death (1). According to Tyler and Nelson, “Studies released by the American Academy of Neurology and the National Brain Injury Association indicate that 10% of college and 20% of high school football players receive brain injuries in any given season” (1). Many f these concussions are temporary, but if a player receives their first concussion are four times more likely to receive a second than someone who has never had one (1).
Giuliani plans to not only put this increase to an end, but calls for a dramatic decrease in this type of spending. To begin with he would like for all Congressional budgets to have a cost estimate before they are voted on which seems to be a very reasonable task to ask for. His plan seems to have a direction that cuts the cost of wasteful spending by our government making them more accountable for the monies they use by simply taking those actions similar to that of a large business. Part of this transaction calls for an enormous cut in the Federal Civilian Work force by over twenty percent. At first glance I was appalled at this, thinking of the hundreds of thousands of Americans that would be put out of work.
Mr. Cogan also states that in 2008 an estimated 30 percent of soldiers took their own lives while on deployment and that another 35 percent committed suicide after returning home. Mr. Cogan will also go on to say that the Veterans Affairs (VA) has only treated around 400,000 of the 1.7 million men and women who have served and that the numbers might be far worse than the VA actually knows about.
Some of those reasons being the crime rates, the costs of what could happen, and injuries. Firearm injuries have killed more than 28,000 Americans each year since 1972 (Ruben). In 2007, thirty-one thousand two hundred twenty four Americans died due to homicides, suicides, and accidental shootings. Accidental shootings happen quite often. In 2007, around seventy thousand Americans were hospitalized due to accidental shootings.