Sports

Drugs IN Sports versus Entertainment AND Sports

Is it more about the competition, or the fun of it?

Is it more about the entertainment, or the drive to be the best?

Is it for the fans hoping for victory, or is it for the players striving for…

Long Criticism Idea: Drugs in Sports

“Take Your Pills” is a documentary that just came out on Netflix about Adderall. However, I want to look at the history of drugs in sports with both Adderall and opiates. Why athletes use them? When do they generally start using them? What are the repercussions for…

There is No I in Team: Sports from a Not So Sporty Person

The idea of sports, whether they were on the TV, or just playing a good old classic game of football, overall, just the concept of sports, in general, has always been foreign, and I have ever had a somewhat dysfunctional…

Fish Out of Water

For my Fish Out of Water assignment, I was possibly thinking of either attending one of the intramural sports events up on campus. I think this would be interesting to learn about because I am not a very sports oriented type of person, because even from being a child and being raised in a family…

Small Town Influence

My whole purpose of this interview was to try and get a better understanding in young women’s sport culture in Durango and if it has been growing through the influence through the FLC women’s teams, more specifically the FLC women’s basketball team. So for this I interviewed one of the…

Interview with AJ Haskell: A Skyhawk Athlete

I’m speaking to AJ Haskell, a Freshman at Fort Lewis College from Parker, Colorado. AJ is a part of the Skyhawk men’s soccer team here at Fort Lewis.

Isolated Athletes

Fort Lewis College is home to 13 men’s and women’s athletic teams that compete in the Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference. Each team engages in intensive fitness, weight training, and sport-specific practices year round in order to perform at their top level in competition. As a volleyball player…