Violence in Sports
...professional leagues such as the National Basketball Association, Major League baseball, and the National Hockey League. In common life, when a person or group attacks another person or group they are usually charged with assault and battery but in the pros if a player or team attacks another they are just fined or are tagged with a suspension (Sagall 10). More and more bench clearing brawls and one on one fights are taking place like when Jo Jo English from the Chicago Bulls and Derek Harper from the New York Knicks got in a struggle that went in to the stands causing both teams to rush from the benches and breaking a woman's 300 dollar necklace (McCallum 26). In pro baseball, pitchers are sometimes hitting batter on purpose resulting in batter rushing the mound and whole teams fighting (Margolis 32). Hockey players, some of who have a rough reputation, are estimated to have 5,000 stitches a year. Although a major part of violence is seen on the court, field, or ice there is also violence that can be discovered off the field. Boxing which could be considered the most brutal sport, because its main intention is to inflict bodily harm, has seen 500 deaths since 1900 (Berger 60). A decent right handed punch, from a heavy weight boxer, could easily reach 10,000 pounds of force causing a loss of memory, destroying brain cells, and bursting blood vessels in the brain (Berger 60).One of boxing's former heavyweight champions, Mike Tyson, who becoming more famous for his actions out of the ring, went outside the rules and was disqualified twice for deliberately biting off pieces of Evander Holyfield's ear (Dretzka 1) After Duk Koo Kim died in a match with Ray Mincini in 1982 at Caesars Palace a total of at least thirty eight boxers have died ("Fight Death Rises..." 1). Also in a bout in 1995, Jimmy Garcia collapsed during the fight and despite having great medical assistance and a surgeon who got Garcia into a operating room in thirty five minuets, died because of brain damage ("Fight Death Rises... 1). Parents and co...