1st Half of Links on Articles Concerning Sports Violence

http://www.peace.ca/sports.htm

This site takes a stand against violence in sports and essentially blames it almost completely on kids being raised and pressured to win. Also, it lays some blame on the athletes who are role models for the children. The site even gives a list of ways to help children and prevent them from thinking that sports are solely about winning.

http://www.mala.bc.ca/~soules/media112/zine2000/moose/index.htm

I found this article by Jeremy Currie to present a different side. While he mentions the traditional scapegoats, his article focuses on the role of media and their effect on violence. The article is biased as it essentially blames the media, but he does manage to raise some interesting points.

http://shatteredpeace.com/violence_in_youth_sports.htm

This site consists of a study polling participants about the amount of violence they’ve seen in youth sports. It then lists dozens of incidents of violence that have occurred in youth violence. The sole purpose of the site seems to be to demonstrate the high level of violence now occurring in youth sports.

http://www.recmanagement.com/200301gc02.php

On this site, the article is by a recreational park manager. His viewpoint is biased and he links the violence in sports, especially youth sports on the idea that winning is everything. He follows by giving his own idea of how the problem can be curtailed and the steps that his league took.

http://media.www.michigandaily.com/media/storage/paper851/news/2004/09/28/Sports/Brian.Schick.Violence.Becoming.Epidemic.In.Sports-1425316.shtml

This article is by a University of Michigan professor who discusses the idea of violence in sports becoming an epidemic. He clearly thinks that professional sports are becoming overrun by violence and cites several examples while at one point even suggesting American teams build fences around the field of play to protect players from belligerent fans like in parts of Europe.

http://www.childdevelopmentinfo.com/health_safety/violence_kids_sports.shtml

This article was on the Child Development Institute’s website and was funded and some research was provided by the U.S. Department of Education. Researchers for this article blame the problem with the athlete’s coaches and families, rules and officials of the game, or attitudes of the media and society. It then goes on to offer its own solutions as well.

http://www.upenn.edu/pnc/ptlapchick.html

This article was by a Penn University professor. While his article is mainly opinion, it is does demonstrate some points with statistics. Some parts of the article can be skipped as well since he delves into personal narrative. However, his biggest point is the role of lack of education and the problems that it causes including violence in sports.

http://www.psychologyofsports.com/couch/couch010105.htm

This site provides a short insight into player violence by a psychologist. It takes a psychologist’s look at how player-fan violence occurs and suggests that psychology can be used to identify athletes at-risk for this behavior.

http://www.collegian.psu.edu/archive/1988/06/06-09-88tdc/06-09-88dsports-column-01.asp

This article appeared in Penn State’s student newspaper almost 20 years ago and was already blaming the violence on youth parents who took the game too seriously.

http://www.cbc.ca/sports/story/2001/10/18/sports-violence011018.html

I found this article to be very interesting. Based on the research of York University, a theory was proposed that violence in sports escalated during a period when the country was involved in war. The main idea is that a violent war leads to increased level of violence within society.