Reflection

    At first, when the blog assignments was first given to us, it seemed like a daunting task. Choosing a topic and basically writing a paper on it each and every week of the semester seemed near impossible and torturous. First came the agonizing step, which it really was agonizing, of choosing what to write about. There was almost nothing that would seem to keep me interested for an entire semester. I really didn’t decide until the day that our first blog was due, on that day I chose to write about sports. My decision to choose sports is very telling, when all else fails I can always talk about sports.
    Through out the whole blog process, I have not learned much that I hadn’t already read. About the only time I read is if it has to do with sports, like Sports Illustrated, or ESPN.  The main thing I have learned through out this process is little statistics about certain issues. Such as; 3,114,091 girls and 4,422,662 boys participating in high school sports in  2008-09 (NFHS.org). 3 to 6 percent of high school students have at least tried Anabolic Steroids (New York Times). Also through deep research I have gained a better knowledge on Title IX and the effects it had upon colleges. I also learned that Title IX was part of an overall bill the made it illegal to discriminate based on a persons sex. I feel like I have a very good grip on the sports aspect, because of prior background knowledge and through research for this blog.
    Since sports is such a general topic there are many more ways I can take this blog. There is not much at the moment that I have a thirst to figure out. A real inspiration for the topics that are covered in this blog come from current event in the sports world. When one really strikes an interest I write about it, like the concussion issue, and the Title IX issue. One issue that elicits strong opinoins from everyone is the aspect of private schools dominating the Western Slope 3a sports teams. This is an issue that I will wrtie about before semesters end. I am also going to try and stay away from blatant topics that are can not cause debate. All in all I am glad I chose the topic I did. It has helped tremendously.