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Here are some statistics from the National Coalition Against Violent Athletes on its website at ncava.org: A three-year study showed that while male student-athletes make up 3% of the population on college campuses, they account for 20% of sexual assaults and 35% of domestic assaults on college campuses. [7]
Latest CDC report on teen behavior in the U.S. finds an 'overwhelming wave of violence and trauma' at never-before-seen levels of hopelessness and suicidal thoughts in high school students.
October 11 – At the end of a college football game between the Nebraska Cornhuskers and the Missouri Tigers in Columbia, Missouri, celebrating Missouri fans invaded the field, and Nebraska cornerback Kellen Huston punched a Missouri fan, Matthew Scott, in the face, knocking Scott unconscious and leaving him having to be carried from the field ...
Violence in sports usually refers to violent and often unnecessarily harmful intentional physical acts committed during, or motivated by, a sports game, often in relation to contact sports such as American football, ice hockey, rugby football, lacrosse, association football, boxing, mixed martial arts, wrestling, and water polo and, when referring to the players themselves, often involving ...
Intimate partner violence is the number one cause of serious injury or death of women ages 18 to 24 in America, according to a 2018 statement released by the American College of Surgeons, and ...
A college football player with a history of sexual assault raped a 17-year-old girl aboard a Carnival Cruise ship as she was celebrating the holidays with her family — before heartlessly asking ...
Most leagues in the United States, such as the Women's Football Alliance, play by rules similar to men's tackle football. [1] Although women's flag football is emerging as a collegiate sport, [2] women playing gridiron football at the college level have historically joined men's teams, often (though not exclusively) as placekickers. [3]
No doubt football is suffused with gladiatorial bravado, and it takes heat for its role in the larger culture of violence. But sports — even contact sports — are part of the solution, not the ...