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If you play injured, you will die

I talked to Buffalo High School’s Physical Trainer Kris Savaloja and she said, ‘If I want to keep playing and not worry about what will happen to my body, that I will ruin my injured, no matter what. I play while I’m hurt because I am an ignorant player. I am a soccer player that will play with a bruised foot because I don’t want to stop playing. I am not saying that it is good for me to play body. Everyone that comes in and is hurt and needs to see Kris needs to make sure they are healthy before they get back on the field’.

I also talked to Buffalo’s Varsity Head Coach Nick Guida and he said that him, himself didn’t suffer from injuries up until his sophomore year in college he started having back spasms. He stopped playing once this started and it saved his back from getting torn apart.

He stopped playing which led him to staying healthy. If you play with an injury you will still stay injured. I bruised the bridge of my right foot during my junior soccer season. I practiced a few times with it before it hurt so much I had to see Kris. I stayed off of it for about two weeks, when I came back onto the field it was a little sore but it healed and didn’t get worse because I took time off of it.

If you play with an injury, you will get hurt even more. All the information that Alex McDonald informed me with is true. He tells an example that occurs with athletes in every sport. He doesn’t just tell you that it is going to get worse because he said so. He explains step by step how it will get worse. If you look deep enough into your injury, or ask professionals about your injury, they will tell you how it gets worse step by step.

Pay attention to your body and listen to it. Because when you get hurt in the early season and you keep playing because you don’t want to abandon your team, sure you’ll play in the games that don’t mean anything. Later you’ll be too injured to playing in the games that matter like sections and state. Yeah, better your team then when it matters.

The topic for story is based on how athletes at BHS cope with being hurt.
So the main question I want to answer is the topic. How do athletes cope with being hurt. Not being able to perform to the best of their ability. So far, for my research, I have interviewed four athletes that suffer from injuries. I want to get from them is to see their perspective or to see their frustration on not being able to perform at 100% I thought one of the best people I could have interviewed was Chris, BHS’s trainer. She has a first hand look through medical eyes on athletes from Buffalo that are injured. She had some good things to say. She talks about how some athletes are sometimes so injured that they are going to have to sit out or just take it easy for a while, while their minds are running back and fourth wanting to be on the court or on the mat performing. Though some kids want to be out there, she has a authority to keep them off the field to become healthy again. I also talked to Coach Guida, the basketball coach for the boys basketball. Guida explained to me that he has had some boys on the team fight injuries. Some boys of which are the best he has seen come through Buffalo. He explained that when boys are hurt, it is a good time for Guida to teach them how to be just as important off the court as it is on the court. This was really cool to me because I had never thought about that in that way. Trying to explain to the boys that ruining your body by playing in high school games is not worth it. Guida told me that he knows from experience.
The angle I want to explore in my story and relate it to Buffalo, is by figuring out from different athletes in different sports, how they cope with it. Being that they sit out, ice, stretch or just plain ignore the pain and play through it.
This is a small article on kind of what I’m talking about. Sorta.. ha

Is deception okay to use for Journalism?
I am a little torn between yes and no. I am thinking yes because I think about  the “bait car” example. They (police) deceive the crooks in order to catch them. Even though they deceive them and trick them to get the story or expose the people, they do this for the good because then the crooks will be in jail instead of stealing more cars. Also another kind of deception for the good is putting down lies on your job resume in order for yourself to look a lot better than you actually are. If I were to put that I am the best worker ever on my resume when really, I am not. I would have deceived the business into giving me a job. That would be a bad thing of deception. The reason I don’t think it is okay of the example of a soccer player in a game to get hit by another player and dive, causing a penalty kick to win the soccer game. The player that dove deceived the ref by not playing honestly. Good for the player that received the kick but no good for the other team.
NBC’s To Catch A Predator is also a big example of deception. The crew of NBC deceives the predators by telling them they are a little teenage girl or boy. What they don’t tell the predators is that they are in fact not a teenage boy or girl. Instead part of the police department. This lets the P.D. to catch the person and put them in jail.
Really what goes through my head is that there is an invisible line that you can’t cross by using deception. If using deception, it must better the public and the world around you if you are to use it. Like in the bait car or to catch a predator, they get the crooks off the streets and in jail. Those of which could hurt other people. In the soccer example, it affects the outcome of the soccer game but not necessarily people’s health. As long as a lie doesn’t occur, it all really should be good depending on if someone is not getting hurt in the end or a lot of people getting hurt.
Joe O’Flanagan

- Hello, my name is Joe O’Flanagan and this is my post.
Some things that I have learned throughout the presentations on Law are a lot about the things you can and cannot do. For example, learning about Libel. Libel is publishing a false statement about someone that hurts their reputation or defames them in anyway. Learning about this thing in general let me know that I cannot just publish everything or anything without possibly getting in trouble. Knowing that there are unwritten laws pretty much while being a journalist.
I’d say the coolest thing I learned from taking notes on the Laws is that most people go to court for suing for Libel to regain their reputation rather than to sue them for money. Although a lot of people sue for money because it is just en extra wad of cash in their wallet. When writing about people, you have to know if they are a public figure or not in order to say what you want. Yes we have the freedom of speech but also we don’t have the right to cut anyone we want down. like I said earlier, there are “unwritten laws.” Some limitations also are for instance if you didn’t like someone, you cannot just write a story talking smack about them just because you don’t like them. I personally think the limitations are a good thing because otherwise some kid could watch me for two months and write a story on every bad thing I did during that time, write this story without my approval. I think people should know their boundaries and not cross them. Pertaining to High school, like I said, I wouldn’t want someone writing a story on all the bad stuff so I think the “rules” for media are the same for high school. God bless America.