Dear Lebron James the reason i'm writing to you because you are my inspiration and i like the way you say to all of your haters are things like i'm the best player in the world and nobody can change that. The real reason i’m saying this is because that you are truly my favorite player in the Nba and i respect you as an Athlete and a person. The only reason why people hate on you is because people just hate on athletes just because they are people in a sport that they can't play or they don't like Players attitudes towards the team or other players. See this is why i like you as an athlete you don't really care for anybodys opinion on anything or anyone that's like my attitude towards people at this school i don't really care for anybody except friends and family just like you. I Just...
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Dear Damian Lillard,
This letter is from a really big fan who witness you drop 51 ppg against the kings of the regular season… the golden state warriors last year. I witnessed your elusive first career triple-double against the utah jazz with 21 points, 10 assists and 7 rebounds. I was distraught when you didn’t even make the all-star team
You’re so underrated its not even funny. You won rookie of the year in the 2012-2013 season. You’re the player to participate in every all-star weekend event in history. Even though you didn’t win any of them, you’re the only player in nba history to do that!!! You averaged 25.1 ppg, 6.8 apg, and 4.0 rpg in the 2015-2016 season. 21.4 ppg, 6.3 apg, 3.3 rpg career wise. You’re one of the top players scoring wise in the nba. You even got the...
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Dear, Derrick Rose
I remember growing up hearing “Derrick Rose is going to be great” and “Derrick Rose is the next big thing.” I remember all my friends wanting to shoot threes and all I wanted to drive into the lane and lay it up because that's what you did. I pictured stepping on that Chicago Bulls floor playing alongside you. Assisting you all game long, then hitting a buzzer beater three to win the game. It’s been eight years since you were drafted and I still see how you influenced my game. Though even if it was prioritising watching you play it would be hard because of all your injuries. But those injuries weren't your fault, you were just a victim to the sad fact that a few injuries can tear apart a sports career no matter how good you are.
I remember when I found out you...
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Dear Kevin Durant
Congratulations, you have made the weakest move by any NBA allstar ever. During free agency you decided to sign with the Golden State Warriors. You decided to choose Oakland over Boston and many other teams just throwing their money at you. Not only was this the team that smacked you upside your oddly shaped head but this is a team that went 73-9 that's the best record any team has ever had in NBA history! They didn’t even need you, how did they even have the money to afford your contract?! You could have stayed in Oklahoma and won a ring, don’t even act like the Thunder wasn’t a title contending team. Yeah the thunder traded your starting power forward but you got a young promising shooting guard (Victor Oladipo) in return. You had Steven Adams, Enes Kanter, Russell...
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Dear Parents of Young Football Players,
We need to be vigilant in all aspects of our children’s lives, including sports. I had no problem when my eight year old wanted to play football, assuming that our local Junior Peewees would provide him with a gradual introduction to the sport. Was I wrong! The first practice consisted of a warm-up jog around the field followed by full contact drills, during which coaches yelled “Shake it off” at kids who didn’t get up immediately. I witnessed one player bring his fist up under a team-mate’s face guard, which caused the victim’s neck to snap back and sent him to the ground flat on his back. The coaches didn’t seem phased. I was horrified. Because the coaching was unsystematic and disregarded safety I had my son choose an alternative sport. I’m...
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Dear Mr. Manning,
My name is Jessica Epperson. I'm a long-time fan and recently new mother. And I just want to say thank you. Thank you for not only being an outstanding football player, but for being an outstanding person. Thank you for being the kind of person I could look up to, respect and root for everyday for the paat decade of my life.
You have no idea how much you impacted my life. I have been a fan since I was about 12 years old and have rooted for you ever since. I rooted for you as a Colt six years ago when I was 15 and in the hospital having my third open heart surgery. I remember you playing and winning on Halloween that year while I was watching from my hospital bed. I rooted for you every week and wore my Manning jersey to school every week also. I rooted for...
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Let's get one thing straight. you've pulled yourself into a deep pile of controversy. About the National Anthem. And I support your stance. As a Peruvian, I feel like every white person feels like they are the dominance of this country. I've gone through racist quips about visas, papers, and the American border, and the only people who have made said regards are white. One person ,in particular, is the most patriotic person I know, and he makes more Hispanic jokes than anyone I've ever known. I will fight for the country's acceptance of all colors. And for your honor.
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South African football is one sport that is admired, loved, and worshipped by many, one might say predominantly loved by people of colour.
And as a result, millions and millions of rands have been pumped into this sport that we all dearly love. But, it begs a question, are we really doing justice by pumping millions of rands into a sport that has not achieved continental success? Let alone international success?
Sure, the Men's Senior National team, affectionately known as Bafana Bafana have won the Africa Cup of Nations in 1996 on home soil, and it remains the only trophy we have to show for it. Mind you that is two decades ago.
In that time, South Africa have won the Rugby World Cup twice, Caster Semenya has won at the Olympics, Wayne van Niekerk has broken a long-standing...
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Mr. Thomas Bach
President of the International Olympic Committee
Dear Mr. Bach
My name is Stephanie Olivia Duval and I am from Seychelles, an archipelago of a little of over a 100 small islands with a population of less than 100,000. Seychelles has been participating in the Summer Olympic Games since 1980. Our athletes have never won any medals but we are a nation that loves sports and our nations dream is to see one of our athlete one day stand on the podium at the Olympic Games.
I have been watching the Olympic Games on TV for as long as I can possibly remember and I am passionate about sports and the Olympics.
I write to you to express my sentiments about how the Olympic Games are aired by the media.
Being someone that has worked with our local athletes, where I have...
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Who am I, and who have I been?
I have been the little girl playing tee ball that dreams about playing on the “big girls team”. I have been the “big girl” playing fast pitch, and at times watched as crazy parents yelled at umpires and coaches. I have been the little league coach and umpire being yelled at by the crazy parents. I have been a lost college student, only to find a new love of slow pitch softball to keep me sane.
I have been a fan, player, coach, a field supervisor and someone who used to love softball…
I am…
I am a wife. I am an aunt. I am a college student. I am a business owner. I am a future Mother. I was, what I USED to dream of, a softball player…
I am a bystander seeing a little girl watch her Dad, Mom, Grandma, Grandpa, Sister, Brother, Aunt, Uncle or all...
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