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I’ve been meaning to write this post for a while now, to pay tribute to Kevin Garnett, inarguably one of the best players of his generation.

Let’s say you had to describe Kevin Garnett to someone who had never before watched a basketball game, yet laid eyes on him for the first time. What words would you use? Would cheap air max shoes
frightening be one of them? Intense? Driven? One-of-a-kind? All of those would be appropriate since after all, Garnett helped redefine the modern game in a number of ways. He was one of the first of this generation to come straight out of high school, make an impact, in a small market and warrant big money, Garnett money.
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Was he a center? Certainly not. At 6’11”, he was tall enough but he couldn’t have weighed more than a buck-eighty five. Was he a power forward? Again, too frail. Was he a small forward? Nah, too tall. So what was he, other than a freak of nature?

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Seventeen years later, Garnett is still a freak of nature and proud of it. In Boston’s last playoff series, Atlanta Hawks co-owner, Michael Gearon, Jr., who nobody outside of Atlanta had heard of before his ill-advised comments, called Garnett a “dirty player.” Wrong thing to do. Garnett responded with 28 points, 14 rebounds and five blocks. He later publicly thanked Air max 2011
Gearon for inspiring him. Remember that scene from Teen Wolf where Michael J. Fox’s father growls at the principal, causing him to instantly soil himself? Exactly. Garnett, the werewolf.

While it’s impossible to pinpoint one specificnike air max store
thing and cite that as the reason that girls are experiencing so much head trauma in soccer, clearly heading (the act of hitting the ball with one’s head) doesn’t help matters. Per NBC Sports:
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Other studies have also found that excessive heading in soccer can cause brain damage. It’s estimated that the typical adult amateur player heads the ball between 1,000 and 1,500 times a year.

In hopes of shining some additional light on the biggest health issue facing young athletes that nobody seems to want to talk about, Rock Center has put together a special episode on air max 2009
the topic. Via NBC:

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While it’s great that we’re finally addressing the health of young athletes in full, answering the question of where we go from here is no easier when you’re talking about girls soccer than it cheap air max
is when you’re talking about men’s football. Much in the same way that football can’t just take out the violent parts of the game, soccer seemingly can’t just outlaw heading when it’s an accepted part of the experience. Or can they? Is soccer without heading still soccer? And if we alter the heading aspect of soccer, can we do the same with other risky elements of different sports? And who decides what’s officially deemed risky?
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The last year has been one for acknowledging that there are problems with our sports, reviewing those problems, and understanding that changes need to be made. This next year will be much tougher. This will be the year where we need to find actual solutions to the problems.

And with kids’ lives on the line here, the lackadaisical way of dealing with things that’s Air max 2011
become commonplace in our society when it comes to everything else really isn’t an option.

(Kudos Yahoo! Sports, NBC Sports, NBC)