Sports machismo may be cue to male teen violence

Eureka Alert ^ | 23-Jan-2008 | Amitabh Avasthi

[forkinsocket]

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[BenLurkin]

I think they have confused the egg with the chicken.

[IronJack]

Uh huh. It seems to me that basketball players are the ones most often in trouble with the law, OJ Simpson notwithstanding.

[Puppage]

It’s always something or someones fault, other than the little darlings.

[Tax-chick]

Just what I was thinking: Young male aggressiveness fuels sports.

There seems to be some circularity, though.

[L98Fiero]

Ahh, more “correlation is causation” science.

I’d say it had more to do with female attention than the sports themselves.

[Dahoser]

So there’s no fighting at all associated with basketball? Right. And when was the last time high school and college wrestlers got in the type of trouble that football and basketball players regularly do?

[Colonel Kangaroo]

Uh huh. It seems to me that basketball players are the ones most often in trouble with the law, OJ Simpson notwithstanding.

I'm not sure about that. I'd say for violent crimes, NFL is tops with NBA and baseball battling for second.

[ladyjane]

You’re right. Actually it may be a good thing that these overly aggressive guys have an outlet for their violence. Without sports they might take out their aggression in non-athletic, criminal pursuits.

[Spok]

More politically correct ‘science’. Wrestling and football have been around for decades; the study doesn’t appear to have taken into account touchy/feely self esteem indoctrination, video games, drugs, universal Narcissism, children being raised by strangers in daycares, a complete disdain for morality, and total rejection of character. All irrelevant, I’m sure.

[mylife]

I don’t know what malarkey is, but what ever it is, This article is a whole pile of it

[ecomcon]

“The team sports, basketball and baseball, on the other hand, do not lead to fights.”

Since when is football not a team sport?

[catpuppy]

A compromise solution, Kreager adds, is to break the cycle of aggression.

Wonderful idea! First let's outlaw violent games such as dodgeball, then ban score keeping so as to not make the losers feel inferior, then pump those who misbehave full of ritalin, then do away with recess, then feminize the boys and make the girls masculine, then wonder why our neutered children are so lost ....

[steve8714]

Self-esteem obsession fuels illiteracy and teen pregnancy.

[Tax-chick]

Or the other way around :-).

[NonValueAdded]

eggsactly!

[Don Corleone]

according to a Penn State study.

Not done by Joe Paterno of course./sarc

[Sir Francis Dashwood]

HOCKEY!

[Lakeshark]

This from another, no doubt unbiased, study funded by our dollars to the Universities.

Penn State has a fine football and wrestling program. They should throw the professorial twit out that led this stoopid study.

Or make him go to practice with each team in succession after lecturing them.........

[Sir Francis Dashwood]

“The team sports, basketball and baseball, on the other hand, do not lead to fights.”

That is not what I used to play hockey for!