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Sports News Blog posts insightful comments on the latest international news that render us taken-aback in the domain of the sports facet of life. Sports News Blog: Sports-Violence News Sports Columnist Says Video Games Desensitize Us To Sports Violence: September 12, 2007
Buffalo Bills tight end Kevin Everett suffered a spinal injury during a game against the Denver Broncos on Sunday that left him paralyzed. While the nation sympathizes with Everett's plight and wishes him well, one sports writer took the injury as an opportunity to take a swipe at video games. Bob Molinaro of the Virginian-Pilot had this to say: This makes me wonder if the catastrophic injury to Buffalo Bills tight end Kevin Everett will make any real impression on the desensitized adolescents and adults raised with the cartoon violence of "Madden '08" or "NFL Blitz," or the absurd blood-and-guts scenarios associated with other Xbox games. Sports News Blog Comment: Why is it that violence sells so much whether it is sports violence, violence in entertainment, or violence in video games and cartoons? Is violence our basic nature like hunger and sex are? I think violence is a reaction against the suppression that we inflict on our basic nature, be it hunger (overeating suppresses hunger too!) or sex (over-sex suppresses sex too!) or any other basic drive for that matter. In my opinion, that is why we have designed our sports on the pattern of war! In fact, we have designed our entire life on the pattern of war - every single aspect of it! Can we decide to go natural again and say bye to violence for good? I invite you to subscribe to my E-zine titled Life Coach, free of charge. This E-zine publishes insightful comments on the latest international news that render us taken-aback in the domains of various facets of life. A not-to-be-missed opportunity! Subscribe to it here: I also invite you to subscribe to my Life Blog - no need to provide your e-mail address here. This RSS feed keeps you informed about new developments taking place on this site. It also harbors 25 journal bloglets posting insightful comments on the latest international news that render us taken-aback in the domains of various facets of life. In order to subscribe to the blog, right-click on the orange RSS button (see buttons up to the left) and then paste the URL into your RSS reader. Or click on add to My Yahoo! button or My MSN or Add To Google button if you keep a personalized home page there. If you are not sure what RSS or blogging is all about, click on What's an RSS Feed? here:
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