Human beings have several needs and requirement. Food, clothing and housing are, no doubt, the essential in life. For this, everyone has to find some occupation or work in order to make living. Apart from these, one needs some entertainment or recreation during free or spare hours. Some of these entertainments are called hobbies. Hobbies include sport. Sports mean games of a wide range like cricket, football, soccer, volley ball, hockey, badminton, tennis etc. but nowadays games are not only played for recreation but people are involving as professional and making their carrier in their respective games. We can see number of professional club which are supporting players to make their careers, like in soccer, cricket, baseball, hockey etc. sports have been always supporting to human life whether it be from healt perspective or financially.
The chief utility of sports lies in the fact that they keep a person in good bodily condition. A sportsman remains healthy all through. Sports build up one’s muscles and put one in tight trim and good physique. The usual ailments of the stomach or the throat, headache or minor fever remain quite away from sportsmen.
In addition, a sportsman learns team spirit which is some thing very essential for success later in life. Wherever and in whatever field or sphere one may work one cannot do everything by oneself. One has to work in company with other. There are many people in the world who remain odd and eccentric, irritated and ill-tempered and do not like to mix up with other for reason of temperament and tastes. A sportsman acquires the quality of team work very early, in the field, and remains a successful man in the sphere of work because he knows to keep others cheerful and in friendship, and to give work to, or get work from others.
Sports teach discipline too. A sportsman on the field has always to act under certain discipline- the discipline of the game. Besides, there is the referee to regulate, watch and check. This inculcates a sense of discipline in the sportsman. Owing to this one accustoms oneself to working under proper rules and regulation. One thus develops a disciplined mode of life not only in one’s sphere of work, but even in one’s domestic environments. Sports bring rich dividends to sportsmen. Whether it is the matter of getting admission to Arts College or engineering institution or of procuring jobs, sportsmen receive preference everywhere. Even for recruitment to coveted posts in the army, a sportsman is invariably preferred to a non-sportsman. At the school or the college also, a sportsman is respected well by teacher, lectures and friends around us. A sportsman brings honor to the institution when he wins a victory in a tough match.
Sports also bring fame and reputation. Many sportsmen often travel in teams to distant places just to play a match. When they are on the field they are cheered and applauded by crowds. Their names appear in the newspaper with flashy headlines and people are found discussing individual sportsman. Cricket and soccer sportsman are well known for this matter.
No doubts sports have plenty of uses to their credit, they also sometimes results in damages. Some sportsmen lose their limbs in the heat of games. In some cases legs get fractured, some become permanently disabled. Many students owing to an absorbing interest in sports ignore their lesson and remain poor in studies. Being some disadvantage sports popularity has never decreases.
