Assignment: Extra-Credit

The game is almost over

Your extra-credit assignment asks that you reflect upon a semester's worth of reading and writing about sports. What about the subject matter struck you as most interesting? What surprised you? Did you change your mind about any particular sport? Were any preconceived notions of yours changed or challenged? In a reflection-style response, consider the experience of studying various aspects of sports in an English composition class.

Required:

• MLA Style
• Must be exactly two-full pages in length

Worth up to 10 extra-credit pts.

Due: Friday, May 18th by noon via email

Sporting News 05.07.12

San Jose's newly out gymnast hopes to compete in London

• San Jose's Josh Dixon, Stanford gymnast and Olympic-hopeful, announces he's gay San Jose Mercury News
• The New York Mets honor The Beastie Boys' Adam Yauch Yahoo! Sports
  
• Murder at the Kentucky Derby USA Today
• Boy fights to stay on all-girls field hockey team, invokes Title IX Huffington Post
• Canadian host cities for the 2015 FIFA Women's World Cup announced Washington Times
• This is it: Michael Phelps to retire after London games CNN

Week 16: Lance Armstrong, Cycling

Between 199 and 2005, Armstrong won a record seven Tours de France

Mo 5.7
Class: Final exam prep; Lecture—“The Final Exam: Thesis Strategies”

We 5.9
Class: Final exam prep
Due: REFLECTION 8

Sa 5.12
FINAL EXAM: 8 AM, SH100—Bring: 1 large yellow book, pens, and a print dictionary. No electronic devices allowed during the exam.

Upcoming:

Week 17: Wayne Gretzky, Ice Hockey
Mo 5.14
Class: Course review