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violence in Sports Sports and Violence has been a way of life throughout human existence. Humans have been biding themselves, their emotions, and animals against one another for centuries. From the Roman gladiators to today’s modern sporting events, brutality is prevulat in the more popular sports of today, but are govern with rules and penalties to inforce those regulations. Sports can be divided into two categories contact, and noncontact. Sports such as football, hockey, wrestling, rugby and other contact sports are placed in the violent category. Noncontact sports such as baseball, basketball, horseracing, golf, and cycling are placed in the nonviolent category. Some sports considered noncontact have a tendency to be violent. Contact sports have degrees of violence and emotion in them. In a football game the degree of brutali