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12 Professional Athletes Who Changed Their Careers to Become Successful Politicians

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12 Professional Athletes Who Changed Their Careers to Become Successful Politicians 
We have prepared a list of world-famous athletes who busted the stereotype that sportsmen were not the brightest bulbs in the chandelier and could only use their body and skills to be successful. This dozen of political figures were once athletes. However, they managed to change their careers and save their status of high achievers. Let us see how the two different worlds of sports and politics can cross paths and what can come of it.
 Kevin Johnson

Kevin Johnson

Today, Kevin Johnson is a Mayor of Sacramento, the capital city of the U.S. state of California. He was elected in 2008 and became the first African-American to hold this position. Once, Kevin Johnson was a professional basketball player in the NBA, being a three-time NBA All-Star and a record-holder. However, the basketballer was highly concerned about the issues of homelessness and gang violence and decided to take control over them and run for the position of the Mayor. Being a B.A. in Political Science, Johnson launched nine important initiatives only in his first term.

Jon Runyan

Jon Runyan

Now-U.S. Congressman, Jon Runyan, was elected for the position in 2010. However, not many folks know that he is a former professional athlete. Runyan is known for being the Philadelphia Eagles’ offensive tackle and an NFC champion. Today, the professional sportsman is the U.S. Representative from New Jersey’s 3rd District. He is a Republican who cast his vote for the offshore oil drilling and Patriot Act.
 Arnold Schwarzenegger

Arnold Schwarzenegger

It is hard to find a person who does not know the world-famous bodybuilder Arnold Schwarzenegger. The former Mr. Universe and Mr. Olympia is also in trend due to his acting career. In 2003, Schwarzenegger was elected as the Governor of California and held the position until 2011. While for Arnold Schwarzenegger politics turned out to be not his most famous occupation, the former sportsman passed the nation’s first greenhouse emissions cap.
Tom Osborne

Tom Osborne

A famous football player, Tom Osborne, received various awards during his sports career and was a successful coach. However, the former wide receiver decided to try his hand in politics, and in 1995, he was elected as the U.S. Representative from Nebraska’s 3rd District. He held this position for eight years. However, he had only one of his bills become a law.
 Steve Largent

Steve Largent

Steve Largent is a popular football player, whose career stood out because of particular praise. He was called the best Seattle Seahawks player of all times and is the one to hold six major receiving records. In 1994, Largent was elected as the U.S. Representative from Oklahoma 1st District. His political career ended in 2002, supposedly, due to his answer to a tricky question where he was on 9/11.
 Dave Bing

Dave Bing

Today, Dave Bing is a Mayor of Detroit, Michigan. However, back in the 70s, he was the best basketball player of Detroit Pistons. Being a seven-time All-Star guard in the NBA, Bing is in the list of the NBA’s 50 Greatest Players. The next Bing challenge was to succeed in his political career. In 2009, he was elected for his position, however, during his term, Detroit was named to be the largest city in U.S. history to declare bankruptcy.
 Jack Kemp

Jack Kemp

Jack Kemp was a famous professional football player. In 1971, after substantial volunteer work, he was elected U.S. Congressman of New York 39th district. Jack Kemp passed away in 2009, never establishing the Jack F. Kemp Institute of Political Economy at Pepperdine University. After the sportsman’s death, his son, James Kemp, created the Jack Kemp Foundation that is located in Washington D.C.
 Bill Bradley

Bill Bradley

Bill Bradley is a famous American basketball player who won the world championships with the New York Knicks twice. He also won a gold medal as a member of the Olympic basketball team and was the 1965 NCAA Player of the Year. His person was insomuch legendary that in 2014, Harry Webber made a bronze statue of Bill Bradley and erected it at Princeton University. Back in 1979, Bradley, being a tax and economy expert, was elected U.S. Senator and held this position until 1997. In 2000, he decided even to run for presidency but failed to win.
 J.C. Watts

J.C. Watts

Julius Caesar Watts is the most popular politician from Oklahoma. He was the first Republican African-American congressman to be elected to statewide office in Oklahoma and held the position of the U.S. Representative from the Oklahoma’s 4th district, obtained in 1995, for eight years. J.C. Watts was even called the fourth most powerful Republican in the list of the House politicians. However, before starting the career of a politician, Watts was a famous quarterback of Ottawa Rough Riders and Toronto Argonauts.
Jim Bunning

Jim Bunning

Jim Bunning is a former Major League baseball pitcher who also decided to switch his career to politics. He was named All-Star nine times and pitched a perfect game in 1964. Bunning was into politics back in the late 70s, serving two years in the city council of Fort Thomas, Kentucky. Then, the famous sportsman was elected U.S. Representative from Kentucky’s 4th district. In 1999, he joined the U.S. Senate and was ranked by National Journal as the second-most conservative U.S. Senator  after Jim DeMint.

Heath Shuler

Heath Shuler

Heath Shuler is a former NFL quarterback. However, his professional career as a footballer was not very successful. He was even ranked the 17th biggest “sports flop” and the 4th biggest NFL Draft bust. Back in 2007, he was elected U.S. Representative from the North Carolina’s 11th district. He is remembered for being a tough opponent who fought against same-sex marriages, abortion rights, and gun control. Heath Shuler became a remarkable politician.

Lynn Swann

Lynn Swann

Lynn Swann is a former wide receiver who played for Pittsburgh Steelers for eight years and won a lot of awards for his great sporting performance. He is a four-time Super Bowl champion and Walter Camp Man of the Year. In 2002, Lynn Swann was appointed Chairman of the American President’s Council on Physical Fitness and Sports. In 2006, he decided to run for the position of Governor, but then officially removed his candidacy.

Athletes Who Won Battle Against Cancer

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Athletes Who Won Battle Against CancerThe athletes are believed to have more strength than ordinary people, but the truth is that many of them are not as healthy as they seem to be. They have to deal with numerous injuries, traumas, and professional diseases. And they definitely have no immunity to cancer. Still, they fight against it and show other people that you should never give up. SportDailyTimes will tell you about the athletes who managed to beat cancer and found the strength to move on.

Shannon Miller

The 7-time Olympic medalist, a mother, a wife—it is just a few things you can say about Shannon Miller. But the most important thing is that she is a brave woman who survived one of the rarest and most dangerous types of cancer.
About six years ago, Ms. Miller was diagnosed with germ cell ovarian cancer. For some time, the athlete kept this news in secret, until February 2011, when Shannon revealed her diagnosis and told the media about a surgery that took place a month before the event. She had a baseball-sized cyst in one of her ovaries. After the surgery, Ms. Miller had three full cycles of chemotherapy. Only in September 2011, the doctors confirmed that she has a steady remission, and her bill of health was completely clean.
In one of her interviews, Shannon Miller said that at the time when she was fighting against the disease, she tried to act in the same way she acted when she was preparing for the next tournament. Today, she continues to fight against cancer, helping those people who want to survive and live a healthy life again.
On her website, Ms. Miller tells about all the upcoming events and most interesting news. She also gives tips to women on how to prevent or to beat ovarian cancer and live a better, healthier life.
Two years ago, Shannon Miller even joined the Cycle for Survival event, organized by the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. She inspired people not to stop in their battle and keep moving both in their lives and the unusual marathon started by the MSKCC. For more details, watch the video below.

Mario Lemieux

Mario Lemieux is a world famous ice hockey player who once won the Olympic Games. In 1993, Mr. Lemieux was diagnosed with Hodgkin’s disease—a rare type of lymphoma. After almost a month of radiation therapy, the disease has receded, so today, the hockey player is cancer-free.
Just like many of his colleagues, Mario Lemieux tries to help other people win their battles against the dangerous disease. The same year he found out he had cancer, Lemieux founded the Mario Lemieux Foundation to raise money for new cancer research.
Last year, the organization also helped Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh Foundation.

Edna Campbell

Edna Campbell is one of the most famous women in American basketball. Her team won two gold medals and one silver medal in the biggest women’s basketball competitions. In 2002, she was diagnosed with breast cancer—the most common yet still intractable disease that is also one of the two most common causes of death among the patients with cancer. According to theofficial statistics, the disease took away lives of more than 41,000 women and 405 men only in 2012.
Edna Campbell was lucky enough to survive breast cancer. She retired fromthe WNBA and became the cancer patients’ advocate. She also launched a health restoration program Breathe and Stretch, called to help women with breast cancer live a healthier life.

Scott Hamilton

Just like Shannon Miller, Scott Hamilton is an Olympic champion and a cancer survivor. In 1997, the world famous figure skater was diagnosed with testicular cancer. This kind of cancer is not very common—according to the Cancer.org statistics, only 1 of every 263 males in the U.S. has a risk of developing testicular cancer.
When his diagnosis was confirmed, Mr. Hamilton had to go trough a surgery and a few courses of the chemotherapy. In contrast to the celebrities who do not talk about their disease and try to hide it as long as they can, the Olympian medalist talks about the problem of cancer very often.
Scott Hamilton did not just won the battle against the dangerous disease. A year after his cancer surgery, he came back on the ice and continued to skate professionally. Moreover, trying to support those who are fighting their battle against cancer, Mr. Hamilton founded the Scott Hamilton CARES Initiative. This organization raises money for new cancer research, supports patients with cancer and their families, tells people how to help those who need that help the most.
The history of Scott Hamilton looks even more incredible considering the fact that the Olympic figure skater lost his mother to cancer when he was 18. This man knows exactly how to keep fighting even when you feel like you have no strength left. He shared some of his secrets with people last year at the TEDxKC event.Peter Kostis

Peter Kostis

Peter Kostis is not exactly an athlete. He does not play professional sports, he is not the main player of any on the national teams, he never was a part of the Olympics as well. Still, he is a huge part of the world of professional golf, because he is one of the brightest and the most famous golf analysts and instructors. He instructed some very talented and famous golfers, including Paul Casey and Bernhard Langer.
In 2013, Mr. Kostis was diagnosed with colon cancer. He and his wife Sandy used to have colonoscopies every five years since each of them turned 50. It was a very wise move, by the way, that has actually saved the man. Because when it comes to cancer, the earlier you are diagnosed, the higher chances you have to survive.
Today, Mr. Kostis remains cancer-free and does all in his power to help other people beat cancer.

The English Institute of Sport Works on Retirement Rehabilitation Programs

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The English Institute of Sport Works on Retirement Rehabilitation ProgramsThe English Institute of Sport Works on Retirement Rehabilitation Programs

What do you assume to be an athlete’s greatest challenge: going to the Olympics, winning a medal (of any kind), or winning a gold medal? These may be dreams or goals, but a lifetime challenge for each athlete is retirement. It is almost a taboo subject among professional sportsmen, yet it is inevitable. The English Institute of Sport, together with the psychologists connected to the field, gathered information about what happens to an athlete when he or she stops doing sports professionally. And here are the most important parts of the published articles.
The first problem is the craving for competition. Professional athletes start training at about 13 (in some specific sport, such as rhythmic gymnastics, the entering age can be 3-5 years old) and continue competing for 15-20 years of their lives. This makes professional athletes real adrenalin addicts. And in regular life, it is hard to achieve the same level of tension as during a tough competition when the whole world is watching you.
Secondly, professional sports has a ruining impact on both your body and mind. Given that only 3 out of 4 athletes who earned medals at the Olympics earn enough to never work after retirement, the prospects look obscure for those who never made it to the Olympics. A retired athlete has to find a job. But they are trained to do nothing but sports, have no experience and a highly traumatized body. Besides, retired athletes suffer from a rather severe depression, which also makes finding a job difficult.
And the last problem that athletes face makes it even worse. Due to the depression and the feeling of uselessness, many people unintentionally put their most valuable relations under severe strain. This means even less sympathy and comforting from significant others, which inevitably leads to a deeper depression. Hopefully, The English Institute of Sport has identified the problem of athletes’ retirement as one of the biggest global sports problems. The Institute is actively working on programs of psychological rehabilitation and social integration for retired sportsmen.

Marijuana Versus Painkillers: NFL Players Have Right to Choose

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Marijuana Versus Painkillers: NFL Players Have Right to ChooseMarijuana Versus Painkillers: NFL Players Have Right to Choose

Former football players demand that the NFL reconsider the league’s current policy on marijuana and take part in a study that may prove medical cannabis is beneficial for players. SportDailyTimes will provide you with the most significant reasons behind that demand.
It is not a secret that American football is quite a tough game. There are tons of various traumas and injuries in the lives of most of the professional football players. So, in order to stay on the field, they are literally forced to use a combination of strong painkillers with dozens of side effects. Passion for the game costs them their health and well-being while there may be a possibility to keep playing without harming both their minds and bodies.
Medical marijuana may help football players deal with injuries and illnesses caused by traumas they received on the field. Medical cannabis is believed to be an efficient yet more safe alternative to prescription painkillers. We have 23 states with legalized medical cannabis, and the number of the states with legalized recreational weed continues to grow. This year, there may be a few more states added to the list.
When people started to speak openly about the possibilities they get from using marijuana as a medicine, the former NFL players joined the discussion and stated the need to change the marijuana policy within the league.

TOP 8 Books About Sports Released in 2015

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TOP 8 Books About Sports Released in 2015

TOP 8 Books About Sports Released in 2015Books may be related to sports in the most direct and obvious way—they may be written about or even by the people who know every detail of the world ofprofessional sports: athletes, coaches, managers. SportDailyTimes will tell you about the most interesting and intriguing books about sports released in 2015.

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