Homeless Athletes

Throughout the years many people in America and around the world deal with hard times whether it be with money, illness, or even natural disasters. Everyone has their own battles to fight ,but for some the struggles are harder than others. Homelessness is one of the most well known struggles that people face around the world, but in America it is not always the poor or the underclass that always ends up homeless. In many cases famous athletes, celebrities, and the upper class end up homeless around the world and it shocks us all. But the chances of an athlete becoming financially or structurally unstable is something Americans think can’t occur because athletes make so much money in their profession, but more times than not it does. Homelessness
Homeless athletes, children, or even adults have difficulties facing this they feel the hunger, the stress of feeling alone, emotional stress of being helpless. Isaiah Lamb of Baltimore explains, “My mother was always on me about getting good grades and going to college, do what you love in order to get off what is on your mind on what’s going. If it wasn’t for basketball I would probably be in the streets, with some knuckleheads doing something bad”, (Rios, (2014), para 4). Isaiah is a college bound athlete that has overcome being homeless to pursue a career in basketball and has took his athleticism from high school ball and become a powerhouse in college. Some questions that some athletes ask themselves is: how do I arrive for practice on time when you have to take public transportation, how do I stay in shape when all I eat is a 99 cent hamburger or a bag of chips each night, how do I fit into a team if I am hiding a secret about my life? Athletes struggle with this all the time this emotional stress can bring them down tremendously and decrease their will to do school work or participate in practice or class. Believe it or not the government does try to help with the homeless, when they do know for sure that
Now you might have heard of this name from the movie ,“The Blind Side”, which is the main character who overcomes being homeless. According to Michael Oher, (2016), Michael Oher was born on May 28, 1986, in Memphis, Tennessee. He came from a broken home and his estranged father was murdered while Oher was in high school. Sean and Leigh Anne Tuohy became Oher's legal guardians and he developed into a college football star and a top NFL draft pick. Michael Sr. was frequently in prison, and Denise was addicted to crack cocaine. As a result, Michael Jr. was in-and-out of foster homes and frequently homeless. He also performed poorly as a student, repeating first grade and second grade and attending 11 different schools during his first nine years as a student. By the beginning of his senior year, Oher was the starting left tackle on the varsity football team. He quickly became a top football prospect in the state of Tennessee, which led to multiple scholarship offers from Division 1 schools. He also accepted a scholarship offer from the University of Mississippi after receiving offers from Tennessee, LSU, Alabama and NC State, among others. In the 2009 NFL Draft, Michael Oher was selected 23rd overall by the Baltimore Ravens. He started all 16 games for the Ravens and helped the team reach the playoffs in his first season with the team, he later helped the Carolina