Introduction and Early Life

 Adam Goodes is a professional Australian Rules football player that currently plays for the Sydney Swans Football Club in the Australia Football League (AFL). He was born on January 8, 1980 in Wallaroo, South Australia. He is about 1.93 metres tall and currently weighs about 99kg. He plays in the midfield and forward positions and wears jersey number 37. Goodes is an indigenous Australian with a rich heritage and involvement in many native sports and community endeavours. He attended primary school at Merbein West Primary School in 1986 at Victoria, where he first started playing Australia Rules Football. He attended high school at Horsham, Victoria where he represented Victoria at under sixteen (U-16) and under eighteen (U-18) levels. He first featured in Victoria Football League (VFL) when he was 16 years with North Ballarat Rebels Football Club, and also featured in a premiership winning team. This is where he was identified by scouts and further recruited by Sydney Swans.

 Early Football Career

 He was drafted into the AFL during the 1997 national AFL draft during the third round of that season. He was pick number forty three (43) and spent his first season at the club in the reserves but eventually got into the clubs first team the following year and worked hard to win the Rising Star Award in 1999. The following two seasons of 2000 and 2001 where quite challenging for him as he was trying to develop his game. At a point in the early part of the 2002 season, there were indications that he might be dropped if his performances did not improve. But he later found himself playing well in the ruck position. His performance later improved tremendously during the second half of that season such that it was said that he exhibited some of the finest skills and top performances of his career during those games. He ended this season winning two Brownlow medals.

 Professional Football (AFL) Career/Achievements

 Adam continued to improve on his performances and the 2003 season became his best season since he began playing in the AFL. He played very critical roles that saw the team reaching the preliminary final spot that year. He clinched the Best and Fairest Award of the club for that year, i.e. the Bob Skilton Award and an All Australian team selection for the first time in his football career. He also got one of the highest honours in his AFL playing career this year winning the leagues Brownlow Medal alongside two other players. It was the second time in the history of the AFL that the medal will be shared between three players.

 The 2004 season was not as eventful as the other seasons. The club did not have or record very significant achievements. Sydney Swans were only able to get to the semi-final stage of the Finals series before they were eliminated. Goodes suffered recurrent knee injuries, however he still managed to play all the games of the season. In the later part of the season Adam changed from a forward role to play in the back lines by his coach. The next season of 2005 was a good one for Goodes, he helped his club to win their first premiership title since 1933, and was also awarded a life membership of the Swans when he played his 150th game during this season.

 As a result of his outstanding performances, he was selected for the All Australian Team and he also won his second Brownlow medal in the 2006 season. He has been playing exceptionally well to date and he is still a major contender for most of the awards and honours.

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Cheerleading has become very popular nowadays. Before cheerleading was popular among sports like soccer and basketball. But now it is popular in game of cricket and other different processions. It includes tumbling, dance, jumps and stunting to direct event's spectators to cheer on sports teams at games and matches. It is headed by an athlete who is called cheerleader. It is another guidance of these leaders the entire team performs.

 Though it seems to be quite easy task but actually is not. It requires special skill and practice. They perform in groups with special kind of strong beats music. Cheerleading is actually very important for lifting the moral of the teams. It gives special kind of energy and spirits when it is cheered for their own nation. It also relief the tension of the players.

 They perform various kinds of stunts, dance gymnastics. When one hears the name of own country while cheering the whole nation stood by them. For that many celebrities has also worked as cheerleaders to feel the pressure of playing for own nation. It includes:

 Popular Celebrity Cheerleaders

 These were names of some celebrities, who had worked as cheerleaders and had given their precious time to enjoy the rally.

 1.President George W. Bush cheered for both Philips Academy Andover in Andover, Mass. and Yale University
 2.Cameron Diaz was a cheerleader at Long Beach Polytechnic High in Long Beach, California.
 3.Halle Berry was cheerleader for the Bedford High Bearcats in Bedford, Ohio
 4.Madonna was a cheerleader at the University of Michigan
 5.Mandy Moore The singer and actress Amanda Leigh Moore was once a cheerleader in Pop Warner, a youth football and cheerleading organization in the United States. She was a cheerleader for five years.
 6.Meryl Strep was a cheerleader for Bernards High School in New Jersey.
 7.Paula Abdul was also head cheerleader, and went on to become a cheerleader for the L.A. Lakers basketball team. She also worked on the choreography for the team's routines.
 8.Samuel L. Jackson cheered for the Morehouse College Maroon Tigers
 9.Sandra Bullock was a cheerleader at Washington Lee High, in Arlington, Va.
 10.Tristan Rein spent her time cheering on the Miami Heat before she decided to become America's favorite Bachelorette
 11.Dwight D. Eisenhower, the 34th president, was a cheerleader during his high school years in Abilene, Kansas.

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Advantages & Disadvantages Of Artificial Grass
 Advantages
 Artificial turf can be a solution when the environment is particularly hostile to natural grass.
 Artificial turf can withstand more use than natural grass.
 Low maintenance.
 Suitable for roof gardens and swimming pool surrounds (chemicals and high heat wont damage the turf).
 Some artificial turf systems allow for the integration of fiber-optic fibres into the turf. This would allow for lighting or advertisements to be directly embedded in a playing surface.
 Disadvantages
 Some artificial turf requires infill such as silicon sand and/or granulated rubber made from recycled car tires. This material may carry heavy metals which can leach into the water table.
 Periodic disinfection is required as pathogens are not broken down by natural processes in the same manner as natural turf. Despite this, recent studies suggest certain microbial life is less active.
 Friction between skin and artificial turf causes abrasions and/or burns to a much greater extent than natural grass. This is an issue for some sports. However, with some third-gen grasses, this is almost completely eliminated by the use of polyethylene yarn.
 Artificial turf tends to be much hotter than natural grass when exposed to sunlight.
 Artificial Grass Uses
 Baseball
 Artificial turf was first used in Major League Baseball in the Houston Astrodome in 1966, replacing the grass field used when the stadium opened a year earlier. Since then it has been used is several different venues and is one of the main reasons that research and development went into artificial grass to help improve the grass types available for sports.
 The biggest difference in play on artificial turf was that the ball bounced higher than on real grass, and also travelled faster, causing infielders to play farther back than they would normally, so that they would have sufficient time to react. The ball also had a truer bounce than on grass, so that on long throws fielders could deliberately bounce the ball in front of the player they were throwing to, with the certainty that it would travel in a straight line and not be deflected to the right or left. However, the biggest impact on the game of "turf", as it came to be called, was on the bodies of the players.
 The artificial surface, which was generally placed over a concrete base, had much less give to it than a traditional dirt and grass field did, which caused more wear-and-tear on knees, ankles, feet and the lower back, possibly even shortening the careers of those players who played a significant portion of their games on artificial surfaces. Players also complained that the turf was much hotter than grass, sometimes causing the metal spikes to burn their feet, or plastic ones to melt. These factors eventually provoked a number of stadiums, such as Kauffman Stadium in Kansas City, Missouri, to switch from artificial turf back to natural grass.
 American Football
 In 1969, Franklin Field, the gridiron stadium of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, switched from grass to artificial turf this was the first American football field to have a artificial grass field.
 In 2006, Gillette Stadium, the football stadium of the New England Patriots and the New England Revolution, switched from grass to FieldTurf due to the conflict of poor weather and hosting many sporting and musical events at the stadium. It is one of 13 National Football League stadiums that have turf instead of grass fields; the Patriots shared stadium actually switched from AstroTurf to natural grass before reverting to a next-generation artificial surface.
 Styling
 Many residential supports of artificial grass have chosen to use it as it is maintenance free, you do not have to water, cut or care for the grass. It is also used near many swimming pools and balconies as the grass isn"t affected by chemicals or the lack of water. The newest generation of artificial grass is also extremely hard to notice the differences between traditional grass and artificial, with it only being noticed by touch.
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