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Being a volunteer of the Olympics is almost every college student’s dream, so do I. I am lucky to be one of the volunteer, and I really experienced a lot during my 15-day wheelchair basketball volunteer life.

Wheelchair basketball surely is played by the disabilities who lost control of their legs, their adamancy, their optimism, their courage astound me, encourage me and I am deeply moved by their spirit and beautifully technical skill in playing the game. I learned a lot from them. I do remember Helen Keller once said, “I am crying, crying for I have no shoes to wear, until I saw a person who even did not have feet.” God is fair to everybody; he closed one door by open another door for us. All of us should cherish our life; cherish the opportunity God give us. When we are frustrated , we can not lose faith, lose hope and feel desperate, because there are many people who are suffering far more than us, and who still living with full gratitude to God.

I also learn a lot about the Paralympics, especially the event of wheelchair basketball, and the knowledge of how to communicate with disabilities, how to help them without hurting their dignity. All of them are tough things, and need a lot patience and keen perception.

Unfortunately, this time my job is IWBF Service Assistant, which means I am not responsible for the athletes. While I am serve the president of the IWBF, the international officials, and technical delegates. Seems great, ha? The reality is totally different. English major students become a bodyguard, standing before their office and don’t know what else could do except dogsleep. At first, I think it is a boring work, because silently standing for several hours makes me nearly become a sample. Then I see my job as a way to challenge my patience and persistence, life become less boring, and I even found it’s interesting to some extent. But can not show my English ability made me feel a little sad.

Half an hour later I have to go to the International Indoor Stadium to start my work, and I am ready.

Tim Donaghy, a formal NBA referee, admitted that he fed inside information to gamblers, some of it regarding games he officiated. His action made him have to face up to 25 years in prison, while the N.B.A. faces months and perhaps years of suspicion regarding the integrity of its games.

Nowadays, fixing in games is more prevalent than people think, both in college games and pro games. Pros get to Vegas, get beat; kids get in trouble because there’s more gambling available. What is worse, fixing not only exists in basketball, but also in other famous sports, like tennis, baseball.

How do fans see this phenomenon? Will they continue fully support their favorite team? Probably not. Fans will find themselves are cheated by the players, referee, and they lose their formal faith to the team. That is a disaster for both the team and referee, if no fans love them, support them, how do they live in sports field? This is from a single team’s aspect, while from a big scale, what impact will it have on the whole sports field? People may begin to suspect the purity of the sports matches, and which means the whole sports field will face suspicion from audience and media. Sports franchises will face financial problem, even may go into bankruptcy.

How to solve this problem? I think this need the great attention from players, referee and the administration. If they don’t come out an effective plan to deal with fixing, they are on their way to die. Standing at a place of fans, I appeal the pertinent people could aware the bad influence of their action, and resist this action together.

  After six straight losing seasons and an off-season in which the franchise was found liable for sexual harassment, the New York Knicks was proved to completely lose its popularity; its fans were demonstrated in the Madison Square Garden either to save its franchise or to end the Garden’s tax-exemption since 1982. The city council is considering a resolution calling on the State Legislature to end the Koch-era exemptions that, have freed the arena from paying city property taxes. The city council members did it before, but it did not achieve a good resolution at that time. However, with the situation become worse and worse, finally there were members support the tax-exemption proposal.

Now the decline of the team may has a bad influence on the city’s economy either. The bad influence on Garden has made it find ways out. Personally speaking, the premier determination to allow the Garden free from paying taxes was established as an incite system, it was proved out a good method to improve both the quality of team and the local economy. But everything should be changed according to the changing situation, so did the tax-exemption system. Since it is an incite mechanism, it should has the effect to stimulate the performance of the team, if the team did badly, the taxes should be added.

So the better resolution in my opinion is to end the mechanism immediately, and wash out the bad teams. Besides, the Garden should also find another team to continue its life.