A connection between football, wrestling and fighting??

I just read an interesting research study done by Derek Kreager- prof of sociology at Penn State.
The pertinent part of the study is quoted here.

"The sports-violence relationship is a theoretically rich area with competing hypotheses from prominent perspectives. Contrary to the social control hypothesis,my results suggest that sports fail to protect males from interpersonal violence. Indeed, contact sports (e.g., football and wrestling) are positively associated with male serious fighting. This effect is mediated by peer football participation, such that embeddedness in all-football networks substantially increases the risk for serious fighting. These findings are consistent with hypotheses derived from social learning and masculinity theories and provide important impetus for further research. Although caveats exist, this study offers leverage on a potential paradox of youth sports, and this understanding may help inform schools’ sports policies.

Playing hypermasculine contact sports shapes subsequent violence."

This begs the question- Does participating aggressive sports like football and wrestling correlate with fighting for young men? What an interesting thought.

Skim through the study and weigh in on what you think about this issue.

Do teachers really understand?

I have been reading and hearing a lot lately about how teachers need to get in touch with the culture of the generation that they teach- the millennial generation. This generation is described in the following:
Wally Block's definition as a father
Generation X versus the Millennial Generation
The Progressive view of Millennial

My question is: do your teachers really understand this generation (their needs, their use and need of technology, their need to equate friends and family, their need to multitask and seek the Internet to answer questions, their need to rewrite or break the rules, etc)?

How do we as teachers try to teach this generation successfully?