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Yes because violence are included in practically all sports.
Sports encourage teamwork (getting along with others), decisiveness(making decisions that affect others as well as yourself), leadership, honor and integrity.
There is only two sports that encourage violence and those are Ice Hockey and WFC fighting. Maybe those are the only sports that TheJared watches.
Football? Rugby? Boxing? Virtually all martial arts competitions?
Hockey penalizes violence relative to any of these. I'm not sure I'd qualify suspensions or penalty box time that harms one's team as "encouraged violence". For example both football and hockey involve powerful hits, but usually the point of football defence is to inflict violence on someone else (the ball carrier) by tackling or hitting them. For hockey defence, sharp hits are part of the play, and can be exciting for some fans, but are not required or encouraged.
All that said, most sports encourage quite a bit beyond violence and that they include violence often has little to do with whether or not they encourage it. Most professional athletes do not, for example, run around town hitting people and beating them up. One assumes they would if they were encouraged to be violent.