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Athletes, Academics and the Failure Rate

their image of dummies who are terrible academically but are passed by their professors because the team needs them, are in fact l...

Steroid Use in Major League Baseball

steroids enhance performance; or rather, there is sufficient doubt about it to suggest that it might not be true in all cases. In ...

The Film “Munich”

do it because you believe in the mission, but there is something about killing people at close range that is excruciating" (Schick...

CRIME AND SPORTS - THE CAUSES

to pass better. The fact that Sprewells "punishment" consisted of a 68-game suspension (rather than an outright lifetime ban from ...

Do Drugs, Get Banned Forever

(Albergotti). Some steroids apparently give a "boost" to performance that last for life, giving these athletes a permanent advanta...

Athletes, Congress, and Steroid Use

Shadows" hit the stands. Written by two San Francisco Chronicle reporters publicly implicated several big name baseball players i...

Fluid Retention Recommendations For Athletes

of fluid intake; at 2% body weight reduction, that equates to 200-300 mL over the course of each ten- to twenty-minute interval. V...

Dogs And Physical Therapy: How An Injured Athlete Can Benefit From A Trained Pit Bull

minds ability to help in this process cannot be overlooked. Social theory has long attributed animals to being a life-altering co...

AIDS: Duties To Treat Infected Persons

the same decision-making abilities as the next person with respect to how they conduct their lives; how those choices are put to u...

'To An Athlete Dying Young' by A.E. Housman

has died. Beginning in the third stanza, the poet discusses the death and again addresses the deceased directly. He says the youn...

A.E. Housman/An Athlete Dying Young

and comments that the young man was "smart" to "slip betimes away/From fields where glory does not stay" (lines 9-10). Housman the...

Treating Schizophrenia

(Long, 2003). In the diagnosis of schizophrenia, individuals are monitored over a period of six months during which they would ha...

Homosexuality Perception of Female Athletes

that public image is just as much a part of the game as the ground stroke. People watch the Williams sisters because they are exce...

Literature Review of Athletes and Carbohydrates

Yet literature on the idea of carbohydrates and the athlete continues to be mixed, especially with the recent introduction of low-...

The Cultures of Ancient Egypt, Greece, and Rome and Athletes

"The crews are straining at the oars; the crowd on shore is cheering wildly. Each boat must sail out to sea, swing around...

Athletes and Issues of Violence

the off field violence takes place after the end of the season (Campbell, 2000). One area that has recently been explored is the ...

Olympic Games, Professional Athletes, and Prejudice

In six pages this research paper considers professionalism as it relates to the Olympic Games and keeping them free of prejudice. ...

Athletes and Sports

In twelve pages this paper discusses child development and achieving an identity through sports in a consideration of pressures, r...

Female Athletes and Their Obstacles

can identify with Navritolovas experiences as they do not see the positive connection between achievement and sport (Widenhaus,199...

Monetary Greed and Professional Athletes

In five pages this essay considers the motivation of monetary greed in professional sports particularly as it pertains to NBA bask...

Errant Professional Athletes and Image Enhancement

In ten pages this paper considers how crisis management can be successfully undertaken by professional sports teams with examples ...

Female Athletes and Injuries to the Anterior Cruciate Ligament

In eleven pages the reasons that women are eight times more likely to suffer injuries to the anterior cruciate ligament than men p...

Athletes and Advertising

In fourteen pages this paper examines the relationship between advertising and sports in a consideration of product endorsements a...

Motivation in Athletes and Performance and Motivation Correlation

In a paper consisting of twenty five pages motivation is considered from the perspective of physical education programming and mot...

African American Athlete Interview

In two pages a sample interview with an African American hockey player is presented with such issues as attitudes of the media, ot...

Significant Stressors Of College Life

the new college environment is crucial for success" (Pritchard et al, 2006, p. 125). Some college students enjoy the economic sub...

Impact Of Instant Replay In College-Level Sports

62). II. THE WHOLE STORY When the NCAA implemented instant replay in 2003, anyone even remotely interested in sports felt compel...

Behaviorism/Teaching College Students

focused on operant rather classical conditioning (Mergel, 1998). Operant conditioning refers to "voluntary behaviors used in opera...

Students Are Consumers, Colleges Are Businesses

where and how they acquire higher education is both grand and far-reaching; that universities are feeling the financial pinch of s...

Forecasting for a Fast Food Outlet

and ice creams sold in the summer, this looks at the trends rather than just the past performance. Regression analysis takes th...