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NBA Performance and Genetics

the outcome of sports performance in particular. Others however, contend that other factors affect this performance. Obviously, ...

Salaries and Benefits of NBA and NFL Players

extensions and exceptions to this cap (Inside Hoops, 2006). In terms of contracts there are both rookie and player contracts. A ro...

A Utilitarian Approach to Sports

school, and despite working as many hours as I could, I knew I could never afford tuition, so I had to win a scholarship. Winning ...

Statistical Assessment of Team Performance and Coaches Salaries

A correctional analysis is undertaken in order to test whether or not there is a correlation between basketball coaches salaries a...

Film Review of Coach Carter

Carter and takes a swing at him, which Carter blocks and then, with an arm pended behind his back, Carter pushes Cruz against a wa...

CAREER: GENERAL MANAGER, PROFESSIONAL BASKETBALL TEAM

A job description, education and skills required for the position of general manager of a professional basketball team. There are ...

Law and Gambling in Professional Sports

hoping no gambling is occurring, thus there is no sensible regulation. As a result, we dont protect the integrity of any game bec...

How the Popular Game of Basketball Evolves as an International Sport

controlled, Naismith decided that teammates would move the ball by either passing it or bouncing it on the floor, but was uncertai...

CBAs of the NBA

bargaining agreement (CBA). In order to gain greater insights into this process, it is recommended to first examine some backgrou...

Business and Professional Athletes

of a game to be a business, and too much of a business to be a game" continues to provoke curiosity because the very nature of cor...

Basketball and Physics

towards the basket, they are essentially drawing on the basic laws of physics (1995). Newman coaches basketball at a gym in Calif...

LeBron James, Psychological and Ethical Moral Egoism

was receiving a congratulatory gift for his academic achievements, specifically, his 3.5 grade point average (Kansas City Star, 20...

Public Relations' Role in Handling NCAA Basketball Scandal

his papers for him? Scandals of those types have been highlighted many times over the past two decades. The most important conside...

College Basketball Player Recruiting and the Application of New Technologies

which is Macintosh/Windows compatible, features nearly 200 video clips of IU students, faculty and graduates talking about courses...

Grievance Procedures in Sports

assists community and charitable organizations; and it enhances and defends the NFL players image "on and off the field" (Our hist...

History of Mexico and Mesoamerican History's Role

across the continent moving throughout what is now the United States and down into what is now Mexico. In regards to his we note t...

Professional Basketball Physical Performance and Genetic Predisposition

In eight pages this paper focuses upon the NBA in a consideration of whether physical performance is influenced by genetic predisp...

Female Participation in Basketball

can manifest itself in numerous ways, each as tragic and as unfair as the other. Women who play in the eight-team Womens Na...

National Basketball Association Player Salaries

team owner is getting his money and where he expects the money to come from. The money comes advertisers who wish to pay to be par...

Professional Basketball and Ticket Price Increases

In five pages the astonishing ticket price increases of NBA games are discussed in this report. Eight sources are cited in the bi...

Growing a Women's National Basketball League Brand

womens basketball shows real promise of arriving at WNBA president Ackermans goals for the league. The promise is not resident on...

Family System Influence on the Development of Basketball Legend Kareem Abdul Jabbar

In ten pages Giant Steps by Peter Knobbler are applied to the family system influence exerted upon Kareem Abdul Jabbar's developme...

Man and Image of Basketball Superstar Michael Jordan

In five pages this paper examines Michael Jordan's iconic status as well as the man behind the image. Three sources are cited in ...

Being Cut from a High School Basketball Team Did Not Deter Michael Jordan

on any team in their childhood, and Jordan was a clear exception to that rule (Green, 2006). Jordan recalls that he could not rea...

International Marketing Plan of the National Basketball Association

European players as Spains Pau Gasol of the Memphis Grizzlies, Germanys Dirk Nowitzki of the Dallas Mavericks, and Frances Tony Pa...

NBA Basketball Coach Phil Jackson

piece. Then I could have sat down with both of them and hashed it out by ourselves. But by exposing his feelings to the entire t...

The Journalist in Combat

The history of reporting in war is the history of telling America's story. This paper explores that history and how the war story ...

The Importance of Women's History

women to the sidelines of history, as insignificant to the progress of humanity. By implication, this view says that women did not...

A Political History of Cuba

in 1515. Cubas position in the Caribbean has made it attractive to non-natives for centuries. The Spanish gave it extra at...

'Nightmare of History'

In three pages this paper examines the observation by J. Baldwin that James Joyce 'is right about history being a nightmare--But i...