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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 ...

Paying College Athletes is the Right Thing to Do

part of the curriculum, done for the love of the game. But things have changed dramatically and this paper argues that today, coll...

A.E. Houseman: To An Athlete Dying Young

won your town the race x / x /...

Athletic and Nonathletic Students and their Scholastic and Social Differences

school athletics programs. As advantageous as physical exercise is for the body, it is as equally beneficial for the brain, as we...

Athletes Should Not Use Steroids

school athletes use steroids, it is conceivable that this could be a significant factor. Not only that, but mood swings are quite...

Drug Testing for High School Athletes

can be required to submit to suspicionless drug tests as a condition of athletic participation...the response was initially tepid:...

Why Performance Enhancing Drugs Should be Allowed

fit but some are wary of the effects of performance enhancing drugs and argue that it will create an unfair environment. Of cours...

Injuries in Sports and Liability for College Campuses

Scholarships are typically awarded because of athletic ability, which strongly suggests that something is being offered by the col...

Society and What Salaries Reflect

10 years ago, the Christian Science Monitor, in covering an article about child care workers and the poverty-level wages they rece...

Arguing Against Compensation of Collegiate Athletes

attend (Vera). Finally, "some analysts believe student-athletes should receive payment because they do not receive a quality educ...

Performers and Athletes Are Not Overpaid

attain great wealth and others have to struggle to get by? Chass (2002) relays the words of a teacher who believes that athletes ...

'Tikkun Olam' and Commitment of Jewish Athletes

World War II after the Japanese bombed military installations in Pearl Harbor. He volunteered for active duty in the Marine Corps...

Faith, Good Sportsmanship, and Goodwill Promoted by Jewish Athletes

a high school player, Mother would go over to the box... and drop some coins in the box... I asked what she was doing and she said...

Women's Athletics, Success, and Motivation

motivation and success in regards to womens sports, it is first helpful to perceive these elements within an historical and cultur...

African American Writers/On Each Other

"this beautiful/and terrible thing," which human beings find as "needful a air" and as "usable as earth," will finally belong to b...

Steroids

and Nandrolone" (Freudenrich, 2006). They can be taken as pills or injected, depending on the users preference (Freudenrich, 2006)...

High School Athletics and Steroids

approaches. The growing field of sports psychology offers us this opportunity. Sports psychology can be used to more effectively...

Sports Coaches and the Impact of Using Tobacco

34(9): 42. A surprising look at the number of runners that continue to smoke in spite of the fact they are competitive runners an...

Athletes and Drug Use

the overwhelming pressure to succeed. With the understanding that such reasons inevitably fall under the headings of cheating and...

Athletics, Self Esteem, and Drugs

drugs will enhance performance while others will deteriorate performance. Performance-enhancing drugs have been used by athletes i...

Athletes and College Athletics in Division I

sports and were paid for their services (Putnam, p. 4). This practice continued throughout the first portion of the twentieth cen...

Muhammad Ali and Michael Jordan

Ali or Jordan who bestows upon his admirers the importance of making positive contributions to self and society. II. FAMILY BACKG...

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...

Hurdles Faced by Female Athletes Over Forty

healthy levels of physical activity" (Coe PG). Under the category of physiological aspects, one might readily apply the ele...

Women and Hamstring Injuries

strains are graded 1 - 3, depending on the severity of the strain. "A grade 1 might consist of small micro tears in the muscle. A...

Heat Exhaustion Susceptibility of Athletes

it is oxygenated, picking up the oxygen molecules that the blood will carry to other areas of the body. The left ventricle sends ...

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 ...

Asthma and Exercis

lives. This is unnecessary, since there are effective medications on the market, along with other training guidelines that can he...

Running Speed and Muscle Strength

In twenty two pages this paper examines a 50 meter sprint run by nonprofessional athletes and the connection increased speed of ru...

Muscular Massage and Russian Electro Stimulation

In five pages this paper discusses how athletes as well as nonathletes can benefit from the muscle massage known as Russian Electr...