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Baseball's Color Barrier and Jackie Robinson

Astonishingly, he stole 40 bases and scored 113 runs (Olsen, 1974). From the beginning, Jackie Robinson proved himself not only ...

Lasting Legacy of Baseball's Jackie Robinson

In eleven pages Brooklyn Dodgers' baseball player Jackie Robinson, who successfully broke through the sport's color barrier in 194...

Does Aggression Help or Hinder Performance in Sports

The student should consider presenting the following points: Kirker, Tenenbaum and Mattson (2000), for example, recognized that ...

Sports and the Use of Biomechanics

The writer examines the use of biomechanics in sports and focuses on accurate analysis and proper application of technology. The w...

Athletes and Sports

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

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...

Many Contrasts of Cassius 'Muhammad Ali' Clay

In five pages the sports' contributions of this African American heavyweight boxing champion are examined in terms of his many con...

Big Money and Big Sports

teachers? Teachers are certainly more important to society than baseball players?" To this perfectly legitimate question, Chass re...

Community Sport Promotion Supported

with each other. Certainly community sport cannot solve all of societys problems, but it is a proven route to enhancing com...

Journalists and Their Sports Influence

of any game, such as preventing specific players from participating. Rather, the most punitive injunction that the NCAA can impos...

Sports Fans and Advanced Sports Technology's Negative Effects

Americas favorite pastime seen better days. The lure of money is the single most important lure that has allowed advanced t...

Adolescence and Football

to Dr. Jordan Metzl, physician who specializes in sports medicine and author of The Young Athlete: A Sports Doctors Complete Guide...

Projections on the Impact Seoul Korea Will Have in Hosting the 2002 World Cup

Organization the economy has opened up like never before. Because the "Chinese teams match will be held in Korea, it will add to ...

Societal Effects of Sports

when Jackie Robinson broke the color barrier and opened up the game of Major League Baseball to all men, without regard to the col...

Hugo Chavez: Bad Medicine for Venezuela?

The first point that should be presented to support this thesis is that there is considerable evidence that Chavezs plans have don...

The Economic Impact of the FIFA 2010 World Cup Being Held in South Africa

needed in the public transportation systems to convey the large number of visitors to the different detestation, this may include ...

UK Mobile Telephone Industry; An Economic Explanation

entry into third generation mobile technologies. The market is still growing, in 2002 there were 44.1 million subscribers, which...

NIKE AND IMPACT ON SPORTS ADVERTISING AND APPAREL

is on the board of directors) founded NIKE in the early 1980s with Bill Bowerman, when they started selling a different kind of ru...

The Impact of NAFTA on Mexico

the impact it has had on the economy. When looking at the business statistics it appears that between 1994 when NAFTA came into ...

Economic Influences in Wigan

life in Victorian Wigan, complete with the social problems as well as the economic realities. Although this type of project has ta...

Major Issues in Obesity

at least 30 kg/m2" (Allison et al, 1999, p. 1530). It was found that approximately 22% of adult Americans, about 40.5 million pers...

Mike Lupica's Mad As Hell How Sports Got Away from the Fans-And How We Get It Back

In 5 pages this text and the impact of greed on sports and how fans can assist in halting this disturbing trend are examined. The...

Athletes and Advertising

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

Intercollegiate Sports, Participation of Women, and Title IX

In seven pages this research paper discusses how the participation of women in intercollegiate sports was impacted by Title IX wit...

1919 Scandal of the Chicago Black Sox

early years, when there was less regulation, there was an uncounted number of gamblers and certainly, gamblers were always looking...

Sports Industry and the Internet's Impact

In ten pages this paper examines the sport industry impact of the Internet and the World Wide Web. Nine sources are cited in the ...

Asia and American Popular Culture

Buddha would slowly give way to American capitalism, as pop culture stretched "from Singapore to Seoul, Bangkok to Bombay" (Smith ...

Physical Education and Sports

In five pages this paper discusses the changes in physical education and sports and also includes competition's psychological impa...

Potential Economic Influences on Starbucks

income, which will provide the scenario for increased demand, as long as the company satisfying consumer demands in terms of produ...

The Results of South Africa Hosting the FIFA 2010 World Cup

Manzenreiter, 2006). However, there is no certainty that there will be positive impacts, Bohlmann and Van Heerden, (2008) points o...