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Cheerleading and Sports Gender Constructs

peer pressure, societal norms, family expectations, all contribute towards "channelling" the individual into certain forms of iden...

Equalizing Aspects of Sport

special accommodations. In respect to race, sometimes there is reverse discrimination. Some believe that the black man has a nat...

Globalism, Technology, Capitalism, and Sport

transnational, those that promote the American way of life and "transmit American popular culture" across the globe (Keys, 2000). ...

Societal Role of Sports

provides a healthy venue for socializing. Rather than meet clients in a bar, for example, they can chat on the golf course. Young ...

Burnout and the American Coach

Another symptom of burnout is the development of negative, cynical attitudes about clients and finally, a third aspect of the synd...

Australia, Alcohol Consumption and the Impact of Combining Advertising and Sports

"total years of life lost to disability (YLD), with depression accounting for 8% of the total YLD" (Mathers, et al., 2001; p. 1076...

Sports Related Products and Marketing Research

both ask customers what they want and then make efforts to supply those needs. Several have found that ignoring customers changin...

Problems Associated with Vandalism

discussed knowledge of the facts of the case rather than determining what the children knew at the onset. Though police are reluc...

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...

Sports and Children

of the young children who will soon bloom into adolescence. In fact, LeBlanc and Dickson in their book Straight Talk About Childre...

Cross Promotional Advertising Between Sports Brands and Consumer Products

advertising is the art form of consumer capitalism. In analyzing the kinds of ideas, values and ethics contemporary advertising a...

Contemporary British Sports and Feminist Theory

This inequality is based upon the perception that they are the weaker gender. Feminist theory is an attempt to break through esta...

Women's Professional Football Team Business Proposal

the 2001 season (Bickelhaupt, 2000). It is difficult to keep up with the number of teams because more seem to be added each month...

Father and Son Bonding Through Sports

wolfed down all winter had turned into spring steel" (Sanders 34). While there is bonding between father and son, there is also a...

Injury Control Strategies

Kellermann rerported that "Injuries result in more than 142,000 deaths in the United States each year and permanently disable anot...

TV Viewer Types Types Of Television Viewers: Home Shopping Addicts, Diehard Sports Fans And Public Television Loyalists

available around the clock due to the technological advancements television has bestowed, shoppers are not only able but they are ...

Sports Origin and Theories

recreational sports such as cycling. The author notes that the influx of the sport paralleled and reinforced the embrace of values...

Social Responsibility, Ethics, Sports, and Philosophy

of medicine, law, and theology has been expanded tremendously, however. Now there are professionals in practically every field an...

UNDER ARMOUR AND FINANCIAL ANALYSIS

portion of the running-shoe market to be successful and to improve on financial performance (Mehta, 2009). Other potential opportu...

Assessment of Nike

publicly listed firm there are also increasing pressures to create value this is also seen in the supply chain management. In ma...

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...

Beer and Circus by Murray Sperber

nations universities, in order to stay viable financially, have placed undue emphasis on their sports programs, utilizing a perspe...

Game of Life by Shulman and Bowen

Game of Life: College Sports and Educational Values (2002) a study of the athletic programs in 30 colleges and universities that...

Examination Of Alcohol And Sports

their rights are being violated by the limitation (Stockwell, 2001). II. CONTROVERSIES OF MARKETING/ADVERTISING ALCOHOL AT COLLEG...

Racism and Sports

story interesting is that the United States all but used him to prove to Adolf Hitler that African Americans could beat Germans, a...

Learning to Focus in Sports and Other Life Pursuits

original publication but today the techniques he advocates are widely recognized in a diversity of disciplines. Those techniques ...

Violence In Sports

the Boston Bruins in the head and fractured his skull; the players had already engaged in two fights earlier that game and were su...

Why Violence IS So Prevalent In Sports

very heart of causal processes (Bandura, 1986). Emphasizing the notion of learned expectations, this theory is closely associated...

Pro Sports and Imposing Age Limits

necessities of life for themselves as determined by a capitalistic society. According to antitrust proponents, rules that include...

Out-Of Market Sports Fans

MLB Advanced Media has tapped into todays ever-mobile society by making games available to approximately one-quarter of a million ...