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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...

Steroid Usage in College Male Athletes

among college athletes is well documented. Ever since steroid use in competitive sports came to national attention in the professi...

Vegetarian Athletes/Nutritional Needs

products, such as eggs or milk, or plant sources of protein have to be combined so that their protein content is complementary, th...

Being There by Jerzy Kosinski and Media's Social Role

him as the "log-cabin-and-hard-cider" candidate and Van Buren as an aristocrat and a representative of the upper classes (Holme, 1...

Male Collegiate Athletes and Injury's Psychological Consequences

In fourteen pages this paper discusses how male college athletes psychologically respond to injury in a consideration of anxiety, ...

Media's Role in Teenage Girls with Eating Disorders

A girl or young woman begins to systematically starve herself and sometimes exercise compulsively as well. Her weight falls and he...

Olympics and Use of Drugs by Amateur Athletes

In twenty six pages this paper discusses the Olympics and the use of drugs by amateur athletes and includes the types used along w...

Sports and SCD

In ten pages this paper discusses Sudden Cardiac Death as it involves sports athletes. Six sources are cited in the bibliography....

Laws and Athletes

In twenty three pages this paper examines whether or not laws ensure that there is an equal 'playing field' for athletes regardles...

Society and Sports Law

In twenty five pages this paper discusses how athletes are protected by the law in a consideration of various jurisdictions, case ...

Training Psychology of East Germany's Olympic Athletes

In nine pages this report discusses the GDR Olympic athletes in terms of the psychological training they must undergo that is in a...

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...

Media's Global 'Americanization'

Clearly, to some extent, the media is American because there is American dominance in the world and American products and attitude...

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...

The Media's Impact on Society

societal input is the formation of a number of dysfunctional assumptions and negative automatic thoughts. We are brainwa...

High School Athletics and Steroids

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

Mass Media's Impact on Society According to Postmodernism

the mass media has become one of the strongest players in that interaction. While many human traits are inherited genetically, ot...

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...

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...

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...

What It Means To Be A Black Belt In Karate

their parents. They must have it all right now or they will be upset. While this behavior may be considered normal for children,...

Gaining Weight for the Young Athlete

nutritious meals per day. Sepe (2006) explains that the meals should be balanced between carbohydrate, protein and fat. He explain...

Public Opinion and the Media's Role

According to the scholars who research this topic, the media is responsible for presenting to the public a variety of issues that ...

A.E. Houseman: To An Athlete Dying Young

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

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...

Public and Mass Media's Influences

it to satisfy the many demands, and constrained by the social constructs that maintain any society (Glover, 1984). Here we may arg...

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 ...