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Short Stories of Jack London

In 8 pages the Social Darwinism and naturalism that are featured in the Jack London short stories 'The Whale Tooth,' 'The One Thou...

Sports and Steroids

to articulate and enforce some type of punitive steroid policy. The current penalties for positive use are as follows: Offense/...

NFL and the Effects of Instant Replay

to the playoffs after nine long years (Grumet, 1999). Their stumbling block to the playoffs was in the form of the New York Jets....

Proposing Increasing a Minor League Baseball Team's Revenue Streams

as well. If pricing is too high, there will be more unsold seats. Another part of pricing is whether or not there should be tier p...

Economics and Baseball's Reserve Clause

At first, players had no objections to the clause-on the contrary, because a team reserved only its "five best players," being put...

MLB's New Steroid Policy Testing and its Moral Justification

athletes are not satisfied with their own natural level of performance, coupled with the increasing demands made by coaches, owner...

Determining Monopsony in the Salaries of NonContracted and Contracted Baseball Players

In three pages Andrew and Victor Brajer's research into this topic as detailed in 1994's 'Baseball Stars and Baseball Cards: A Ne...

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...

Economics and Political Influences in Sport

may be akin to saying to the leading fast-food chains, such as McDonalds, Burger King KFC etc, and telling them that they will all...

Legendary Pro Quarterbacks Joe Montana and Terry Bradshaw 'Passing into History'

territory to a Bayou country boy. Pittsburgh was a hardened steel city comprised of rabid sports fans desperate for a professiona...

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 ...

Increased Accountability in Education

Charter. The stated purpose was to provide parents with more information about the performance of their local schools. As with any...

Major League Baseball and Revenue Sharing

standard practice in major league baseball (MLB) for over a decade. This paper defines revenue sharing and argues that it is appar...

Major League Baseball, Drug Testing, and Ethics

They also promised tough penalties for testing positive ranging from a ten-day suspension for a first positive testing and a possi...

20,000 Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne and Futuristic Technology

as if it existed at the time. Carter Kaplan notes that "Verne exhibits strict adherence to known science or pseudo-science, a jour...

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...

Effects of Negro League Baseball

Frank Thompson in Long Island, who organized a group of Argyle Hotel waiters in the 1880s and ultimately merged with a Philadelphi...

Organized Sports and the Increasing Trend of Violence

violence in sports has serious implications for the direction of Western society in general, as well as negative implications for ...

Wage Disputes, Collective Bargaining and the 1994 MLB Strike

This is because the assumption that wages are paid out of a fixed amount of capital has long been discredited (pp. 63). Bard and K...

Overview of the NFL's Dallas Cowboys

"the Boys are back in town." The team has been described as one of the great American sports dynasties and yet it has had to deal...

Second World War, Colonialism, Muslims, and India

In twelve pages this paper discusses how the Second World War and the response of the Indian soldier influenced separatism and ind...

Business Cycle Dating; Purposes of the Fed

This is a high-level view, and one that works only in retrospect. As example, it is difficult to accurately proclaim when the nat...

Nursing Education Bill

quality and care" of health services that offered to rural areas throughout the US (Clinton, 2007). In addition to providing fun...

Gary Nash/Race and Revolution

most important and fascinating of them were fashioned by black and white revolutionists who saw race as the great American dilemma...

Shifting Vietnam to a Global Economy

The writer discusses the way in which Vietnam is transforming into a free market economy despite the fact that it is a Communist n...

Steroid Abuse in Major League Baseball

2007, p. 128). After all, if 23 New York Mets players have either taken in the past or are currently taking performance-enhancing...

National Football League and the Effects of Instant Replay Technology

bit (as he states) and managed to slow down the frame time. Stop Action was born. Soon the Airforce contacted Jim to ask if he mig...

National League of Nursing and the American Nurses Association

follow-up full medical treatment and counseling. 5. Bargain for violence-prevention provisions. 6. Make violence-prevention progra...

Anti Defamation League and the American Arab Anti Discrimination Committee

in line with their inherently deceitful characteristics. The traditional white cloak and hood have gone the way of other old and ...

Overlooked Major League Baseball Star Roger Maris

of his surname) was born on September 10, 1934 in Hibbing, Minnesota. His Austrian grandfather had settled in the town north of D...