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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...

Big Money and Big Sports

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

'Chucks' of Converse

their profit margin even further. The company subsequently closed its US plants and contracted with a firm in India for production...

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....

Mathematics in Sports

The baseball player performs, for example, in relation not just to his own body but to the equipment of the sport. The bat in eff...

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...

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 ...

Assessment and Treatment of Sports Shoulder Injuries

In ten pages this paper assesses prevention and treatment of sports' shoulder injuries. Six sources are cited in the bibliography...

A Shoulder's Anatomy

In eleven pages the anatomy of a shoulder is considered in terms of physiology, injuries, and treatments that can be particularly ...

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...

Pro Sports and the Impact of Sports Agents

money as a priority over all other considerations may urge a young player to begin a professional career instead of going to colle...

Athletes and Sports

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

Extreme Sports Participation and What Motivates It

In five pages this paper examines various theories associated with the motivations behind extreme sports' participation. Four sour...

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...

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...

HUMAN GROWTH HORMONE AND SPORTS

to withdraw from the 1999 world championship after 13 vials of HGH were discovered in her suitcase (McHugh et al, 2005). T...

Impact Of Instant Replay In College-Level Sports

62). II. THE WHOLE STORY When the NCAA implemented instant replay in 2003, anyone even remotely interested in sports felt compel...

The Evolution of Language

a variety of human factors have all served as a focus for study and research in a number of areas. Because language is one of th...

The Pre-Existent Divine Word Or Son Took On Human Nature

Father, as being from above, and other such phrases (Kasper, 1978, p. 173). Jesus was in all ways like us with one great exceptio...

Strategic Human Resource Development

This 30 page paper looks at what is meant by Strategic Human Resource Development (SHRD), how it differences from human resource d...

The Right to Private Property in the Constitution

state ownership. In Sparta it was the state that owned all property, which also included land, citizens and slaves (Anonymous, 200...

Civil Rights, the Supreme Court, and the Administrations of Lyndon B. Johnson and Richard Nixon

which Brown was grounded rested "solely on the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution" (1977, p. 306). Warren also points out t...

Workplace and Gay Rights Issues

(Religious Intolerance, 2004). Pressure from lobbyists has prompted this decision but it appears to be a growing trend in the mar...

California Family Code and Property

kicked in. In this way, the value would be calculated for the 10 years prior to the marriage during which the husband owned the pr...

Anne Moody's Coming of Age in Mississippi

The civil rights movement occupies the primary focus of this book review which consists of two and a half pages....

Enlightenment Theories and Rights for Women

In five pages this paper assesses equal rights for women in an examination of the Enlightenment theories expressed by Gouges, Woll...

Florida and Women in Power

property holders voted from 1691 to 1780. The Continental Congress debated the woman-suffrage movement question at length, decidi...

Church and State in the 1992 U.S. Supreme Court Case of Lee v. Weisman 505

In eight pages this paper discusses whether or not the First Amendment rights are being violated by a school function's religious ...

Natural Law and Natural Rights

In six pages this essay discusses natural law and natural rights as considered by James Hutson in 'The Bill of Rights and the Amer...

'The Case for H.R. 1534: Equal Access to the Courts' Critiqued

In five pages the Private Property Rights Implementation Act of 1997 is examined in terms of implications....