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Private Team Sports Facilities and City Financing

notes that in the 1990s alone: "30 new professional sports facilities have been built at...

Drugs That Enhance Athletic Performance

were barred from the first Olympiad in Greece due to illegal ingestion of animal protein" (p.27). The reason why these drugs are f...

Arguing Against Compensation of Collegiate Athletes

attend (Vera). Finally, "some analysts believe student-athletes should receive payment because they do not receive a quality educ...

Review of 'Perceived purposes of sport among recreational participants: The role of competitive dispositions' Article

Previous research has determined that involvement in organized sports caused the development of both negative and positive percept...

Sports and Gender

Sport and society is examined. Gender is discussed in this context.This three page paper has six sources listed in the bibliograp...

European Sports Car Rankings

the same rate. Augmented aerodynamics and adjustable spoilers create a significantly enhanced downforce (forty percent more than ...

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...

Market for Sport Shoe Trainers

2004 and 2009, and the main purchases are males, who make 52% of the purchases (Euromonitor, 2005). Most of the goods are sold th...

Concessions and Sports Management

also deals with the hospitality industry as well (so its important not to confuse this solely with sports management). 2.What pri...

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...

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...

Sports and Cheating

breaks the rules to gain an advantage, that is cheating. Cheating is important not only because a lot of money is involved, and th...

Leisure Activities in Britain 1700 - 1850

festivals (2005). Early ritualized activities of leisure would continue after many people began to reside in the Victorian tow...

Globalism, Technology, Capitalism, and Sport

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

Equalizing Aspects of Sport

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

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 ...

Cheerleading and Sports Gender Constructs

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

The Common Sports Injury of a Sprained Ankle

a step or jumps inadvertently onto an opponents foot with an inverted foot (Lynch, 2002). Often, the foot is plantar flexed when t...

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...

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...

Baseball as America's Favorite Sport

notwithstanding, Doubledays involvement in baseballs Civil War presence is what has come to represent the start of a national trad...

Homosexuality Perception of Female Athletes

that public image is just as much a part of the game as the ground stroke. People watch the Williams sisters because they are exce...

Ancient Rome and Sports

also the most violent, podium walls had to be erected to protect the audience from possible injury (Futrell, 1997). Because these...

Politics and Sports

p.33). It is hard to know if that is the truth or political posturing. After all, to gain the hearts of New Yorkers it is best to ...

College Sports and Gambling

of the athletes (Sports Wagering, 2003). The NCAA argues that sports wagering of any kind "demeans the competition and competitor...

Supply and Demand Business Economics Illustration

in sales, J.D. Power has estimated that the full size trucks it will fall from sales of 786,000 in 2002 to 700,000. There is disa...

Andrew Zimbalist's Unpaid Professionals

the most part, his examination of this particular field of study is "firmly grounded in economic theory and free of the rhetoric t...

Sports, Sexism, and Language

dark, wavy hair and deep brown eyes, hes drop dead gorgeous...a real basketball hunk" (p. K0164). Hastings, of course, made up thi...

Sports, Society and a Student's 'Senior Wish'

I am not on the team, its accomplishments do to some extent reflect on me. The team is a reflection on my school and the accomplis...

National Football League and Player Compensation Issues

first time in memory) and the hockey lock-out earlier in the season. The brouhaha forced author and former president of the Americ...