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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...

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...

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...

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...

The Effects of Female Coaches on Male Sports Teams

extent, the role that women play in the locker room does make a difference. Reporters or fans are one thing, but a female coach is...

Issues Associated with Sports Marketing

necessarily participate at all but will buy merchandise which is connected with the sport....

The Role of Goal Setting in Sports

performance (Duda, 1993). Therefore, our first argument needs to be that goals setting is important, but not only in its e...

Best Sports Car BMW M3

price ranges for the BMW M3 can run in the $45,000 to $53,000 range but for the money most people will agree it is well worth the ...

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...

Does Aggression Help or Hinder Performance in Sports

The student should consider presenting the following points: Kirker, Tenenbaum and Mattson (2000), for example, recognized that ...

Power at Play Sports and the Problem of Masculinity by Michael A. Messner Reviewed

observations is that sports changed with the introduction of females and acceptance of gay athletes as traditional male sporting e...

'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....

Sports Fans and Advanced Sports Technology's Negative Effects

Americas favorite pastime seen better days. The lure of money is the single most important lure that has allowed advanced t...

Community Sport Promotion Supported

with each other. Certainly community sport cannot solve all of societys problems, but it is a proven route to enhancing com...

Big Money and Big Sports

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

'Obscene' Salaries of Professional Sports' Celebrities

the fact that they are ostensibly playing a game for pay and that their talents are unique in all the world, the fact remains that...

Sports' Success and Motivation

they mean and how they affect the team can give us some of the insight to the motivating factor that affects any team and the indi...

Overview of Sports' Shoulder Injuries and Rehabilitation

In eleven pages this paper discusses research on sports related shoulder injuries and various rehabilitation approaches with the i...

Overview of Collegiate Sports' Title IX

previously were. In offering some information regarding the history of Title IX we present the following: "* On June 23, 1972, Pre...

Becoming a Greater Sports Fan with Fantasy Sports

Before playing fantasy football, I gave little thought to the function of a commissioner or the importance of the role in team ope...

High Performance Drugs: Social Consideration

is both famous and respected. However, it becomes difficult for the child or adolescent to understand the motivation behind such ...

Motivational Factors: Literature Review

note the impact perceived control of external influences has upon an individuals ultimate behavior. Gallozzi (2008) points out ho...

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...

The Use of Anabolic Steroids Among High School Students

the necessity of these models. Are mandatory testing programs effective? Before embarking on a review of the literature in terms...

Steroids

slugger Barry Bonds will be followed by the specter of steroid use as he chases major-league baseballs home run record" In this ar...

Athletes Should Not Use Steroids

school athletes use steroids, it is conceivable that this could be a significant factor. Not only that, but mood swings are quite...

Drug Testing for High School Athletes

can be required to submit to suspicionless drug tests as a condition of athletic participation...the response was initially tepid:...