Gambling in College Sports:
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This 3 page paper offers an overview of gambling in regards to college sports. Furthermore, this paper explores some of the controversy which surrounds this topic. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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Gender Issues Concerning Anabolic Steroids in the Field of Sports
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A 14 page paper which discusses various gender concerns with relationship to anabolic steroid use in sports. The paper presents information concerning the supposed benefits and realistic side effects of steroids. It also breaks down the gender concerns and illustrates how the anabolic steroids effect men and women, as well as adolescents. Bibliography lists 11 sources.
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Hockey Community and the Vancouver Canucks
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This 6 page report discusses the enthusiasm and camaraderie that exists within the hockey community on the part of the most fervent fans. Their support and hope serves as the core of their sports fan community but the fact that the team has had several mediocre to poor years in succession also serves as a tie that binds Vancouver Canucks fans to one another. They are, in fact, a community. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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How Technology Has Affected the Olympics
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This 5 page paper looks at the Olympics since the turn of the twentieth century and talks about how technological change has affected the games. Changes concerning sports equipment as well as advances in communication and transportation are discussed. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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Human Growth Hormone And Athletes
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10 pages in length. Athletes represent a special group of people who are keenly aware of their nutritional requirements. After all, they demand a great deal from their bodies as a means by which to achieve their varied and often rigorous athletic goals. Still, this is not to say that just because one is an athlete that one heeds either the legal and dangerous aspects of obtaining an artificial � albeit optimal � performance. As a means by which to overcome the inherent setbacks that come with size, the writer discusses how athletes have been known to take human growth hormone supplements; believing that the benefits of enhanced performance will outweigh the related issues with health and sportsmanship, the sports world has become inundated with the use of a very questionable dietary addition. Bibliography lists 10 sources.
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Human Relationships in Football
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5 pages. In the sport of football there are many human relationships that form. These relationships are based on many different levels, and have a definite psychological impact on the players, the coaches, the fans and the entire team. This paper is an in-depth research of some of these relationships, how they form, why they form, what they mean and how they affect the team. Bibliography lists 7 sources.
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Increased Ticket Pricing of Basketball
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This 5 page report discusses the fact that professional basketball ticket prices have skyrocketed in the past few years. The average fan cannot afford a ticket, much less a ticket for a good seat. One has to wonder what sort of impact the lack of affordability and the elitism that has evolved around basketball will ultimately have in terms of game attendance, present behavior of spectators, and the future behavior of fans. A number of factors have combined to cause such a situation and team owners and management must develop a number of creative ways of responding to the situation if they are to continue to maintain a full house of fans on game nights. Bibliography lists 8 sources.
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International Sports Federations
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This 7 page essay discusses the concept of international sports federations and the ways in which they have a distinctly economic impact on the world. The past few years have not been some of the best for the various international sports federations of the world in terms of their image and prestige. At the core of many of the issues is the one that governs so much of modern life -- economics. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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Mad As Hell Doesn't Begin to Say It
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This five page paper presents a discussion on the book " Mad As Hell : How Sports Got Away from the Fans-And How We Get It Back" by Mike Lupica. The belief of the author that the sports world has gotten out of control with greed and attitude is the main themes of the book. The author feels the fans have to ability and power to change it back to the way it used to be using simple strategies that are outlined in the book. Bibliography lists one source.
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Major League Baseball and the Umpires Association
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This 8 page report discusses the controversies that have revolved around labor issues of Major League Baseball and baseball umpires. Certain fundamental labor issues are in force, however, the unique aspects of professional sports adds to the overall complexity of the process. The decision by the umpires to �quit� rather than strike in September of 1999 ultimately backfired on them and they have had to work to reconstruct some type of a professional association for collective bargaining. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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