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Training Psychology of East Germany's Olympic Athletes

In nine pages this report discusses the GDR Olympic athletes in terms of the psychological training they must undergo that is in a...

Black Community and the Impact of Black Sports Figuresty

talk to other tribes in North Dakota about education, lifestyle choices, success, character and health. Others will establish gr...

Community Role of Black Professional Athletes

center on black male athletes, and the role that they serve in their community. The Good Guys An example of one of the really goo...

Athletes and Drug Use

the overwhelming pressure to succeed. With the understanding that such reasons inevitably fall under the headings of cheating and...

'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...

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...

Business and Professional Athletes

of a game to be a business, and too much of a business to be a game" continues to provoke curiosity because the very nature of cor...

Athletics, Self Esteem, and Drugs

drugs will enhance performance while others will deteriorate performance. Performance-enhancing drugs have been used by athletes i...

Steroid Usage in College Male Athletes

among college athletes is well documented. Ever since steroid use in competitive sports came to national attention in the professi...

Vegetarian Athletes/Nutritional Needs

products, such as eggs or milk, or plant sources of protein have to be combined so that their protein content is complementary, th...

Sports Coaches and the Impact of Using Tobacco

34(9): 42. A surprising look at the number of runners that continue to smoke in spite of the fact they are competitive runners an...

Legal Role of an Agent in Professional Sports

side in either the non-union or the union workplace. For example, even unorganized workers have the right to engage in unified act...

Athletes and College Athletics in Division I

sports and were paid for their services (Putnam, p. 4). This practice continued throughout the first portion of the twentieth cen...

Muhammad Ali and Michael Jordan

Ali or Jordan who bestows upon his admirers the importance of making positive contributions to self and society. II. FAMILY BACKG...

Heat Exhaustion Susceptibility of Athletes

it is oxygenated, picking up the oxygen molecules that the blood will carry to other areas of the body. The left ventricle sends ...

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...

Identity Searches in Literature

A.E. Housman. They are both young men who die before they age, before they have perhaps achieved a powerful greatness it would see...

A.E. Houseman: To An Athlete Dying Young

won your town the race x / x /...

Media Representation of Black Professional Athletes

openly voicing their dislike for the player. Some writers even speculated that a new Bonds record would only benefit the game beca...

Women and Hamstring Injuries

strains are graded 1 - 3, depending on the severity of the strain. "A grade 1 might consist of small micro tears in the muscle. A...

Hurdles Faced by Female Athletes Over Forty

healthy levels of physical activity" (Coe PG). Under the category of physiological aspects, one might readily apply the ele...

High School Athletics and Steroids

approaches. The growing field of sports psychology offers us this opportunity. Sports psychology can be used to more effectively...

LeBron James, Psychological and Ethical Moral Egoism

was receiving a congratulatory gift for his academic achievements, specifically, his 3.5 grade point average (Kansas City Star, 20...

Optimizing Athletic Performance Through Serious Regimens of Exercise and Nutrition

heart attacks are an unfortunate result of improperly planned and conducted exercise. Unfortunately, too many athletes resort to ...

Literature Review on Student Athletes, Stressors, Benefits, and Time Management

So these days we have huge sports programs - and students who are finding it more and more difficult to manage their time on all l...

Violence and the Role Models of Professional Sports Figures

enjoy playing sports, to adults who love sports and perhaps dream of being a professional athlete, professional athletes serve as ...

Injuries in Sports and Liability for College Campuses

Scholarships are typically awarded because of athletic ability, which strongly suggests that something is being offered by the col...

Society and What Salaries Reflect

10 years ago, the Christian Science Monitor, in covering an article about child care workers and the poverty-level wages they rece...

Addressing the Problem of Teenage Pregnancies in the UK

was 38.2 pregnancies per 1,000 women between the ages of 18 and 17 years. This is not evenly spread, with some areas having much h...

Unemployment is the Primary Concern

The real unemployment rate is about twice that which is reported by the media. Either report is deceiving - the BLS reports only t...