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Racial Issues in Sport

clubs of a period of 16 years between 1978 and 1993. The theory was that if there was a competitive market for players each clubs ...

Change Considerations at Good Sport

management. The conclusion provides recommendation for managing change and conflict at Good Sport. Culture and Structure B...

‘Sports Night’: An Exciting and Memorable Experience

with my pen and autograph book, I was ready to meet these larger-than-life sports figures I had heard and read about my whole life...

Sports Training and Expectancy Theory

forthcoming if s/he performs as the manager expects (Expectancy Theory, n.d.). "Vroom suggests that an employees beliefs ab...

The Causes of Learning Disabilities

settings, to demonstrate that educatorse and parentse are "on the same team" and that it is likely that they both want the same th...

Earning Big Money and College Education

In four pages this paper examines the apparent necessity of acquiring higher education in order to earn a high salary in the workp...

Abandon and Violence in UK Soccer 'Football Hooliganism'

The aspects of hooliganism as encouraged by soccer is discussed in a paper consisting of 7 pages which also speculates on how Brit...

Professional Sports Management and Barriers African Americans Face

In a paper consisting of fifteen pages the realm of professional sports management is considered within the context of the barrier...

Amazonians and Sexual Behavior in Anxious Pleasures Sex Lives of an Amazonian People by Thomas Gregor

In five pages this anthropological and sociological text is reviewed....

Sports Negotiating Effectiveness

it is true in assembly line work. In 1994, it was professional baseball players who went on strike in protest over managements d...

Childhood Heroes and Athletes

In five pages this research paper discusses the child idolatry of athletes and why this respect is sometimes misplaced in a consid...

Pete Rose Gambling Case and Sports Management

for reinstatement to baseball. The paradox is that he wont do whats requires for him to be reinstated in the good graces of the ba...

Athletes and Drugs

In twenty pages this paper considers the drug use among certain athletes and the negative effects this has had upon professional s...

Professional Sports and Collective Bargaining

aimed at preventing a lockout or restrictive system if a collective bargaining agreement could not be reached. It would appear th...

Monetary Greed and Professional Athletes

In five pages this essay considers the motivation of monetary greed in professional sports particularly as it pertains to NBA bask...

Banning Steroids

In five pages this paper argues in favor of banning steroids which enhance athletic performance from any and all professional or O...

Team Logo Merchandise Marketing by Pro Sports

In six pages this report discusses how professional sports teams use logos on merchandise such as clothing and hats to market them...

U.S. and Japan Pro Sports

Named by the Japan Professional Sports Association as baseballs Promoter of the Year for bringing "excitement and enthusiasm" (Kob...

Gambling in Sports and the Pete Rose Betting on Baseball Case

In five pages this paper discusses gambling by athletes in professional sports in this consideration of the case involving former ...

Theorists Barry Glassner and Antonio Gramschi

there should be working class intellectuals, and that one way that these workers allowed themselves to be controlled was by not as...

Errant Professional Athletes and Image Enhancement

In ten pages this paper considers how crisis management can be successfully undertaken by professional sports teams with examples ...

Failure of the American Family as a Sociological Model

In six pages this paper discusses the various issues that have undermined the American nuclear family as a failed sociological mod...

Individual College Athlete Marketing

In five pages this paper examines the definition of amateur status by the NCAA in a consideration of how individual college are ma...

Taxpayers and the Unnecessary Burden of a Professional Sports Stadium

new stadiums that would either keep their pro teams or lure new ones. USA Today estimates that $4 of every $5 in stadium construct...

Professional Sporting Venues and Public Funds

is a mark of prestige throughout the country and, in many cases it is. Think of Salt Lake City, Utah. It is famous for the Great S...

Methodologies of Sociological Research

power, which indicate submissiveness, and so on....

Different Types of Sociological Research Approaches

those aspects (religion) and rather than offering alternatives, asks the subject to place religion on a sliding scale of importanc...

Book Review of Barbara Ehrenreich's Nickel and Dimed

been hired, almost on the spot. Her "almost on the spot" hire is a job with a hotel restaurant, from 2:00 to 10:00 p.m. for $2.43 ...

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...

Sports and Steroids

to articulate and enforce some type of punitive steroid policy. The current penalties for positive use are as follows: Offense/...