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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...

Baseball's Color Barrier and Jackie Robinson

Astonishingly, he stole 40 bases and scored 113 runs (Olsen, 1974). From the beginning, Jackie Robinson proved himself not only ...

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...

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...

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...

Extreme Sports Participation and What Motivates It

In five pages this paper examines various theories associated with the motivations behind extreme sports' participation. Four sour...

Sports and the Use of Biomechanics

The writer examines the use of biomechanics in sports and focuses on accurate analysis and proper application of technology. The w...

Many Contrasts of Cassius 'Muhammad Ali' Clay

In five pages the sports' contributions of this African American heavyweight boxing champion are examined in terms of his many con...

Athletes and Sports

In twelve pages this paper discusses child development and achieving an identity through sports in a consideration of pressures, r...

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...

Brad Pitt and Why Women Find Him Appealing

In six pages this paper discusses Brad Pitt's adoring female fans and considers such films as Thelma and Louise, Meet Joe Black, I...

Vancouver Canucks and Hockey Community

In five pages this report discusses the communal aspects of hockey fans in a consideration of the Vancouver Canucks. Five sources...

Timelessness of the Grateful Dead

In ten pages a fan of the Grateful Dead's music discusses the classic band's influence and legacy. Six sources are cited in the b...

Controversial Musical Artist R. Kelly

him or helping him . . . and why. What is likely to happen is that well see what weve pretty much always seen; which is that famo...

Reception Theory and Films Star Wars and Star Trek

viewers (Sklar, 1998). In this regard, reception studies seek empirical evidence, either "historical or ethnographic research," th...

Singer and Songwriter Ani DiFranco

fragmentation of her family, the choices she watched her friends making, and the state of life in her hometown and her country (An...

Fan Culture Ideology and Music

dominant and subordinate ideologies, cultural ideology as a whole is something which exists in a multiplicity and its disparate el...

Jenkins' and Massumi's Look at Popular Culture

let the media do what it wants. Another question looms large. How does politics invade the culture? It seems that today, politics ...

Downfall of Napster Inc.

infringers to locate items to copy. Questions 1. Based on the facts in the Napster case, who do you think should have control over...

Superstition in Baseball

Athletes that are motivated with a particularly profound need to succeed seek to control events and situations by any means possib...

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...

Achievements of Baseball Legend Ted Williams

baseballs "magic numbers" (InfoPlease.com, nd; Baseball Almanac, nd). He was the last player to bat .400. He was also selected for...

'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...

Cultural Producers and Fans

literary authors, but also came to include all aspects of media industry, including artists (i.e., painters, sculptors, architects...

Wisconsin Sen. Joseph McCarthy and McCarthyism's Damage

censured by Congress, McCarthy was the instigator of the investigations of so-called Communists within the government of the Unite...

Human Relationships and Baseball

more millions than they already receive (Kaplan, 2002). A comment from Kaplan sums up how many fans feel about baseball players: "...

Longevity of the Star Trek 'Franchise'

evolve? What is the connection or what is the appeal. Is it truly a matter of fantasy or some form of a desperate attempt to be pa...

Trekkies, Russell and Black Experience

describes the Tiger beetle, which is "often brightly patterned" in a manner that looks "like small jewels" (Russell 222). Her desc...