Playing For Money / NBA Basketball Players & Personal Greed
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This 5 page essay discusses professional athletes, particularly basketball players and their attitudes of selfishness and greed. The writer also discusses how superstar athletes may be nothing more than a mirror of the society that created them. Yet, despite it all, professional sports are still a passion in the U.S. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
Filename: Basketga.wps

Professional Sports Marketing Team Logo Merchandise
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This 6 page report discusses the ways in which professional sports teams market themselves through the sale of merchandise – hats, clothing, memorabilia, et al – with the team logo and identity. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
Filename: Teamlogo.wps

Recruitment of College Athletes
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This 5 page report the process and problems of recruiting college athletes. Whether or not the abuses can be controlled, who are the victims and what penalties should be imposed are also briefly covered. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
Filename: Colrec.wps

Spectator Violence At Major League Baseball Games
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This 5 page report discusses the incidence of violence in the stands at major league baseball games. The wtriter also examines the social factors that either encourage or support violent behavior at sporting events. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
Filename: Specviol.wps

Sports Commitment
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A 6 page paper on sport commitment involving the issues of sport enjoyment, involvement alternatives, personal investments, social constraints, and involvement opportunities. Each one of these areas of concern are discussed and defined in order to gain a more thorough understanding of the complex nature of sports psychology which is gaining much recognition. Details provided illustrate the many opportunities and levels of involvement that contribute to the issue of sports commitment. Bibliography lists 10 sources.
Filename: Sportsco.wps

Steroids Should Be Banned
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This past summer the baseball star, Mark McGwire, openly admitted that he was using a performance enhancing drug, a natural occurring steroid, androstenedione. The drug is available over the counter in many health and nutrition stores in the United States. This 5 page paper argues that the use of performance enhancing steroids should be banned from use by any professional (including Olympic) athlete, regardless of the type of sport or gender. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
Filename: Stoids.wps

The Boz / Applying Evaluative Paradigms to the Life of Brian Bosworth
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This 6 page paper applies three different paradigms to the life of athlete and self-prescribed “anti-hero” Brian Bosworth by evaluating the perspectives presented in his autobiography. This paper considers the trait approach to personality, a psychodynamic approach and a analytical approach to examining the life and perspectives of Bosworth as presented in the book “The Boz: Confessions of a Modern Anti-Hero.” No additional sources cited.
Filename: MHboz.wps

The Controversy Over the NCAA’s Baseball Bat Controversy
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This 6 page report discusses the controversy over the NCAA’s decision to limit the size and weight of aluminum bats and the implications that presents for baseball at bothe collegiate and professional levels. Bibliography lists 8 sources.
Filename: Basebat.wps

The Cost Of Major League Entertainment
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This is a 5 page paper that presents the economic realities of public funding for the construction of sport stadiums. It gives a short history of past funding sources. It then gives an overview of the costs incurred and explores examples of funding that was approved after the voters rejected the proposals. It concludes by citing the example of Green Bay, Wisconsin and their non-profit status as an alternative. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
Filename: Sportax.wps