... aspects of the season. The first is the ultimate acceptance of the players of the opposite race, as teammates. Once again, strong leadership leads to strong performance. The star linebacker, Gary, forced the white members of the team to play their best, despite their feelings of the African-American players. On the other side of the color line, the star African ... where another tradition that happens in sports occurs. The players bonded, as only teammates bond. They proved that the players, who play hard together, are not only players, but brothers. Gary and Julius established a friend...

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... to address the imbalance between the large- and small-market teams. Still, the growing chasm between the proverbial haves and have-nots in the NHL is a worry for NHL commissioner Gary Bettman. While he hesitates to use the words "salary cap," it's clear Bettman will attempt to hammer some form of wage control from the NHL Players' Association when the current ... free-agent signings is an indication that teams aren't losing money. If you're confused at this point, consider some comments from two other sources. The first is NHL commissioner Gary Bettman. He has spent the past season tell...

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... -needed drug testing policy there are still many skeptics. The testing policy that baseball implemented is said to be the laughingstock of the drug experts. New York University medical professor Gary Wadler states, "You would have to flunk an IQ test to flunk it" (Verducci, 1). Dr. Wadler is not the only person who thinks the testing policy is a fluke. Charles Yesalis ... ...

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... -needed drug testing policy there are still many skeptics. The testing policy that baseball implemented is said to be the laughingstock of the drug experts. New York University medical professor Gary Wadler states, "You would have to flunk an IQ test to flunk it" (Verducci, 1). Dr. Wadler is not the only person who thinks the testing policy is a fluke. Charles Yesalis ... ...

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... , as well as other large city teams (Staudohar 8). Two sports presently have salary caps set that have no circumstances for different teams or players. These sports are baseball and hockey. Gary Bethman, Commissioner of the National Hockey League, offered an idea to the NBA commissioner concerning the leagues salary cap (Staudohar 4). On March 31, 1983, the first salary cap in sports ... ...

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... ,000 former East German swimmers have found that they have liver damage, diabetes, cancers and other serious effects of forced steroid drugging by their national trainers." (Wadler, 7/13/03) Dr. Gary Wadler, consultant to the U.S. Department of Justice on anabolic-androgenic steroid use, stresses that "unlike almost all other drugs, all steroid based hormones have one unique characteristic - their dangers may ... ...

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... just don't get broken." Of course almost every single one baseball players accused of taking steroids denies it. A San Francisco Chronicle report in February claimed that Barry Bonds, Jason Giambi, Gary Sheffield and other professional athletes received steroids from BALCO, a San Francisco-area nutritional supplements lab that is under federal investigation. The report helped spark a controversy as spring training opened, that ... ...

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... newer model looked oddly super-sized. Then came the federal investigation into the Bay Area Laboratory Co-Operative, Bonds testified before a grand jury last fall. So did Jason Giambi and Gary Sheffield, this caused a different type of gossip and when training camps opened this year, so did a new kind of spring scrimmage. These actions were publicized so much that the president ... ...

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