The median household income in the United States of America is just over $54.000 per year, an above average car-salesman can make up to $70.000 per year plus bonus, a lawyer with 11+ years of experience makes an average of $170.000 per year and the highest paid type of doctor averages just over $500.000 per year. On the other hand, for the 2010-2011 season, the average income for an NFL player is $1.9million per year, for an NHL player it is $2.4million per year, for an MLB player it is $3.34million per year and for an NBA player it is $5.15million per year. ... Rashard Lewis earned $19million...

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Football has grown to be an integral part of American culture. Unlike many other iconic sports in America, football grew its popularity in the collegiate setting prior to evolving into a professional sport. ... The rapid growth of the National Basketball Association (NBA) led to an increased interest in intercollegiate basketball game and many NBA stars were recruited from college.   The NBA grappled with the challenges of youthful talent and recently set an age limit that stopped players from joining a professional basketball team as soon as they left high school." ... In the arena of colleg...

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Introduction Athletes have been taking performance-enhancing drugs in different forms for centuries; the furthest dated supplement used to increase performance was used in Ancient Greece, when they would ingest doop with the hopes of increasing their performance and becoming some of the first Olym...

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How did Vince McMahon form Hulk Hogan into an American icon during the 1980's? ... For example, Vince McMahon utilizes heel heat (a negative crowd response) just as much as he tries to get a positive crowd response; "the greatest heel heat was generated by wrestlers portraying stereotypical roles on American enemies-whether it be Nazi Germany, Japan, the Soviet Union, or later on, Iran or Iraq. ... In previous years, Slaughter had often been the actor through whom American political muscle was deployedBut the Slaughter that appeared in 1990...had become disillusioned with his count...

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