... things of that nature. When you pair it with sports such as soccer, basketball, and baseball you think about how those too mix. With sports all we see are all our favorite players and how good they look playing the game that they love so much. We never think about how or where they ... came from. We never think about what goes on behind the sense of the MBL or the NBA. Since there are a wide range of sports to focus on we are going to focus specifically on the National Basketball Association ... in the US. (The New Yorker pB2). More than Four hundred million people globally follow the N...

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... found the intensity that drives people to play sports. One of the most recent electrifying events that shows women expressing their love for the game, regardless of which game, is when Brandi Chastain tore her jersey off after the United States women's soccer team won the Women's World Cup final. After this ... president of the United States, Bill Clinton, enjoyed the USA victory at the World Cup. The women's World Cup victory had more fans watching than Game 7 of the 1999 Stanley Cup Finals. With 90,000 fans present for the event and another 657,000 tuned in on ESPN at home, the ... be...

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... eight years before the famous Rosa Parks bus incident.("Race" 1) Also, 1966 was the year that Texas Western won the first national champion in basketball with five black starters. That was a year before Thurgood Marshall was appointed to the Supreme Court.("Race" 1) As one can see, these are ... how can you say that black coaches must have superior performances to be a coach in the National Football League. It is not just football coaches though, basketball coaches that are African-American include the coaches at Georgia, Mississippi, Memphis, Miami, Houston, New Orleans, and Atlanta(Whi...

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... The poll stated that 49% believe that college sports gambling should be illegal and 47% believe that it should not. Strikingly, college basketball fans are stuck on 48% on both stand-points. The possibility of abolishing gambling on college sports is not very likely nor does ... was Bill Bradley, a former basketball star and Democratic Senator from New Jersey. Bradley expressed, "state-sponsored sports betting could change forever the relationship between the players and the game, and the game and the fans. Sports would become the gamblers" game and not the fans" game, and athletes woul...

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... was an all-state soccer player in high school before he signed to play professional baseball. Deion Sanders, football and baseball professional, was an all-state basketball player in high school. All-Star pitcher Tom Glavine was so accomplished in ice hockey that the NHL drafted him out of high school. Jackie Joyner-Kersee was ... in high school before becoming an Olympic gold medallist in track. And Cynthia Cooper, the two-time MVP of the WNBA, didn't even pick up a basketball until she was 16"(R. Wolff "Don't" 1) The point is that if your child is an excellent athlete with the desire to...

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... (WNBA) only started a couple years back. Even though the WNBA is not as popular as the National Basketball Association (NBA), it is still out there for everyone to see. Programs such as the broadcasting of a WNBA game show how equal male and females are. The WNBA shows how much dedication women have, and that they can play sports very well. In order ... to be a basketball player on a team, one must be strong, persistent and willing to try. The WNBA shows that ... have to face; there are many stereotypes that women in sports have to knock down, so the pubic can see that they can play th...

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... (WNBA) only started a couple years back. Even though the WNBA is not as popular as the National Basketball Association (NBA), it is still out there for everyone to see. Programs such as the broadcasting of a WNBA game show how equal male and females are. The WNBA shows how much dedication women have, and that they can play sports very well. In order ... to be a basketball player on a team, one must be strong, persistent and willing to try. The WNBA shows that ... have to face; there are many stereotypes that women in sports have to knock down, so the pubic can see that they can play th...

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... visualizing himself standing on a podium receiving a medal (Horst). John Calipari, the New Jersey Nets' head coach who spent three years as an assistant basketball coach at Pitt before catapulting into the national spotlight by rebuilding the University of Massachusetts into a national power, coined (and has since copyrighted) a ... to win is a powerful motivating force in athletics, as it is in all of life. No one wants to lose a fight, or even a game, let alone a championship. The third area of what motivates today's star athletes is competition. The thrill of competing against another...

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... most positive outcome that the media has brought to the sports arena is its widening promotion to sports fans composing of different nationalities. Making the game more global and not just locally and nationally popular. Now people all over the world can watch such sporting events live and sometimes delayed ... NHL/F1/World Cup/ and other sporting events. For example, when I was living in the Philippines, local television would not show all the NBA basketball games. Since scores are not posted on the newspaper or any other type of media, what I would do is check the scores on the interne...

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... team. As an amateur athlete on the NCAA level for example you naturally a hard worker because you are playing for the love of the game and not getting paid. When people gamble on a sport I believe it is fine, but when gambling effects the sport in a negative way ... www.ncaa! .org, "A study by the University of Cincinnati of 648 Division I intercollegiate men's basketball and football respondents indicated that 25.5% had gambled money on other college sporting events, 3.7% had gambled money on a game in which they had played, and that 0.5% received money from a gambler for not playing wel...

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... frustrations is violence. Researches regarding European soccer violence have also identified a hard core of people who see fighting as an integral part of going to a game, who are led by "proven fighters"; frequently with local hooligan gang connections and a record of violence not related to sport (Taylor, 2000). These people ... coach gets fired. So there is often more at stake than just a game result. Even the scoring level of games can affect the level of violence displayed on and off the field. In a high-scoring sport such as basketball an individual referee's decision is not seen ...

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... has turned sports into more of a business than a game. I have gone to many different sports in person; I have been to every high school football game that my high school played my four years there. I also have attended pro football, basketball, and baseball. I have seen minor league baseball and ... hockey in person as well. My mother has been to many games as well, she has been to high school and college games, hockey, golf and soccer. My grand father has been to high school football, basketball ... , boxing, minor league baseball, and almost everything else, because he is a media photo...

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... more women's sports being broadcast on the television now then ever before. It use to be that the women's NCAA basketball championship game was the only game shown, now the entire tournament is shown on ESPN and ESPN 2 with the final four game on open broadcast channels such as CBS or NBC. For the longest time men and women had their respective sports that ... might think of them as. I will admit that earlier in my life I was not too crazy about women's sports, basketball in particular. I thought that the women's game was so much slower than the men game and that women could not possibl...

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... would have to either go to a sporting event or read it in the newspaper to find out about the outcome of a baseball, football, and a basketball game, and a tennis and a boxing match. 1920 was when sporting events were brought through spark transmitters, code, and the converted telephone (microphone). In 1921, ... Corsairs defeated the Philadelphia Pirates. Until the 1920's, there were only written descriptions of the games, but with the beginning of radio, sportscasters made the game come alive. By talking through a microphone, sportscasters back then painted a picture with their words by...

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... those inside of the sport view gambling as worse than those outside the sport, as those on the inside see it hurting the integrity of the game. There has been recent talk of lifting Rose's ban, if he would admit to gambling (which he has not yet done), apologize for his ... by bookies who trick the kids into believing that it is okay to gamble as long as they only cover the spread, but still win their game. (Toohey, "Study Shows High Incidence of College - Athlete Gambling" 2) Over the years more kids have been misled by bookies than they have ... has, on occasion, placed lines on such...

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... that the women's volleyball team cannot take off their shirts in the gym. I cannot count the number of times I have seen the male basketball players play with their shirts off; there is not a rule against it except in a game during their season. Furthermore, as exemplified in "Fiero," women were condemned for speaking up and voicing their opinions. Behavioral expectations also stereotype women ... behavior. However, females are slowly, but surely trying to shed the stereotypes. In the building that I coached the girls in, there were two gyms. In one gym, boys were playing basketball and...

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... these sports figures as "idols" who are invincible. And because so many people get emotionally invested while watching sports and become so involved in the game, sports consequently holds a great importance to them in their lives. As Richard Harris Jackson states, "the enjoyment we experience emotionally from witnessing the success ... to that, in the public's eye, Mantle was a Yankee slugger who was considered to be a hero to anyone who saw him play the game with power and grace. Bouton's book became an instant bestseller and (coupled with the proliferation of media outlets such as cab...

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... the best rules that make the sport fair on both sides. Rules in sports change at several times to preserve the sport. For example, basketball banned goaltending (swatting the ball away after it has reached the highest point) when players became more athletic and tall. They are capable to ... were due to drug enhancing once, twice, or twenty times. This does not matter. The athlete was still cheating, questioning the integrity of game and the accomplishments of players. The athletes who are currently inducted into the Hall of Fame achieved this accomplishment strictly on merits of their s...

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Sports and Violence: Dirty Play or Criminal Acts? Imagine you are watching a high school basketball game. The competition is fierce, the clock is running down, and the coaches are red faced and screaming at the players. Suddenly, your attention is ... the coach denied making that statement. Limon's case has fueled debate over whether athletes should be held accountable in criminal court for what they do in a game(Shannon,2000). This is just one example of what is happening in the realm of sports in recent days. According to Dr. Brenda Bredemeier, sports psychology consultant ... he would ...

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... Wieberg again reports that, "Only 14 [schools] were operating in the black last year."" The only two sports that make the big money are football and basketball. Baseball, hockey, volleyball, soccer, swimming, softball, and other varsity sports play many games and travel quite a bit, but these sports do not have the ... models for many young people. College athletes become so popular they turn into household names. They are household names and are college kids playing a game. Stores sell their jerseys with their numbers on the back and ESPN spends just as much time talking about college ...

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... the substantial salaries professional athletes do (estimates show as high as ninety percent of student athletes never participate professionally). To substantiate this point follow the path of the Arkansas men's basketball team. During the 1994 through 1997 seasons not a single player completed their graduation requirements, and thusly, none of them received a college degree. The team's roster consisted of thirteen players whom ... were all attending the university on fully paid sports scholarship. In 1997 the team won the collegiate sports highest award, the Division One Basketball Tou...

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... they can get people to buy anything. The sports star that advertisers use is Michael Jordan if they use him they can sell anything because every young up and coming basketball player wants to be like Mike. Sports stars are good with selling shoes and other sports apparel. All these thing are apart of there strategies and they know that things ... a soft an caring side in which they showcase another talent that the athlete they chose has. For example, Lefton says " thus, creative with Hill and Stackhouse cuts from them playing basketball to one playing the piano as the other sings"(6). P...

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... falling" (23). As a boy Tony tried organized sports and did not like the team thing. "When I was 7 I joined little league basketball and baseball. My dad, with his usual enthusiasm, became coach of my little league baseball team and I played Mahoney 2 the game with my usual enthusiasm (24)." But he did not do well as a team that's why he axels in skateboarding because ... ...

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... -athletes will lose their right to play just for being in the presence of alcohol or drugs (Ogden). As it stands, athletes caught actually drinking or doing drugs face a two-game or two-week suspension from play (Ogden). Misbehavior is always present in sports and fans can be aware of that. But what are the rights and needs of the fans ... goals while missing a respectable amount of games (Globus). Another example could be former Olympian Wilma Rudolph. Born with polio, doctors said that it could prevent her from walking. She played basketball and ran track at 13 and competed in the 56 O...

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Millions of people watch sports contests such as baseball, basketball and football everyday. None of those millions want to see an unfair game. By letting athletes take the easy way out and not making them work hard to reach their peak performance is not only hurting the athlete but also letting those who ... ...

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