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performance as a former American professional basketball player by young and old generations. Children all over have grown up watching Michael Jordan with his incredible basketball skills and even using his slogan of “Be like Mike” in basketball games they play of their own. Jordan has won several awards for his performance on the basketball court and has set many records that are still unbeaten. Michael Jordan’s most popular endorsement was Nike Air Jordan tennis shoes, which have been popular…

The crack of a bat. Uproar from the crowd. Fans cheering as their favorite player makes the shot that irrefutably leads the team to victory. These are the sounds you will likely hear in any stadium or field as you watch the players coalesce and exhibit the athleticism that they have spent their entire lives honing. In today’s society, sports have become an indispensable element in aspects that make our nation unparalleled - uniting and defining us by transcending nationalities, backgrounds, and…

activities rather than playing competitive sports such as basketball. This supports what Levin (1990) statement, that when women are represented in a competitive way, it is done in a way that is “publicly acceptable”, playing an individual sport such as tennis, rather than team sports. Additionally supporting the results from Cuneen & Sidwell, (1998)’s research, which found that in adverts featuring activities, men were represented in roles that stood out more often than women were. Women were…

regulate blood flow is obstructed, a patient can die in as little as three minutes” (“Head”). Second Impact Syndrome is the reason why after a player is concussed; he has to sit out for the rest of the game to prevent further injury. Sometimes, in professional sports, the player has to go to a special room so he doesn’t become distracted or strain his brain further. Most players in high school sports have experienced injuries and some have attempted to play through them. In 2008, a 16-year old…

Everyone should know the 1883 classic book “Pinocchio”. Later adapted into a movie in the 1940s, Pinocchio follows the story of Geppetto, a woodworker who upon seeing a falling star, wishes the puppet creation he had made would become a “real boy”. As the night fell and hours went by, the “blue fairy” grants Geppetto's wish and assigns an anthropomorphic cricket otherwise known as Jiminy Cricket, to be his conscience, the job of helping Pinocchio learn right from wrong weighing on his shoulders.…

of endless possibilities. My purpose for pursuing a Doctorate of Philosophy in Sport Psychology is to positively influence the career development of student athletes through applied practice and research contributions. My collegiate career as a tennis player discontinued abruptly at the end of my junior year at Spelman College due to the termination of the athletic department. I was…

Drugs has been used in medical field to cure, diagnose, treat and prevent disease but athletes should be alert because certain drugs or performance - enhancing drugs (PED) may contains an illegal substance that had been ban by World-Anti Doping Agency (WADA). Pressure faced by the athletes to perform better than others lead them to use drugs in order to enhance their performance. WADA had published an annual List of Prohibited Substance and Method (list) including the substances and methods…

The National Collegiate Athletic Association, or NCAA, regulates various conferences and athletes within their affiliated leagues. The NCAA considers itself as a non-profit organization, yet the company runs very similar to a business. The NCAA has reportedly generated “over $11 billion in annual revenues” (Benedykciuk 2). Two of the most marketable sports, football and basketball, generate the most revenue based on viewership and advertisements. The athletes whom share a large part in…

onto participating in college sports and of those 2%, only another 2% will move to professional sports. According to the NCAA (National Collegiate Athletic Association), there are eight million high school kids playing sports and out of that only 480,000 students will play at the collegiate level. This means that although coaches may build up the impression that there will be many students moving onto professional sports but in reality, there will only be a couple students from each school doing…

The counterculture movement known as punk defies definition in any concrete terms. Beginning as a perverse fashion statement in the 1970s, punk quickly became something much more politically charged than many initially anticipated. It was a movement that defined itself through a series of negatives: it was more easily seen as what it wasn’t than what it was. Punk contrasted itself to the 1960s, the hippie movement, and the rock’n’roll scene that had established itself; it was opposed to the…