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Creatine, 2002.
Examines the benefits of creatine and other whey protein supplements on the human body.
2,890 words (approx. 11.6 pages), 7 sources, APA, $ 85.95
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With the renewed emphasis on longevity, good health and performance, much public attention and scientific research ? and commercial activity ?has been focused on the role of creatine and whey protein on bodybuilding and health, particularly of athletes. This paper examines the effects of whey protein on the body. It discusses findings of research done on athletes to show how whey protein improves their performance. The paper also explores the useful applications from ingredients derived from whey protein.
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"Separate researches on the value of creatine on muscular and nervous diseases discovered its probable value in alleviating symptoms, such as muscle weakness and fatigue, rather than treat the diseases. These diseases include Lou Gehrig?s disease, or amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, and congestive heart failure. A study on mice at the Harvard Medical School and Cornell University bolstered previous studies and suggested that creatine may protect against Lou Gehrig?s disease, having observed its efficacy at twice as that of an FDA-prescription drug, Riluzole, for treating the disease (Annussek). The usual dosage of creatine is 10-30 grams daily in several doses for four to six days, and a maintenance dose of 2-5 grams daily. There are as yet no known harmful effects of ingesting creatine, but kidney patients, young people below 16 and pregnant and breastfeeding women are cautioned against taking it for lack of sufficient medical findings of safety on their group."
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The "Double-Goal Coach", 2002.
This paper is a review of research stating that a good coach is a "Double-Goal Coach": Coaching skills and winning games plus assisting athletes to develop strong and constructive character traits.
4,310 words (approx. 17.2 pages), 16 sources, MLA, $ 114.95
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This paper illustrates how coaches sustain professional standards of behavior, elucidate their expert functions and compulsions, recognize suitable conscientiousness for their manners and adjust their means to the requirements of dissimilar athletes in the high school. The author believes that recruitment judgments for high school institutions must be based on a precise fortitude that the athletes are critically dedicated to getting an education and has or will expand their academic skills and character to do well. The paper stresses that successful coaches ought to try and build the following vital characters: Purpose, skill, understanding, character and habits.
Table of Contents
Introduction
State the Problem
Purpose of Study
Importance of Study
Scope of Study
Rationale of Study
Overview of Study
Review of Related Literature.
Methodology
The Approach Utilized
Data Gathering and Utilizing Method
Comment on the Validity of the Data
Comment on the Originality and Limitations of Data
Summary
Summary Conclusion & Recommendation
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"Research reveals that the high school coaches can improve capability in teamwork, collaboration, management ability, interpersonal ability and strength of mind. While participating in the athletics and training, a lot of high school athletes gain knowledge from their high school coaches of the worth of justice and the idea of right and wrong. Coaches allow young athletes to learn appropriate physical forcefulness under a supervised and restricted state of affairs and give high school athletes with an opening to find out how to interrelate properly with grown-ups and influencing people other than their parents. Coaches also can encourage friendships amid athletes and families across ethnic, racial, and socioeconomic groupings."
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Sports Fans, 2002.
Discusses the impact sports has on its fans and the impact fans have on sport.
2,370 words (approx. 9.5 pages), 9 sources, MLA, $ 72.95
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This paper discusses the psychological make up of a sports fan and shows that it is much more complicated than its first glance suggests. The payback for being a sports fan includes the feeling of belonging, a better sense of well being, the ability to identify with the success of someone else and the ability to escape stresses in real life. The paper shows that sports fans around the world behave as consumers in both positive and negative ways which lead marketing departments scrambling to put their finger on keeping it profitable. Sports fans of all kinds identify and lock into their sport or team. Through their own actions they continue to drive profits up while relishing the togetherness being a fan affords them. The paper shows that for sports marketing departments to increase profits, it is important that they focus on making the group experience a positive one for fans.
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"Tailgate parties, thematic approaches to office parties and the selling out of merchandise are all examples of the psychological stronghold that being a sports fan holds for the person who becomes one.
Sports fan behavior has been studied since the 1970s (Nelson pg 18).
The social identity theory has long since been attached to sport fan behavior to explain how self esteem and evaluation can be elevated by identifying with the success of someone else. This is because many fans will discuss the athletic wins in the first person including statements such as ?We played well? but when it came to losses the fan moves back to third person with statements such as ?They lost last week? (Nelson pg 18) This behavior provides an understanding of what draws sports fans to become fans. They feel success through the success of the athletes and can push losses off on the team because they are not on the team themselves."
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New York City and the 2012 Summer Olympics, 2002.
This paper is a persuasive essay about the benefits of the possibility of New York City being selected as the site for the 2012 Summer Olympics.
1,220 words (approx. 4.9 pages), 0 sources, $ 41.95
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This paper argues that although there is no guarantee that New York City will be chosen to host the Olympics;the world community is very sympathetic to what happened to New York in 2001, and New York may well be chosen to host this event. The author believes that the positive energy, financial gains and overall improvements to the city will outweigh the negative effects on life in an already-congested city and the risk of another terrorist attack. The paper concludes that the most compelling reason for hosting the Summer 2012 Olympics in New York City may be its capacity to help heal a city that has suffered such a devastating blow as 9/11.
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"While the Summer Olympics will only last three weeks, many permanent benefits will come to the city. The city?s public transportation system will be upgraded, made more attractive and possibly expanded. New York City has one of the most efficient public transportation systems in the world, but currently looks worn and tired. Trains and stations will be cleaned, and other cosmetic improvements such as better lighting will benefit New Yorkers long after the Olympics are over."
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Utilitarianism and Sport, 2002.
A discussion of utilitarianism and how it can be related to sports.
1,225 words (approx. 4.9 pages), 2 sources, MLA, $ 41.95
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This paper provides a brief insight into utilitarianism, the philosophy that stems from the teachings of John Stuart Mills and Jeremy Bentham which holds that even when the motivation behind an act is bad the consequences can be good. The purpose of utility is to maximize pleasure or eliminate pain. It examines how the theory of utilitarianism can be related to sports by looking at the pleasure and the pain that an athlete and a sports fan gets from participating in and watching sports. It looks at how in the case of the sports fan, pleasure is increased when the team that they are rooting for wins. On the other hand, the fan will experience pain if their team looses. It evaluates how in sports there is no way to know the outcome of the game and so there is no way to completely eliminate the feeling of pain.
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"Utilitarianism also ignores the concept of passion. Passion is something that can not be contained and sometimes people will seek to fulfill their passion even if it does not result in pleasure. Athletes tend to be very passionate people and feel a need to engage in the sports that they love. Many of these athletes will never become great athletes and change history like Jesse Owens and Cathy Freeman?they simply have a passion that drives them. The passion of these athletes may not lead them to the happiness that utilitarianism exerts but it will provide them with their own since of happiness and well being. Many believe that personal happiness is more important than simply trying to make everyone around you happy. Utilitarians seem to believe that the absence of pain automatically creates pleasure. However in the case of the sports pain is pleasure because it allows the athlete to live out their passion."
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A History of Hockey, 2002.
A brief history of the sport of hockey, popular in both the U.S. and Canada.
985 words (approx. 3.9 pages), 5 sources, MLA, $ 34.95
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This paper presents a brief history of the game known as hockey. The paper begins with a background of the game and the word hockey itself despite very few documented facts or recordings of the actual origins. The paper includes a description of the transformation of the original game to the well known sport of today. The writer acknowledges the various versions of grass and ice, popular in both the U.S. and Canada. The paper concludes with up to date information on the game today.
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"Hockey got international exposure in the late 1800s. In 1895, college students from the U.S. and Canada played first ever series of four international matches ? Canadians were victorious in all. Canada made its mark in the world ranking of hockey when it won the first world and Olympic championships in 1920. Early 1900s saw some innovations in the game. Goal net was introduced in 1900. Blue lines to divide zones were added in 1911 and three 20 minute periods were introduced in the 60 minute game."
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Concussions, 2002.
This paper describes the required first-line care for head injuries, especially concussions, during athletic events.
1,810 words (approx. 7.2 pages), 5 sources, MLA, $ 58.95
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This paper explains a variety of evaluation techniques, explanations and prescribed resting times for athletic head injuries. The author points out that injuries to the head and neck are particularly harmful because they are largely incapable of regeneration; therefore, trainers must be able to see the signs and symptoms and to know the necessary response. The paper states that athletic trainers cannot stop an injury from happening but can prepare by having an organizational structure for when an injury occurs. Includes tables and an "Evaluation Scheme for Head Injuries". Endnotes.
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"In order to understand how to take care of a concussion we must understand and agree as to what exactly is a concussion. A working definition has been proposed by the Committee of Head Injury Nomenclature of the Congress of Neurological Surgeons. A concussion, as defined by the committee, is ?a clinical syndrome characterized by immediate and transient post-traumatic impairment of neural functions, such as alterations of consciousness, disturbance of vision, equilibrium, etc., due to brain stem involvement.?This can simply be interpreted as any traumatically induced alteration in mental status. Recent studies have suggested that the effects of a concussion can be cumulative. Evidence also has came about that a athlete suffering an initial cerebral concussion is four times more likely to suffer another concussion than a person who has never had one."
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Hoosiers vs. Blue Chips: A Film Comparison, 2002.
This paper looks the the two films "Hoosiers" and "Blue Chips," discussing the lessons of winning and loosing with dignity and ethics.
1,946 words (approx. 7.8 pages), 6 sources, MLA, $ 61.95
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The writer looks closely at the thematic similarity between the two films. The paper looks into the popularity of these films, including professional reviewer?s opinions of the movies.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
The Coach
The Big Game
Key Players
Outside Pressures
Professional Reviews
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"In Blue Chips, there are four key players we are involved with as viewers. First, we are introduced to the star senior, Tony who is played by Anthony C. Hall. He is the classic stereotype player who has trouble with his academics; after all, ?you do more than watch television? in TV class. The next three key players are all new recruits Coach Bell is trying to acquire for the team. Butch (Anfernee 'Penny' Hardaway) and Ricky (Matt Nover) are high school seniors. Butch is actively looking to be recruited and his mother has a list of demands as payment for his letter of intent. Ricky, the farm boy, isn?t sure if he want to go to college, but he?s willing to go for the right reasons; girls and fame. Neon, the third recruit, never actually finished high school, but is very intelligent. We see this when he scores high enough on his GRE to be admitted to college without a high school diploma. Neon doesn?t have any demands for recruitment; his main concern is whether or not he?s happy in college. The players come together as a winning team, but it is an empty, unmoral win to Coach Bell."
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Yankees-Red Sox Rivalry, 2002.
A history of the rivalry between two baseball teams-- the Yankees and the Red Sox.
1,660 words (approx. 6.6 pages), 5 sources, MLA, $ 53.95
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This paper discusses the rivalry between and stiff competition between the baseball teams from Boston and New York City, the Red Sox and the Yankees. It examines the root causes of this rivalry which dates back to 1920 when Harry Frazee, the ?unlucky? owner of Red Sox, sold Babe Ruth to the New York Yankees for $100,000 and never won a World Series again. This is now known as the Curse of the Bambino which has badly affected the Red Sox performance and fans are keenly awaiting a strong comeback 84 years after the team won its last major championship. It evaluates the games and decisions over the years since 1920, which have served as catalysts for this enduring rivalry and how Red Sox needs to get over this curse jinx if they truly want to beat Yankees and reduce the impact of this long and fierce rivalry.
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"Since that fateful Bambino trade, New York Yankees has maintained its domination in the field of baseball. Not only do they play skillfully, they also have the right attitude towards the game. Apart from that they have the psychological edge over Red Sox that is backed by a wonderful record. A rivalry, which was initiated by Babe Ruth, was gave a enduring touch by other great players including Bucky Dent whose home run hit in 1978 occupies a major place in the successful history of Yankees."
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Sport Leadership, 2002.
This paper analyzes a multi-dimensional model of sport leadership.
1,432 words (approx. 5.7 pages), 10 sources, MLA, $ 47.95
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The concept of leadership has gained a large amount of attention in recent years, as sports have increased in popularity and researchers have placed an emphasis on determining the relationship between leaders, teams and performance. This paper examines the Multidimensional Model of Sport Leadership which states that optimal performance and satisfaction are achieved when leader's required, preferred and actual behaviors are consistent. The paper also discuses the many studies which have been conducted to try to develop or expand the knowledge of the topic of sport leadership.
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"Chelladurai?s research proposed the Multidimensional Model of Leadership, in which the characteristics of the leader and group members interact with situational factors, like the athletic program philosophy. Therefore, the specific characteristics of an effective leader are hypothesized to differ as a function of context. Thus, the sport leader characteristics that are the most effective for male basketball players may be different than the characteristics of effective leaders on a women's swim team.
A leader is one of the most important aspects of an organization. The major task of an athletic trainer is to get employees to perform their best. An athletic trainer, such as a coach, must complete successfully implement training schedules, and provide competing athletes with the skills needed to target the training objects. In addition, to handle a team, a leader must act as a friend, consultant, manager, psychologist, and funds collector of athletes."
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