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… — or football (or foosball or futbol), as the rest of the world outside the United States calls it — is surely the most popular sport in the world. Every four years, the world championship of soccer, the World Cup, is watched by literally…

… and the hard work that they do to achieve their goal of winning. We idolize them and wish we were more like them. What happens though when the realization sinks in that they are human too and that some of them do get greedy and selfish? A lot of…

… especially High School Basketball. Major Corporations are making a large profit on high school athletes, selling shoes (Nike, Adidas, etc.), making films (He Got Game, Hoop Dreams, etc.), and books (Sole Influence By Dan Wetzel, Raw Recruits,…

… behaviour, based upon the observation of nursery and primary school children. Note: To protect the identity of the children observed and mentioned in this report, their names have been changed. Background Much research has been done…

… this film than Alasdair MacIntyre’s notion of moral practice. In the text book Performance versus Results : A Critique of Values in Contemporary Sport, there is a section entitled : The Monsters of Emotivism. In this chapter, it is stated that emotivis…

… Hall of Fame because he bet on a few baseball games? The hits leader in major league baseball is banned from baseball, does that make any sense? Pete Rose deserves to be in the baseball hall of fame because of his actions on the field, not off. To…

… many people who are unfamiliar with taekwondo believe it to be a blood-thirsty and violent sport, those who are involved in taekwondo know that it is more than a sport, but an art and a way of life which teaches non-violence and a strict…

… of leisure, I decided to research a sport that my roommate recently got real involved in. Through his involvement in the sport, I really wanted to know more about it. In doing this paper it actually motivated myself to try the fast pasted sport of…

… go to any length to better themselves. Unfortunately, most of them choose the easy way out. By using performance enhancing drugs, athletes will remain one leg up over the competition. That is why, mandatory drug testing should be enforced on our pro…

… a growing traditional cultural heritage sport in Gulf Arab societies. An integrated approach is used in describing and analyzing the multiple aspects and functions of the races as an evolving cultural revival within the broad contexts of oil wealth,…