The Professional Football Player
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A 10 page paper which discusses various aspects of the professional football player. The paper examines education, training, position, and salary, as well as other aspects concerning the professional football player. Bibliography lists 25 sources.
Filename: RAfootbl.wps

The Rise to Fame in Boxing: The Importance of Agents and Contracts
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A 4 page overview of the factors affecting an amateur boxers climb to the professional arena and his welfare once he arrives there. This paper details the relationship between a boxer and his agent and emphasizes the importance of contracts. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
Filename: PPboxer.rtf

Tommy "The Duke" Morrison
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A 5 page paper which examines the life and the achievements of Tommy "The Duke" Morrison. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
Filename: RAthedke.rtf

Vince Lombardi
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A 10 page biographical paper of the legendary football coach. Vince Lombardi is commonly assumed to have been a rigid autocrat determined that everyone associated with him conform to his way of thinking, but in reality Lombardi sought to encourage the view of order, rules and discipline as providing the true path to real freedom. He demanded the best of everyone, which is what he gave of himself. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
Filename: KSLombardi.wps

Wage and Labor Issues in Baseball in the US From 1900
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This 3 page paper looks at Wage and labor issues in baseball in the US from 1900 to present times discussing the main issues pertaining to wage and labor issues over that time frame, including actions of the union, the impact of the reserve clause, strikes, lockouts, increases in wages and pension contribution and the shift of power in the employment relationship. The bibliography cites 3 sources.
Filename: TEbaseball.rtf

Why Performance Enhancing Drugs Should be Allowed
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This 5 page paper examines the issue related to the use of performance enhancing drugs, particularly as it respects Olympic athletes. Both sides of the issue are explored. The paper concludes that they should be allowed. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
Filename: SA710drg.rtf

Women in Sports
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A 26 page paper which discusses various aspects and concerns dealing with women in sports today. Issues addressed include a very close look at Martina Navratilova and her career, which helps to define many of the realities that face athletic women today. In addition the many psychological and sociological areas of involvement are discussed and further defined. Women sports have come a long way in the past few decades, but there is still a very long way to go if women are ever to be truly accepted into the field of sports. Bibliography lists 15 sources.
Filename: RAwomen.wps

“Raging Bull” and “When We Were Kings” -- Portrayals of Boxing and Boxers
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This 6 page report discusses and compares Martin Scorcese’s 1980 portrayal of Jake La Motta in “Raging Bull” with “When We Were Kings” (1996), an Oscar-winning documentary that tells the story of what was known in 1974 as the “Rumble in the Jungle.” It was a fight that pitted two of the greatest boxers the world has ever seen against one another -- Muhammad Ali and George Foreman. The report addresses what each film has to say about both the sport of boxing and the actual boxers. Bibliography lists 8 sources.
Filename: BWbullkg.rtf