Performance enhancers can be defined as "narcotic, hallucinogen, or stimulant that increases talent and quality of play". Amateur sport is defined as "any event played part time, especially unpaid or paid very little to perform". And drug can be defined as "a narcotic, stimu...

As sports has grown into a multi-billion dollar industry, there has been an explosion in the number of lawyers who specialize in sports law. There has been an understandably significant increase in the number of persons desiring to represent professional athletes. This increase can be explained by ...

The Need for Reform in Collegiate Sports The current institutional structure of intercollegiate athletics is attempting to maximize educational quality and athletic excellence simultaneously. Each of which will inevitably impinge on one another. Universities claim that their athletes are a...

It is six o'clock in the afternoon in a big college town. A young college basketball player is walking down the sidewalk with his teammates and enters the local McDonalds for a burger. The young basketball player reaches into his pocket and pulls out a hand full of lint. He then proceeds...

As college athletics grows and continues to bring large financial gain to universities and corporate sponsors, the debate over paying college athletes continues to grow. But while the debate between supporters and opponents increases across the country, the college athletics' governing body has not ...

For more than a century, hockey historians have found that accurately tracing the sports origin is not only a difficult task but, is virtual impossibility. Ice hockey is traceable to games played on fields as far back as nearly 2500 years ago. In 478 BC, a Greek soldier, Hemostocoles, built a wall i...

Baseball is one of the oldest and most popular sports in the United States. It is known as America's "national pastime" because of its strong tradition. It is competitively played with a hard ball and bat between two teams of nine players each. Even though this sport was developed ...

Concussions And You On a typical basis, George Fernandez is hit by sailing soccer balls, jabbed by elbows, is kicked by other players and, sometimes, flat-out knocked out cold. He has had so many concussions, he cannot remember some of them, which cause temporary lapses in the brain and...

The History of Baseball It is a game played everywhere, in parks, playgrounds, and prison yards, in back alleys and farmers fields, by small children and old men, raw amateurs and millionaire professionals. It is a leisurely game that demands blinding speed. It is the only game in which the defenc...

You know that feeling when you walk on to the field for the first game of the season, you know the stadium is packed but you can't hear anything. Your heart is beating fast, because you know this game is going to be intense, and everyone is watching you. This is when everyone really sees w...

Canadian track star Ben Johnson was denied his gold medal in the 1988 Olympics after he tested positive for anabolic steroids. This incident sparked worldwide attention to the extent of anabolic steroid use. To date, the International Olympic Committee has barred the use of seventeen anabolic ster...

In the area of collegiate sports, there have been numerous heated debates about the integrity of many things concerning the NCAA and how it handles legal and ethical issues. Two well renowned scholars tackle this issue in their co-authored book entitled "College Athletes for Hire, The Evol...

Professional wrestling is considered one of the most controversial and entertaining industries in America today. With a rich history of how wrestling evolved from sport to entertainment, how the business has been run, and the effects of professional wrestling in the present. Professional wrestlin...

Some of the most successful people in life have had to overcome disadvantages and obstacles that most others take for granted. I think Lance Armstrong is one of those successful people. Lisa, Lance's mother, knew things wouldn't be easy for him because she was only 17 when he was born and his fath...

Violence In Hockey In today's furious society, the use of physical force is often used to damage something or to injure a person. Violence is a reality in our everyday lives. We view it on television, in our neighborhoods, in schools, practically anywhere. But violence is now more often seen in spo...

College Student-Athletes Can be Compensated for Their Services to Universities. Every year nearly 330,000 college students don uniforms and become student-athletes for their respective schools (NCAA). These students participate in a wide variety of interests, from football to crew, cross country...

Surprising little has changed in sports since the Greek and Roman athletes competed for prizes in boxing, javelin- throwing, discus, jumping, wrestling, and pankration. Even as today, money was a motivator for competition. However, there were differences that a modern athlete would fine difficult...

Nigeria, "following nearly 16 years of military rule, adopted a new constitution in 1999, and a peaceful transition to civilian government was completed. The president faced the daunting task of rebuilding a petroleum-based economy, whose revenues had been squandered through corruption and mismanag...

Imagine working for a huge cooperation and bringing in millions of dollars for them but not receiving a penny for your work. This in many ways is what college athletes go through. This unfair rule the NCAA puts on the athletes that "work" for them and their school have led me to believe they shoul...

One reoccurring theme in many Ernest Hemingway writings lies in his portrayal of the battle between the hunter and the hunted. Hemingway has a true respect and admiration for the beasts he writes about, and at times represents himself as the animals in his works. Ernest Miller Hemingway was born a...

Paintball What is Paintball? Well paintball is a game played by two teams, both trying to eliminate the others' teammates. In order to be eliminated you must either be shot with a paintball on your marker or yourself or they can "bunker" you. That means that they get within ten fe...

Anabolic Steroids Anabolic steroids are synthetic coumpounds formulated to be like the male sex hormone testosterone. Many athletes use anabolic steroids male and female alike, such as body builders , weightlifters, baseball players, football players, swimmers, and runners. They do so bec...

With The Death of a Salesman during the winter of 1949 on Broadway, Arthur Miller began to live as a playwright who has since been called one of this century's three great American dramatists by the people of America. The dramatist was born in Manhattan in October 17, 1915, to Isadore and Agusta M...