Many people believe that drug use in professional athletics is not a serious problem, however it is more widespread and serious than people think. In professional athletics the use of drugs is looked upon as somewhat of a serious problem, but is also very discrete and low key. Every once in a whi...

With the increase of media coverage over that last few decades, the responsibilities of professional athletes have become much greater than simply sports related. These men and women have been exposed by the media in good and bad ways, but it seems that their true stories are sometimes being fli...

Isn't It Just A Game? In 2004 the Bahamian Olympic 400 meter Gold Medalist Tonique- Williams Darling shared a million dollar TDK Golden League jackpot with Christian Olsson, after they won their events in each of the six Golden leagues. Darling's earning for the Go...

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 ...

VIOLENCE IN SPORTS "...Steeler running back Rocky Bleier, whose war time experiences, not so oddly, offer some insights. To Bleier, there are interesting parallels between survival in war and survival in the NFL. 'The experiences with war injuries and football injuries are quite the ...

Today's professional athletes make astronomical salaries and their only going one direction. Up. Every year we hear we hear about how a professional athlete just signed a contract worth a record (insert ridiculous amount here) million dollars. Then about the same time the very next year we hear abou...

Going down a lonely highway, he's the only one on the road. He sees a sign that says "Get Ready," and it makes him scratch his head. As he keeps wondering what the sign means, he can feel his body getting hot. He's getting frustrated at nothing at all. He comes up to anot...

The problems faced by college athletics range from the athlete becoming "professionalized" to the weight placed on the "scoreboard" to the commercialism of college sports. Until the NCAA and individual colleges' athletic departments can formulate a plan to "de-professi...