Basketball, No Longer Just a Game When most people think about the NBA in today's society, they think, who cares, and it's just another game between insanely overpaid athletes. In a sense, they are right, athletes are overpaid. However, what people do not realize is the rich history behin...

INTRODUCTION The Amateur Athletic Foundation's 1989 study, "Gender Stereotyping in Televised Sports," received national attention in both the popular media and scholarly publications. The study has become required reading in several college and university courses. And, hundreds of copies of t...

Basketball was first introduced to Nova Scotia as early as 1895 but in the past thirty years the popularity of the sport has really taken off. The high concentration of universities in the province, the tradition and esteem of the high school programs, and the continued support from a large and kn...