"Players are paid millions in the NBA...." ("Coach K Says Turning Pro Early Hurts in Many Ways"). College basketball players dream of making millions in the National Basketball Association (NBA). Too many college basketball players come into college programs, build up their ski...

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...

One of the biggest problems I have with our society today is in sports. Don't get me wrong, I love sports. I love to watch the competition and seeing these men doing seemingly superhuman feats. The problem I have with sports is the over-commercialization and over-hyping of athletes by their a...

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...

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