One study found, "Each individual football player was nearly 20% more likely to experience a concussion than a girl playing basketball" (Ganley 274). In fast paced games like football where there are a lot of athletes running in and out of plays, it is critical for coaches and medical personnel to recognize the signs of injury and immediately pull the athlete out of the game. Brain injuries are the most serious type of injury that can be sustained at any level of sports, from backyard hockey up to professional football . ... An example of this is the NFL's marketing and training...

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Author of "College Sports and the Myth of Amateurism"," Allen Sack, writes on his own experiences as a scholarship football player at the University of Norte Dame. "Not receiving additional payments for my performance on the football field showed me that education was the real reason I was in college and that we are not professionals, because the majority of us are not going on to play at the professional level " (Sack). ... " She calculated the bill for a Division I football team traveling from the east coast to Los Angeles. ... In the 2007 football season a total for all of the NCAA team...

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Sports Figures as Role Models Since the beginning of time people have strived to be the best they could physically and athletically. Sports have always played a large role in society from the Primitive games to Greeks to modern day cultures. Through out time everyone has wanted to be the superstar ...

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Until the late 1970's it was unheard of to hold a coach or owner liable for the actions of a player. Players were seen as grown adults with an intricate skill and knowledge of their sports. They know fully well what actions can and cannot be committed and act on their own accord when they act outsid...

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The average salaries for professional athletes in 2001 were about 1.2 million in the National Football League, 4.2 million dollars in the National Basketball Association, 2.3 million dollars in Major League Baseball and about 1.5 million in the National Hockey League (Wuest 511). ...

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In the past, youth sports used to be fun for everyone. Everyone would have an equal amount of playing time and winning wasn't everything. As Doug Abrams, a law professor at the University of Missouri scans through databases for reports of outrageous behavior at amateur sports events, he claims he ...

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History Seventy-five years ago, people would have to either go to a sporting event or read it in the newspaper to find out about the outcome of a baseball, football, and a basketball game, and a tennis and a boxing match. 1920 was when sporting events were brought through spark transmitters, code, and the converted telephone (microphone). ...

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Over the last two decades the growth of youth sports has reflected the popularity of professional sports in our society. Sporting events and news are available to the public twenty-four hours a day on television and radio: sports are an enormous industry. The outstanding popularity of the sports ind...

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