Each case involved a professional athlete seeking damages against another for actions committed away from the field of play, causing significant physical harm. ... Furthermore, most tort acts committed on the field of play are not intentional "as seen in the Hackbart case. ... How many times do you see a player go down in football, or skate of the ice seemingly dazed in hockey? ... On February 21, 2000, the National Hockey Leagues' Vancouver Canucks held a 5-2 lead over the Boston Bruins with only 2.7 seconds left in the game. ... A professional league in fact has significant, if not...

• Word Count: 1958
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

If you are serious about entering the sports agent field, you should enroll at a four-year college or university that has a sports management/administration (Sports Agent 1). ... 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). ... When I asked Jim, what opportunities there are for advancement in the field he said, "grow your clientele and always attend pro scouti...

• Word Count: 1437
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

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 ...

• Word Count: 1293
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

"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). ... Many full-ride athletes receive everything they need to succeed in the classroom and on the field. ... Baseball, hockey, volleyball, soccer, swimming, softball, and other varsity sports play many games and travel quite a bit, but these sports do not have the large fan base the other two sports do. ...

• Word Count: 2168
• Approx Pages: 9
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School