In what was one of the most influential and important concepts ever published in the broader psychological field, Leon Festinger's creation of cognitive dissonance completely changed the way psychologists understood decision-making and behavior. ... As most hockey players know, the team you play for and the individuals that make it up is the most important aspect of the sport that I had come to love. ... The cognition's of my love for hockey, and the importance of joining successful and close teams were not only related, but perfectly consistent with who I was as a person, and my beh...

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An example of this is when men participate on field hockey teams dominated by women, creating positive and negative results to the game and also socially. ... Those who oppose men participating in field hockey claim that their presence on the field will change the nature of the "women's" game. ... An additional argument in opposition to men participating in field hockey, as well as other female dominated sports is associated with equality. ... Although, this point is also important in the argument for those who see the participation of men in field hockey as a positive aspect to the gam...

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(Kupelian,1997) Whether it's a hockey player intentionally slashing an opponent across the face with a hockey stick or a boxer biting an opponent's ear, the newspaper headlines are dominated by stories of athletes and their violent actions. Of course, contact sports such as football, hockey, and especially boxing require the use of aggressive bodily force against opponents and are violent by their very natures, but where do we draw the line? ... Recently, athletes have faced criminal charges for their violent acts on the field of play. One example is hockey player Marty McSor...

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My grandfather never attended sporting events in person, except for some soccer games played by amateurs in open dirt fields and barefoot. ... My dad use to attend hockey games in person, he also would follow hockey through the newspaper, radio, and TV. ... "I like the way soccer does it, with banners around the field, a little logo on the corner of the screen and no interruption during the game." ... I have attended sporting events such as, soccer, basketball, baseball, hockey, football, and Formula One Racing. ...

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It is somewhat of a combination of basketball, soccer, and hockey. ... It is a game that is full of long field sprints with precision passing and dodging. ... Box lacrosse is different from field lacrosse in that the field is much smaller, usually a hockey rink covered with Astroturf, and there are six players on a team. The Canadians developed this variation of lacrosse and played it more than traditional field lacrosse so that they could make use of unused hockey rinks in the summer. ... The league's violent play has subsided since its first year, but it is still far more violent than ...

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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...

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When the American people think of women in sports, they think of ice skating, field hockey and diving. ... Right now in some part of America, there is a women who aspires to play hockey for the New York Rangers, but what she does not realize is that the media will not give a positive backing to her effort. ... One of the most surprising rises in women's sports has seen in the field of softball. ... We see that players are no longer on the playing field for the feeling of victory, but are out there for the seven figure pay check that they receive for dedicating half of the year to their sp...

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He excelled in in sports but particularly in baseball, hockey and lacrosse. ... Lester volunteered to work with the Royal Flying Corps, despite how dangerous this field is. ... Lester was noted to be Oxford University's best hockey and lacrosse player. In 1922, he was chosen to be a member of the British Olympic Hockey Team. ...

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One clear example arose when during the 1990 World Cup in Italy the two met in the semi-finals, The Sun had a field day, running with headlines as follows, "we beat them in "45, we beat them in "66 now the battle of "90." ... Another example of a country that has also received this type of treatment is India, as Whannel (1992), illustrates, "Indian hockey team were said to be on an bonus of 100 popadoms a man" (Whannel 1992, p 137). ... The constant referencing back to previous conflicts that didn't even take place on the sporting field is in some cases, unfair and wrong. ... It al...

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Elizabeth Allan explains a story of young sophomore girls who are hazed by their older teammates: Picture yourself as a 15 year-old girl at a summer sports camp with your high school field hockey team. ... The so-called hazes were seniors on a team that had won the Bergen County field Hockey Championship for the past three years. ...

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For the sport the only positive aspect is that the competition becomes tougher and brings about a stronger playing field. ... Many jobs require drug testing, and as athletes their job is to perform on the field and up to the standards of the public, but with doing so in the right way. ... Drug testing will level the playing field and allow the truly talented competitor to once again shine, and make competing and training much more fun. ... The National Basketball Association (NBA), the National Hockey League (NHL), and the Major League Baseball (MLB) players will be subject to random test...

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Athletes who take a serious blow to the head on the field, court or ice should see a doctor immediately and leave the game for the day if they lose consciousness or have persistent or delayed symptoms, according to new concussion guidelines based on the latest scientific research and endorsed by six major medical organizations. ... The Canadian Hockey Association (CHA) established a grading scale and return to play guidelines designed for amateur sports, particularly for youngsters. ... The return to play guidelines for the Canadian Hockey Association, the International Ice Hockey Federation...

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It is most commonly found in professional athletes that participate in American football, ice hockey, professional wrestling, boxing, soccer and other heavy contact sports. ... For the purpose of example, by means of penalizing intentional hits to the head (which has already happened in both football and hockey) and by observing patients who have had mild traumatic brain injuries strictly. ... There are no specific measures of traumatic injuries on the brain to tell if an athlete is ready to step back onto the field after concussions. ...

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The combined opposition of the IOC and the IAAF kept women out of the most prestigious sport on the program, track and field. ... She started the Women's Games in direct response to the repeated refusal of International Olympic Committee (IOC) and the International Amateur Athletic Federation (IAAF) to put women's track and field on the program of the Olympics Games which they organised. Women in many countries were competing in track and field in record numbers and achieving record times. ... The growing prestige of women's track and field the IAAF wanted control. ....

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Thesis The sport of wrestling has been voted out of the 2020 Olympic Games by the International Olympic Committee (IOC); however, many athletes, fans, and supporters of wrestling are upset and feel it must remain part of the Olympic tradition. I. Topic Sentence: Due to a review involving twenty-...

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Introduction to Physics In approaching the subject of Sporting Science, we will first introduce laws and definitions from the field of physics that will accompany us throughout. ... Most of the basic physical definitions required, are drawn from the field of mechanics. ... For example, a hockey puck will remain in motion on ice, longer than it would on turf, because of the differences in the force of friction applied to the puck by the two surfaces. ...

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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...

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Port Richmond Charter School Mission: Every student should experience learning successes, become literate, confident and caring, be able to think critically, solve problems, and communicate effectively. Students will become productive respectful members of the community. My school is ...

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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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Based on my prior experiences at museums the Arab American Museum was not just a field trip. ... When I went to the Detroit Science Museum as a child it was a field-trip we did not really focus on one subject but rather saw all the different fields of science. ... I used my previous experience of being interviewed to be a junior hockey coach to interview Mr. ...

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If steroids use were then legal, everyone would have the option of using it without fear of punishment thus leveling the playing field. ... In an article on MidlandDailyNews.com, sports-writer Chris Stevens is quoted as saying "Pro athletes, especially in sports such as hockey and football, take a tremendous amount of physical punishment, and their bodies are banged up and bruised for much of the season. ... A home run is when a baseball player hits a ball with such force that it travels a great distance and leaves the entire playing field over the fences. ... In many playing fields the ...

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Since the illness has closely been related to athletes who partake in high contact sports such as boxing, American football, soccer, and hockey, CTE became a very popular topic within professional leagues. ... After the hit, the Browns put McCoy through concussion protocol, which he supposedly passed, allowing him to return to the field. ... In the same season, the league also authorized that once a player loses his helmet on the playing field the current play must immediately be whistled dead. ... The athletic trainers assist medical personnel located on the sidelines in recognizing possible ...

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Throughout history there has been changes in media, whether those changes are, medium, how many people the media reaches, and the kind of things the media covers. The media itself has not only changed, but has changed life for humans as well. The changes in media have made life easier to accomplis...

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There is no massive force field dividing the countries, and no one takes a black marker or a pair of scissors to divide them off or cut them from the rest of the land. ... No one can tell me that the Olympics would be better of if Team Canada's hockey teams didn't stand to their anthem. ...

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The only two organizations that have not yet done the same are the National Hockey League and Major League Baseball (MLB). ... The field is just too filled with drug users." ... Instead of athletes competing on the field to determine who is better, it would be based on who the better chemist is with the best laboratory, or which country has the most money put into the development of new drugs. ...

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