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    It’s pretty clear that in today’s society males are the dominate figure in sports. Unlike female athletes, men receive a tremendous amount of media attention than female athletes. Young boys grow up watching television bombarded with heroic images of male athletes. They have something to look up to, while young girls do not receive the same images. Male and female athletes have many equal opportunities when it comes to playing and succeeding in sports. Yet it seems that male sports happen to catch

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    Leagues such as the NFL, NBA, MLB, WNBA, and many more bring us entertainment on a daily bases, thanks to the athletes that strive everyday by practicing as hard as they can so when game day comes they can perform for us. But what if these same athletes and other athletes that never made it to the professional level of sports focus and put for the same effort as they do for sports they love, to their academics while they were in school, could a better future be planned for them. As many know when

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    professional sports athletes historically took steroids to enhance greatly their overall performance, to furnish them with a reasonable edge against their opposing team. Most of the trained athletes who took or are trying anabolic steroids, do not grasp the additional complications they are taking mentally and physically with on themselves. In that respect there comes consequences with taking steroids, particularly with getting caught, these matters can be a problem for the sports athletes trustworthiness

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    Homosexuality has nothing to do with whether or not one is a proficient athlete. However, due to predisposed perceptions of what it is to be an athlete and what it is to be homosexual, the words homosexual athlete and the athlete himself are not always met with the warmest of regards. The reason for this dissonance can be somewhat explained through the Role Congruity Theory. Role congruity is the social phenomenon that an individual is perceived more positively when their actions and behaviors are

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    may be the case, there is no doubt that female athletes are far from considered equal as compared to male athletes in modern sports. In today’s sports society, women athletes are still discriminated against based on lower salaries, less media coverage, and lack of opportunity. Female athletes are discriminated against in modern sports because they have lower salaries than the male athletes. Over the years the wage gap between male and female athletes has increased tremendously. The wage gap that

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    Student Athlete Motivation Motivation is the foundation of all athletic effort and compliment or simply defined as the ability to initiate and persist at a task (Taylor). All athletes at all levels have their own motivation. They all have that will that pushes them to complete a task. There are also athletes that have low motivations but still participate. Athletes are usually in school unless they play at a professional level, the ones that are not professional are student athletes. Student athletes

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    The purpose of this study is to examine the Comparison between Athletes and Non- athletes on their academic success including their graduation rates and their growth and a person. Also the disadvantages and advantages between being either, or within the college program. The research was conducted at Abilene Christian University, utilizing two groups, Strictly athletes and non-athletes. A qualitative survey questionnaire method was used to have a fair idea about how people feel about the situation

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    Davis 1 Destanie Davis Mrs. B. Purdie Honors English III 16 November 2015 Physical Therapy for Athletes Has your favorite professional athlete ever been injured? Did you know that athlete attend physical therapy to recover? Physical therapy is the treatment of disease, injury, or deformity by physical methods such as massage, heat treatment, and exercise rather than by drugs or surgery. Physical Therapy is just one career in a growing list of health care-related professions that focus on continued

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    There is a decent amount of homosexual athletes in the NFL alone. Michael Sam has already spoken regarding this openly saying that “I am not the only gay person in the NFL,” Sam said Thursday.“I’m just saying there is a lot of us.."(Williams 3). Imagine how many homosexuals are in every sport across the nation. There is problems that come with being a homosexual athlete in the society nowadays. One of those struggles being the non acceptance into anything in the society is despondent. This is only

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    Diet for Athlete I have been reviewing an athlete of my choices diet over a 7-day period where they have told me what they have been eating and activity levels and I will be working out if he needs to eat more or less calories a day. My athlete’s aims are to maintain weight as he feels if he gains anymore he will slow down in his reactions. Name: Oran Hartin Age: 17 Sport: Gaelic Football

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