Player Violence Issues: On and Off the Field
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This is an 8 page paper discussing the various issues which surround player violence on and off the field. How players who have a history of violence are handled by their associations and their influences are discussed. Different types of player aggressive behaviour is categorize and applied to examples. Bibliography lists 9 sources.
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Sport Psychology: Motivation in Sports and Soccer
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This is a 7 page paper discussing motivation in sport with examples from soccer. Motivation in sport is unique in regards to the study of motivation in psychology as many factors which seem to motivate athletes to increase perceived competence and performance are not the same as those recorded in other studies outside of the sport environment. Researchers A.V. Carron and R.H. Cox have compiled collections of motivational models which can be applied within the sport setting. While much of the research can be applied to athletes who compete on an individual level, much of it has also been applied to the team environment. Several research studies in the area of junior soccer have revealed that expectations of others and perceived self-control are high motivators in relation to perceived competence and performance. While many factors such as intrinsic self-confidence are required for high anxiety level components of the game, such as penalty shots, several other components related to expectations of others such as audience support are more consistent indicators of motivation in the sport of soccer. Bibliography list 6 sources.
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Sports Coaching in France
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A 6 page paper discussing the role of government and coaches in French school sport. The government places a sport representative on staff at all public schools, and even private schools have athletic directors and compete with other private schools. French coaches have both academic and sport superiors, and they are expected to teach more to their students than merely rules and techniques of games. Sport is an integral part of overall education. Bibliography lists 7 sources.
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Sports Psychology and Making the Physical and Mental Comeback from Injury
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This 10 page report discusses the processes, bothe mental and physical, associated with an athlete’s recovery from an injury and his or her return to their sport. When a person is injured while participating in a beloved sport or in a way unrelated to sports but that curtails sports capabilities, it carries a level of fear that their injury will keep them from their sport. There is also the fear that “recovery” will not mean the original level of sporting excellence. Bibliography lists 10 sources.
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Sports Psychology and the Improvement of Performance
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This 6 page paper considers the ideal characteristics, physical and mental, of a rugby player and then compares the ideal with a fictional reality. The writer the considers how an intervention made be successful in improving performance. The bibliography cites 6 sources.
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Sports Psychology Focus for a Young Golfer
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This 6 page report discusses the advice and training that a sports psychologist would address in helping a young golfer compete in the professional golfing world. The primary issues addressed are concentration, "the zone," and focus. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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Sports Psychology in “Rocky”
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This 4 page paper summarizes the movie “Rocky” and the sports psychology that it shows. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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Steroids are Ruining our National Pastime
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A 3 page examination of the growing phenomena of steroid use in baseball. The author asserts that the mindset that fuels that use can be traced all the way back to T-Ball teams and the "win at any cost" ideology with which we inoculate our youth. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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Successful Coaching
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This 8 page paper provides an overview of coaching techniques. Successful coaching is seen as employing a combination of techniques. Various leadership styles are explored. Bibliography lists 9 sources.
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Tennis/Children's Participation
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A 4 page research paper that discusses the risk of repetitive stress fractures in children, with a focus on playing tennis. The writer discusses stress fractures, stress fractures as they occur in tennis, and coaching philosophy to ensure that the sport is safe for children's participation. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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The Alabama Crimson Tide
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This 4 page paper discusses the history of football at Alabama, the legendary coach Paul “Bear” Bryant, and the fans. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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The Killer Bees: Bridgehampton, NY
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A 3 page paper which examines the success and effectiveness of teams as opposed to groups as seen through the history of the Killer Bees basketball team in Bridgehampton, NY. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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The Performance Profile Is Perfect
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6 pages in length. Knowing one's limitations is completely different from setting one's limitations, a concept brought forth and examined by the aspect of performance profiling. The reason an athlete succeeds or fails in his attempt to reach a certain goal is bound within myriad physiological and psychological elements; a coach trying to understand the reason for an athlete's inability to complete a task he believes the individual is completely able to do must look more toward the athlete's own restrictive introspection when there is no obvious cause for failure. This is where performance profiling helps to provide the reason why some people's self-perception is the single aspect holding them back from success. Bibliography lists 9 sources.
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The Philosophic Process in Sports, Ethics, and Social Responsibility
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An 8 page overview of the philosophic process as it applies to such aspects of our daily lives as sports, ethics, and social responsibility. Defines the philosophic process as a quest for knowledge and ethical and moral justification in the choices we make in life. The author contends that it is a process which is, in fact, applicable to ever aspect of our lives. In sports, for example, we seek fitness, knowledge, the enhancement of motor skills, and even pleasure. In our jobs we seek competency and professionality. Bibliography lists 8 sources.
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