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- 1From:The Prevention Researcher (Vol. 16, Issue S1) Peer-ReviewedThe misconceptions adolescents have about steroids, some of them fueled by the media and influenced by the actual use of performance-enhancing drugs by young people, demonstrate the need for coaches, parents, and other...
- 2From:Palaestra (Vol. 21, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedThe U.S. Association of Blind Athletes is pleased to announce the 2005 International Blind Sports Association World Youth Championships will be held in Colorado Springs, August 4-10. Following the success of the 2004...
- 3From:Palaestra (Vol. 21, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedBlind or visually impaired youths, ages 13-19, are invited to participate in the 2005 National Youth Sports Festival, July 7-11 in Colorado Springs. From those who apply, approximately 30 young athletes throughout the...
- 4From:Palaestra (Vol. 25, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedTerry Wilson's fourth grade class gathers in the cafeteria for their instructions. They then file out of the room only to return hand in hand with their new little buddies. Music begins to fill the room, and is soon...
- 5From:Journal of Higher Education (Vol. 71, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedAfrican American Athletes' Stories of Schooling Derek, [1] a 20-year-old African American football player, sits in class and secretly wishes his fellow players were not in the same class with him. Antone, a teammate,...
- 6From:The International Sports Law Journal (Issue 1-2) Peer-ReviewedIntroduction The reality of elite sporting competition today is that cheating in one form or another is relatively commonplace. No example of cheating however carries the stigma nor results in such punitive and...
- 7From:Palaestra (Vol. 26, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedA 500-yard swim event is hard enough for a person without a disability. Brendan Driscoll competes in high-end able-bodied meets with one limb less. He is missing his left leg from the knee down. Driscoll was born with a...
- 8From:Nature Medicine (Vol. 16, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedMarijuana is so widely sold in Vancouver, the host of this year's Winter Olympic Games, that the city has earned the nickname 'Vansterdam'. But Olympic officials will be on the lookout for other sorts of drugs this...
- 9From:Medical World News (Vol. 33, Issue 7)Some experts believe that Olympic athletes will use blood-doping techniques that involve injecting either their own previously extracted blood or the hormone erythropoietin to enhance performance. Tests can identify only...
- 10From:Therapeutic Recreation Journal (Vol. 52, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedThis study explores the meaning of competitive sports participation among youth athletes with disabilities who are members of a sled hockey team affiliated with a community-based therapeutic recreation (TR) and adaptive...
- 11From:Contemporary Pediatrics (Vol. 35, Issue 12) Peer-Reviewed"If you get the basics down, the tricks have very little incremental gain," says Bernard Griesemer, MD, FAAP, adjunct clinical faculty, Department of Sports Medicine and Athletic Training, Missouri State University,...
- 12From:PLoS ONE (Vol. 8, Issue 5) Peer-ReviewedThis paper extends classical work on economics of doping into a multi-player game setting. Apart from being among the first papers formally formulating and analysing a multi-player doping situation, we find interesting...
- 13From:Substance Abuse Treatment, Prevention, and Policy (Vol. 13, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedBackground This study was conducted to elucidate the anti-doping (AD) education, doping control experience, and AD knowledge according to the World Anti-doping Code (Code) of Japanese university athletes. Methods...
- 14From:South African Journal for Research in Sport, Physical Education and Recreation (Vol. 43, Issue 2)The purpose of the study was to examine the relationship between athletic identity of athletes and their moral disengagement in doping. Also determined was whether athletic identity has an impact on athletes' moral...
- 15From:Black Issues in Higher Education (Vol. 22, Issue 3)SYRACUSE, N.Y. A recent study by Dr. Boyce Watkins, assistant professor of finance and researcher at Syracuse University, calculates the financial value of the Black athlete to the NCAA to exceed a quarter of a...
- 16From:The Chronicle of Higher Education (Vol. 46, Issue 36)A multi-million dollar payment by the University of Pittsburgh to a former football player who became a quadriplegic after shattering his spine in football practice raises legal implications for other universities....
- 17From:Palaestra (Vol. 24, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedOn Sunday, July 20, 2008, a sunny, hot and humid day, exciting things were about to occur at the Bauer Track and Field Complex at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, in Piscataway. Opening Ceremonies were about...
- 18From:CME: Your SA Journal of CPD (Vol. 26, Issue 7) Peer-Reviewed'All our knowledge has its origins in our perceptions.'--Leonardo da Vinci 'There is no reality, only perceptions.'--Phillip McCraw 'The map is not the territory.'--Alfred Korzbyski In a sports psychology...
- 19From:Asian Journal of Sports Medicine (Vol. 6, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedBackground: Nowadays, doping is an intricate dilemma. Football is the nationally popular sport in Iran. On the other hand, doping is a serious health hazard sport faces today. Studies dealing with athletes' knowledge,...
- 20From:Education (Vol. 114, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedTeachers and academic support personnel at colleges with big-money athletic programs may be serving more sports than academic interests. The role of institutionalized racism in higher education must be understood when...