...Gabriel Sulentic Mrs. Walker English 10H 5 February 2024 Lou Gehrig's Research Paper An individual is as good if not better than Babe Ruth. However, people do not know who, because that is just a ludicrous statement to make, that someone is better than the greatest of all time. He is known as Lou Gehrig, also known as the Iron Horse, or Mama's Boy. A great deal of people have not heard of him because he was a quiet legend who had his career cut short. Lou Gehrig had an interesting childhood, high school and college life, but he is most known for his professional career along with his interesting discoveries in the medical world that affect people to this day. Lou Gehrig, an early American baseball player who played in the major leagues, was...
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...Executive Summary In Springfield Nor’easters case study, Larry Buckingham is the marketing director for the Nor'easters, a class A minor league baseball team in Springfield, MA. As any other profit-seeking business the objective of this sports club is to sustain a viable business by making profit, at least brake-even in the opening season. The two major sources of revenue for Nor’easters are ticket and concession sales. Larry conducts market research to gain knowledge about potential customers and their willingness to attend Nor’easters games on different ticket price levels. The results of the survey and other information collected by various sources help Larry to develop a pricing strategy for the Nor’easters’ ticket and concession sales. This paper evaluates the data yielded from the market research, presents two alternative pricing strategies and states the strengths and weaknesses for each. Finally, this paper concludes with a set of recommendations from the alternatives discussed. According to the evaluation of survey data, the information provided in the case and assumptions made, at least 50% of the Springfield population need to attend at least one game throughout the season for Nor’easters to break even. However, although not fully reflective of the whole population due to limited sample size, the survey data states that only 39% of Springfield residents are willing to attend games. Nor’easters will have to escalate this to above 50% level by conducting marketing...
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...Sports University of Phoenix Introduction to Research and Information Utilization RES/110 Timothy Wong February 01, 2010 Steroids in Sports How has the use of steroids affected sports? It all started in 1952 with Soviets Olympic debut in Helsinki, but it did not make a large impact until the 1954 World Weightlifting Championships when the Soviets won most of their weight classes. Steroids have been around in sports for a long time, but how have they affected each sport up till today. Everyone hears about the superstars that have been involved in the recent steroid activity, but most people do not hear about how it all started in sports. In this research paper one will see where it all started from and how it has progressed throughout all sports. One will see this through articles, web sites, and some newspapers. This is an interesting topic with all the recent steroid use in baseball such as Alex Rodriguez, Roger Clemens, and Mark Maguire just to name a few. Everyone knows about these big names and how they have affected baseball over the last few years so how did this all start, why did they want to use steroids, and what has the government done to stop this from being a problem in the future. One would think that this is not a big problem in sports today after all of the attention that has came from the government and the media, but it still is in the sports that do not have drug testing in such as high school sports or minor...
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...Introduction In the case study of Springfield, Buckingham is the marketing director for the Nor’easter, which is a class A minor league baseball team in Springfield. Just like any other profit-seeking business the aim of this sports club is sustaining a viable business by ensuring that it makes profit, at least it should have a break-even point in the opening season. The two main revenue sources for Nor’easters are ticket and Johny undertakes market research with an aim of gaining knowledge in connection to probable customers as well as their willing ness of attending Nor’easters games at diverse price levels of tickets. The result survey results and other information collected by various sources help the director in developing the strategy of pricing for the Nor’easters’ tickets and concession sales. The paper examines data that was obtained from market research; it presents two alternative pricing strategies giving both strengths and weaknesses for all of them. The paper also gives some recommendations from the discussed alternatives in the pricing. Considering the data survey evaluations, the information offered in the case and assumptions made, about half of the population of Springfield should attend at least one game all through the season for break-even to be arrived at in Nor’easters. Nonetheless, although not entirely reflecting the entire population, due to limitations of sample size, the data in the survey indicates that 39 percent of the residents of Springfield...
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...any given university. Gerald Graff, on the other hand, feels that the problem comes from the lack of communication between professors, and that many of the times the students are taught the same concepts but through opposite understandings and in a bias fashion. Mike Rose met many struggling students at UCLA’s Tutorial Center, the Writing Research Project, and the school’s Summer program. He first describes the loneliness students feel upon arriving at college, and that as they try to find themselves, they all to often lose themselves because they are bombarded with ideas that are so foreign to them. He introduces his audiences to Andrea, a bright young girl out of high school who, despite hours of memorizing in her textbook, could not obtain a passing grade on her Chemistry mid-term. How is this possible if she spent so much time studding? Rose explains that she failed because in college, and in this course in particular, it is not enough for a student to know the material, but rather, to be able to apply it in a various amount of problems. Yet the problem Andrea faces is that she was never taught this in high school. Rose writes of other students he tried to help as they sat in front of him with eyes that were both sad and confused. From young, jocks, to a twenty-eight year old mother, and an insecure girl that was so...
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...Background This report is a comprehensive marketing plan for Burlington Sporting Goods, located in Alamance County, NC. Burlington Sporting Goods (BSG) is Alamance County’s oldest sporting goods store. Since the store opened in October 1947, BSG has offered a wide variety of sport related products and services to the people of Burlington and Graham. Along with retail sporting goods and apparel, BSG offers corporate screen-printing for team uniforms, a basketball facility and an indoor batting facility. The batting facility features a completely enclosed 70' x 70' batting cage with nine token operated pitching machines. Additionally, BSG offers Nike SPARQ training and hosts birthday parties and summer camps for basketball, cheerleading and baseball. Mission Burlington Sporting Goods strives to foster mutually beneficial ties in Alamance County. Since we opened our doors in October 1947, Burlington Sporting Goods has provided the towns of Graham and Burlington with a wealth of services for all their athletic and sport needs. We're the oldest sporting goods store in Alamance County, and we take pride in providing Alamance County with our team-oriented and friendly staff (BSG, 2013). The following plan is designed to boost the financial success and brand equity of Burlington Sporting Goods in order to help the organization achieve and maintain its stated mission. It features an analysis of BSG’s current position within its market, an analysis of the organization’s target market, a statement...
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...it is how they are being taught. Yes, some students take a little more time to catch on to something than other students, but that does not make them incapable of learning at all. Teaching students by scaffolding based on information they already know will make it easier for them. For example, my little brother struggled with language when he was younger. My parents, knowing how much he loves Harry Potter movies, bought him a set of the books and the movies because he makes connections between the words in the books to pictures in the movies. This allowed him to better understand what some of these words in the books meant and the movies were able to give him examples of what these words mean. I had a similar experience when I was in high school. It was the end of the year in my college algebra class and we were learning basic trigonometry. I was not catching on; I just didn’t get it. When I went to my teacher about it she retaught me in a new way that built on operations I already knew how to do. In reality, I had known the whole time how to do it, but I didn’t understand it because the way it was presented to...
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...experiences and thinking. This paper has knowledge of great thinkers who help me understand how to be an intentional teacher in the classroom. Piaget and Vygotsky's views of cognitive development help me understand how children think differently and see the world differently. I want to be able to take in and build off what the book gives me and relate certain criteria to the way I teach and learn about things through my experiences in the classroom. Teacher Efficacy Teacher efficacy is the belief you have in yourself as a teacher that what you do makes a difference (Henson, 2002; Tschannen-Moran & Woolfolk Hoy, 2001). The successful teachers are the ones that truly care about their students’ academic progress and monitor it daily. Being able to observe the classroom last semester really gave me an understanding of what teaching is really like. Fortunately, I was lucky enough to get a first year teacher that has a true passion for what she does. She was always creating new ideas for the classroom environment and new holiday themes like “spooktacular spiders” during Thanksgiving. Her classroom has a library that she keeps adding to where the students’ can choose a book to read from. It was one highlight that the teacher did that showed me she truly cares about her students’. It is teachers like that that make a difference in a child’s life. High-Quality Teacher From...
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...Assessment without High-Stakes Testing Protecting Childhood and the Purpose of School David Mitchell, Douglas Gerwin, Ernst Schuberth, Michael Mancini, and Hansjörg Hofrichter 1 Picture a breezy spring morning at the beach. White-tipped waves roll rhythmically up the sand, washing away footprints like a blackboard eraser on a classroom blackboard. A group of children on a school outing marches purposefully along the shore through the edge of the frothy waves. A couple of eager kids stride out in front. The teacher walking along with the main group of the class notices that one of the boys is lagging behind. The teacher slows her step to find out why this child is not keeping up with his class. There are several possibilities: 1. The child is unable to keep up with the group, due to some disability, physical or emotional, or simply exhaustion for lack of sleep or nourishment; 2. The child is unwilling to keep up with the group, due to a lack of interest or, perhaps, a surfeit of distractions along the way; or 3. The child does not know how to keep up with the group, possibly because he is new to this experience and has not been taught how to hold his balance against the waves. In each of these cases, the teacher will respond differently. In the first case, she may scoop up the boy and carry him, or ply him with a quick snack or a sip of water. In the second, she may draw his attention to something of interest up ahead or coax him with some gentle words of sympathy and encouragement...
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...Moral failings in athletic programs are well documented in journals, newspapers, and books. It is difficult to watch the local or national news without hearing about a scandal in an athletic program. These scandals range from youth programs all the way up through club programs, high school programs, and NCAA athletics. These moral failures hurt the student athletes and cause them to suffer. This literature review explores the possibility of servant leadership and transformational leadership helping administrations and their organizations navigate the current sports’ culture and help them return their programs to a reputable state. This literature review will begin by identifying and explaining the current state of youth, high school, and collegiate...
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...Sports, Youth and Character: A Critical Survey Robert K. Fullinwider* Institute for Philosophy & Public Policy University of Maryland * rkf@umd.edu CIRCLE WORKING PAPER 44 FEBRUARY 2006 CIRCLE Working Paper 44: February 2006 Sports, Youth and Character: A Critical Survey TABLE OF CONTENTS I. INTRODUCTION....................................... 3 a. methodological limitations..................... 4 b. conceptual and theoretical infelicities...... 5 II. THE LESSONS OF SPORT......................... 5 III. BASICS................................................ 6 a. too much too early?.............................. 8 b. competition’s role understood ............... 11 c. competition, participation, and fun......... 12 d. not enough?........................................ 14 IV. WHAT CAN WE CONCLUDE?.................... 15 V. THE MICROWORLD OF PARTICIPATION...... 17 VI. APPENDIX A......................................... 19 a. Shields and Bredemeier...................... 19 a.1. moral maturity: what are psychologists looking for?............ 22 a.2. game thinking............................. 24 a.3. moral confusion........................... 25 b. Stoll, Lumpkin, Beller, and Hahm.............. 27 It has been recognized for centuries that sport can contribute to education values that make for the development of character and right social relations . . . . [Within this contribution] there are many intertwined and interwoven threads of influences...
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...Abstract As you read, you will learn about the wonderful game of baseball and a different outlook on the sport. It is a popular sport in America. The rest of the world looks to America as a guiding force. They view America as the baseball empire of the world. Major league baseball is the envy of the world. Baseball has very broad cultural, social, and geographic impacts that go deeper than we think. We will briefly examine the diverse and changing social, economic, and political meanings of this activity in different countries. Baseball has failed in the promotion in many European and African societies and we will discuss why. Baseball is an international sport that brings great experiences and great memories that last a lifetime. It can be very important in the bond of family. The swing, techniques, bat and balls are important and we will learn why it’s important to have proper training. Also you will read about players that have tarnished the sport and players that have changed baseball forever. Mainly this is a view of the importance of the sport worldwide and how it has changed the world through the guidance of American baseballs influence on the rest of the world. Sport of Baseball Internationally this game is viewed as a very powerful game. Baseball is the same in many ways all over the world. Every player is aiming to knock the ball out of the park or just feel lucky to get on base. Although the game has changed, the history of the...
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...October 24, 2007. Accessed November 19, 2017. http://blog.chron.com/bayoucityhistory/2007/10/a- look-back-at-buff-stadium/. This image is intended for Houston baseball history fanatics. The picture shows how Buff...
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...in the post World War 2 era, there has been an ever increasing use of performance enhancing drugs in all avenues of sport. Sports have become money making machine for both athletes and big business and the “win at all costs” attitude which has permeated itself into all aspects of professional and college level athletics. Winners make money, losers don’t. The temptation of fame, notoriety and million dollar contracts in all venues of sport is a lure for many athletes. Elite professional athletes are worshiped in today’s society. This paper will elaborate on the use of performance enhancing drugs in the sporting world and the associated sports ethical issues. It is a majority belief in all sporting circles that the “true” spirit of sportsmanship does not allow any aspect of performance enhancing drugs. There are several arguments both in favor and against the use of performance enhancing drugs which will be presented and discussed in this paper. While addressing this ethical issue, we need to define the term ethics. Ethics can be defined as the socially accepted norms and values. These norms and values are varied from society to society and are based on culture and tradition. Ethics also could be defined as the unsaid, un-written and understood laws that prevail in a society. Ethics also cover what is right and what is wrong in society and teaches individuals to act in the right manner and remain committed towards it. Taking performance enhancing drugs has a long history in...
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...This study focused on the effect that being an athlete has on how attractive a person is found by those around them. 6 athletes, 3 male and 3 female (baseball/softball, lacrosse, and soccer players) were selected and photos of them either in their sports uniform or in their everyday clothing were shown to 200 random individuals in Shenendehowa High School East across a time span of one week. Those shown a photo of an athlete in their sports uniform were not also shown the photo of that same athlete in their everyday clothing, and those shown a photo of an athlete in their everyday clothing were not also shown the photo of that same athlete in their sports uniform. A hypothesis test performed on the resulting averages of the surveys handed out to participants showed no significant results. According to our findings, the fact that someone is an athlete has no effect how how attractive they are found by those around them. Page 2 Much research has been done on the topic of attractiveness and qualities that make people attractive. Attractiveness is a very broad topic that is hard to pinpoint because what is deemed “attractive” differs greatly from person to person and there is no set guidelines to follow that tell specifically what is attractive and what is not. The general topic of attractiveness allowed for many different more specific topics of research pertaining to attractiveness that could be linked or similar to our...
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