...Nichols College | Sport Seminar Final Research Paper | Professor Hendrick | | Sean Fleming | 4/29/2014 | | Abstract This is my final research paper in conclusion to my studies in the Sports Management program at Nichols College. This is a research study on the use of professional athletes from American sports leagues in the Olympic Games. Table of Contents Abstract…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….page 1 Table of Contents………………………………………………………………………………………………………………page 2 List of Tables and Figures………………………………………………………………………………………………….page 3 Chapter I: Introduction………………………………………………………………………………………………………page 4 Chapter II: Review of Literature Chapter III: Research Methodology Chapter IV: Results Chapter V: Discussion and Conclusions References Appendices Tables and Figures Chapter I: Introduction This purpose of this study will pertain to whether the use of professional athletes from American sports leagues in the Olympic Games is a good or bad idea. Currently, players from the National Hockey League (NHL), National Basketball Association (NBA), Major League Soccer (MLS), Women’s National Basketball Association (WNBA) and the Professional Golfers Association (PGA TOUR) are allowed to participate in the Summer and Winter Olympic Games by their respective leagues. There are many problems that have arisen from the allowance of professionals in the Olympics. They range from injuries to star players, financial impacts on the leagues, shutdown of schedules...
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...My Time at The Giant Center: Day of Observation Prepared for Professor Treva Clark Organizational Communications Prepared by Dylan Kapp March 22, 2013 Memorandum To: Professor Treva Clark From: Dylan Kapp Date: March 22, 2013 Subject: Day of Observation Paper Dear Professor Clark, The attached report is my Day of Observation paper. Throughout this paper I am going to discuss some of the communication events that I encountered in my time with Amy Rhine from The Giant Center. The Giant Center is a multi-purpose arena operated by Hershey Entertainment and Resorts Company. The Giant Center is located in Hershey, Pennsylvania. The day of my observation was on Sunday, March 3, 2013. My observation took place over a weekend; therefore, I did not need to get permission to be excused from classes to complete this assignment. I lived in Annville, Pennsylvania my whole life, which is just a few miles away from Hershey. I was already familiar with the Giant Center before we were assigned this project. Alex Sweeney, a former student in the Organizational Communications class, made me aware of this opportunity. This is the source of where I got the necessary contact information to get in contact with Amy Rhine. I contacted her via email and she replied with a date that would be suitable for the both of us. Within the report you will find three different communication events that I was able to observe. I will present them using the Harvard Case...
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...Breyden Coates Research paper Development of Athlete Safety Presently safety is the key goal in the youth and professional sports communities. Over the years sports have become more and more intense. Advances in physical fitness, athletic ability, and technology have led to faster play and increased competitiveness. With this comes the potential for more danger which is why scientists and engineers are working on new safety technology for athletes. According to (www.safekids.org), in 2012, more than 1.24 million children ages 19 and under were seen in emergency departments for injuries related to 14 commonly played sports. The most commonly feared of these injuries is a concussion. A concussion is a “temporary unconsciousness caused...
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...mega-sport event is scheduled at least once every year somewhere in the world, these events are rare occurrences for the host cities and countries. The benefits of such events seem lucrative; the very fact that many countries bid to host these events suggests that the benefits – be they tangible or intangible – more often than not outweigh the costs. However, some experts claim that it is almost impossible to achieve goal and provide a successful result. Therefore, the research question is : Do cities benefit from international mega-sporting events or it is just "showing-off"? When a city or nation is awarded the privilege of hosting a mega event, they are almost always required to enhance or develop their infrastructure. The developments which are created from these events are known as legacies. However, these legacies have a great risk to become "white elephants" ( Barclay, 2009,p.3). Thereupon, my research project was directed to understand do facilities in Almaty which were built for 2011 Asian Winter Games are used today and provide help for national athletes and the city. Result showed they do, but not without problems. However, legacies can come in many forms such as economic, tourism or sporting. Consequently, summarizing everything I have and answering on the main question it is clear that it is possible to achieve the best and positive outcome from hosting a mega event ,but a well-considered and actual legacy plan is essential to providing long term benefits for the...
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...Research Writing can be Fun Remember the last time your teacher asked you to write a research paper on a subject of your choosing? You probably groaned and grimaced, wiped your sweaty brow, and gasped. Relax. Take a deep breath. This paper will show you how writing for a research paper assignment can not only be done easily, but be fun! Fun you say? How? First, pick a topic that you know something about. Do you like looking for sea shells when vacationing on the beach with your family? Skateboarding at the local park? Playing video games with your friends? Baking with your mom? Making money shoveling snow for your neighbors? Playing soccer or hockey with your team? Reading books? Riding your bicycle? I think by now you get the idea – choose something that you already know a little something about and enjoy. The next steps is to research that topic. So let’s take the example of collecting sea shells on the beach when vacationing with your family. You can approach the research from several angles. You can research the specific types of shells that are located in a specific region. You can research the area where you found the shells. So let’s say that you found a conch shell on the beach in the Bahamas. You can start researching conch shells. The first step to research is one you already know about “Google”. Type Conch Shell in the google search engine and here are just three of the many choices: http://www.naturefoundationsxm.org/education/queen_conch/how_queen_conch_grows...
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...MAPLE LEAFS Prepared for: Mrs. Johnena Quirke Communications Instructor Prepared by: Michael Kenny BM/HRM 106A October 13, 2014 24 Heatherton Place St. John’s, NL A1E 4P5 October 6, 2015 Mrs. Johnena Quirke Communications Instructor Keyin College 44 Austin Street P.O. Box 13609, Stn. A St. John’s, NL A1B 4G1 Dear Mrs. Quirke: Enclosed is my term paper, which was a requirement for my Communications-English 1 course. I chose the topic Toronto Maple Leafs because I have been a fan of the Toronto Maple Leafs since I was a very young boy and wanted to share information with my classmates because they have such a great history. In researching my paper, I was able to find great amount of information from the internet. I had no restrictions in the gathering of information, which was updated information, on this specific hockey team. A major section of this report that may interest you is about a former player, Doug Gilmore, who was captain of the Toronto Maple Leafs; and my favorite player to ever lace up the skates. I certainly hope you enjoy reading this paper as I thoroughly enjoyed researching the information found in the contents of the report. If you have any questions or concerns, I may be contacted and day at 764-7560 or by email (mike1_kenny@outlook.com). Sincerely, MICHAEL KENNY BM/HRM 106A Encl. TABLE OF CONTENTS Letter of Transmittal iii Executive Summary v Introduction 1 History of the Toronto Maple Leafs 2 ...
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...Camiré, Martin, Pierre Trudel, and Tanya Forneris. "High School Athletes' Perspectives On Support, Communication, Negotiation And Life Skill Development." Qualitative Research In Sport & Exercise 1.1 (2009): 72-88. SPORTDiscus. Web. 28 Oct. 2015. This article focuses on the impact of the communication skills of coaches towards athletes. It says that the communication skills of coaches affect the athletes’ performance and psychological well-being, wherein sometimes it increase anxiety and disrupt their emotions. It states that sometimes the reason of athlete’s loss in a competition is due to the improper communication of coaches with them, and not by physical or technical reasons. The authors constructed a well written argument as to why these things effect athletes. They not only give good points, but they explain it in such a way that it’s easy to understand and a great way to take information from. This article...
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...Taffe’s Ice Land Introduction Ty Taffe is the manager of Taffe’s Ice Land, the only ice skating rink within a community of 450,000 people. He currently has a successful hockey program that allows him to break more than even. However, he is trying to increase profits by changing his strategy and adding public skating sessions tailored to different customer groups to his every day schedule. (Perreault, Cannon, & McCarthy, 2009) Analysis By doing the SWAT analysis, we will identify the strength, weaknesses, opportunities and threats. (Perreault, Cannon, & McCarthy, 2009) 1. Strengths: Taffy’s ice skating ring is the only ice skating rink available all year, in a community of 450,000. His ice skating rink is the size of a conventional hockey rink surface and runs a successful hockey program, which allows him to break even so there are currently no losses with some profit. 2. Weaknesses: His business breaks even, there are some profits, but there should be more profits. He does not have a good public program to increase profit. His current staff cannot handle any possible public skating sessions; therefore he needs to hire more staff. 3. Opportunities: By successfully adding public skating sessions, his ice skating rink could become very profitable due to the increased revenue. 4. Threats: Making the ice skating rink available for public skating sessions does not guaranty that a large number of people show up. His current efforts to make the public skating session more...
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...Principals of Marketing Chapters 1-8 Marketing Paper I didn’t understand the concept of marketing or what I had really signed up for this semester. I understood that it involved advertising for a product, and the means of going about advertising it. However, marketing is much more than just advertising, and there is a lot of work that needs to be done before a product is even ready to be advertised. Marketing as stated in chapter one of the textbook, is the activity, set of institutions, and processes for creating, communicating, delivering and exchanging offerings that have value for customers, clients, partners, and society at large. At first I was unclear of what the definition meant, though learning about the four P’s, marketing plans, sales orientated companies, market orientating, companies, and much more, started making it clear. There are three different types of companies that all have different ideas on how to market. A sales company often uses the aspect of sales orientation. This is when a company tries to aggressively sell a product rather than understand exactly what their customers are looking for. A marketing orientated company learns about what the buyer actually is looking for and correctly markets that product. A product-orientated company, designs a cheap inefficient product rather than correctly designing what the market needs. After learning the type of company you belong to, it’s important to make a marketing plan for your product. A marketing...
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...friend has played football his whole life. Unfortunately, he has been plagued by concussions ever since he started to play the sport. He is a prime example of an ordinary kid who plays a sport he loves, but has altered his future forever. Commissioners are actively trying to reduce the number of head injuries that occur while playing. However, the main problem regarding head injuries in sports is that players tend to rush back to their respective sports, without proper testing and treatment. This results in athletes risking their playing careers, a life filled with long-term head complications, and eventually putting their lives in danger. As an injured athlete, there comes a point where you have to ask yourself, is rushing back to the game really worth a lifetime filled with head injuries and complications? So what do team doctors need to do differently when treating head injuries? Junior Seau and Sidney Crosby are just two out of thousands of professional athletes who have endured brain injuries throughout their professional careers. They are also two of the most famous sports figures in the world, and by far the most talked about when discussing concussions. Junior Seau and Sidney Crosby have dominated their respective...
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...that its meaning is likely to have lost something of its edge and appeal. Yet it expresses a profound truth and formulates an ideal which every individual should set before himself. The body is the temple of the mind and is intimately connected with it. Bodily ailments stunt the growth of the mind, just as mental maladies affect the health of the body. The education that is imparted in our schools and colleges is mainly intellectual. It is true that every school and college has a playground and offers facilities for sports like cricket and football. But participation in games is not compulsory and little account is taken of it while awarding certificates and degrees. Besides, there is acute shortage of playgrounds in large cities. Our educationists should realise the organic connection between mind and body, and pay more attention and importance to the physical training of the young. Outdoor games like hockey, football, basket ball and tennis are the best means of ensuring physical health and development. They have several advantages over other forms of exercise. They provide not only exercise for the body but recreation for the mind. Exercising one's limbs at home or in gymnasium-calls for some effort of the will, but boys and girls have natural inclination for sports and they derive exercise from them in an agreeable way, without specially exerting themselves. They return to their studies, feeling refreshed and energetic. Sports also inculcate valuable qualities in young people...
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...Contact Sports Head/Body Injuries Research Paper November 19, 2013 Down, Set, Hut, Hut! The ball snaps, and everyone clashes into each other like warriors in battle. This is what we love about the game of football. While we are enjoying this rugged game, behind the scenes there are players in pain on and off of the field. From them having concussions to broken toes, or in other words from head to toe, every game possibly being there last one depending on the extremity of their next injury they still continue to play and entertain us. In this paper we are going to journey through some of those injuries and issues due to this sport we love and how we could help solve it, and help these athletes we love so much be able to stay in the game of football a little longer. To start off, although we’re just focusing on NFL, I have to let you know it’s not just affecting them, but the little ones we having playing this sport as well. In an article I read entitled, “Hits to the Head Don’t Differ in Age, Research Indicates”, it says that more 25,000 kids ranging from ages 8 to 19 are taken to the emergency room seeking treatment for concussions each year (Belson, 2013). This goes to say that although we enjoy when the adults are doing all this physical contact, but when it’s our own kids do we feel the same way? Well, in this case think of those NFL players as you do your children. What if they could never play again, on or off of the field? In reading another article by Sabrina Rogers...
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...THE ORIGINS OF ICE SKATES By Nam Catzel Investigation into the Origins of Ice Skates and their evolution ORIGINS OF ICE SKATES INVESTIGATIONS INTO THE ORIGINS OF ICE SKATES Executive Summary There is much debate in the field of history; conjecture and interpretation of facts are often misinterpreted due to the lack of evidence. The origin of ice skates is subject to much of these misconceptions. Though there have been many interesting and intriguing finds in this area, the origins are still debated. The true origins of ice skates is unknown; however there are many theories to who invented it, five cultures if not more believe that they have a claim to the invention. This project will illustrate known ideas about the origins of ice skates, revealing common and uncommon theories, as well as display the evolution of the ice skate in terms of design and the technologies used at each specific era. The influences and uses surrounding several styles of ice skate is identified and explained. The physics behind ice skating is analyzed to provide a context to why skating was invented. To conclude, an analysis of future possibilities and prediction of the direction evolution of the ice skate will take. “History is mere interpretation and conjecture.” Nam Catzel 1 ORIGINS OF ICE SKATES INVESTIGATIONS INTO THE ORIGINS OF ICE SKATES Table of Contents Executive Summary..............................................................................
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...CONTENTS |Introduction |2 | |Main part |3 | |The British. The main features of the British character. |3 | |History of british sport |5 | |Sports invented in Great Britain |6 | |Framework of sport in Britain. |10 | |Modern Sport in Great Britain: Structure, Administration, Funding, Popularity, Sport media and Diseases. |13 | |Elite level sport |15 | |6.1. Elite level team sports |15 | |6.2. Elite level individual sports |22...
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...Types of food people like in Pakistan: The Pakistani cosines are rich in oil and chillies. Unlike the Indian food, Pakistani dishes must include meat, chicken and beef, though pork is totally forbidden as per Islamic teachings. Although eating habits differ from regions to region, the mainstay of the Pakistani diet is "chapati or roti" made from flour. "Lassi" a usual drink made like a milkshake in a home made utencil from curd/yogurt and water is usually taken at lunch time, specially during the summers as it beats the effects of hard weather. It is usually customary to eat a dessert after the dinner, which mainly comprises "Kheer" (made from rice and milk) and sweetened rice "Zarda". Rice though scarcely eaten in many parts, pulla´o (lightly fried rice with vegetables) and biryani (rice with meat or vegetables and spices) are the tw very favourite dishes of rice, specially on marriages. "Mithai" a kind of sweet made of corn flour, sugar and milk is the favourite sweet for all ages Pakistanis generally eat three meals a day: breakfast, lunch, and dinner. During the evening, many families have green tea without sugar which goes along with baked/fried snacks from local bakery (or prepared at home). During the Islamic holy month of Ramadan, the eating patterns change to: sehri and iftar. It is considered proper to eat only with the right hand as per Islamic tradition (also a tradition in many other Asian cultures). Many Pakistani families, particularly when guests are too many...
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