on College Athletes Performance Corey Darnell Rolling Northern Illinois University The Effects of Academic Clustering and Anxiety on College Athletes Performance Significance of Problem In the past 30 years, college athletics has grown into a big business. With sponsorships from top tier athletic brands and broadcasting deals with major television station such as American Broadcasting Company (ABC) television station. The ability to recruit the best of the best athletes has resulted
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Imagery, PEETLEP Model and Technology Michael S. Harmon Capella University Abstract The use of imagery in the realm of sport psychology is widely accepted and used to enhance skill, reduce anxiety, increase decision making skills, etc. Although several models are available to construct imagery scripts, the PEETLEP model offers seven concepts that should improve the delivery system over more traditional oriented approaches. Integrate that model with advances in technology (video capture, podcasts
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Review and Propositions Peter Yannopoulos* In this paper we review several studies in the area of celebrity advertising. Topics include, why companies use celebrity advertising, achieving the right fit between the brand and the celebrity, the use of athletes as spokespeople, financial considerations of celebrity advertising, and potential risks of celebrity advertising. Next, we develop several propositions and discuss the conclusions and managerial implications of the research. Field of research:
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the athletes that play them will do almost anything to win. From cycling and snowboarding to the NFL and MLB, athletes have done whatever they had to over the years to win at any cost. It’s a pressure placed on them from the owners that pay them to the fans the pay to see them. Some feel that an athlete should be free to make the choices they want to make, as long as it’s safe and doesn’t hurt anyone else. In a society that strives for perfection, the use of anabolic steroids and performance enhancing
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Stakeholders List The Athlete: * The driving force for many athletes is the drive to better themselves to be in their best shape possible. So athletes who choose not to dope, choose not to be in their strongest shape (minus the possible side effects of doping) and go against their motto. Documentary-ish: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IPnT1ZSXfaU * This video basically follows this body builder around as he talks about steroids and body building. * This video shows how athletes feel like they
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coaching behaviors and student-athlete well-being. I found this article very interesting because not a lot of people are aware of the ethical issues that have been and are currently going on in the athletic background. Believe it or not there are many ethical issues that relate to psychology in the athletic field. Ethical Issues in Collegiate Athletics One of the biggest ethical issues in collegiate athletics was the abusive behaviors of the coaches to the athletes. This is a big ethical issue
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the performance coaches coaching classes today. I saw some interesting techniques that the coaches used to build upon a regular exercise they have used in the past. One interesting technique was hooking up two resistance cords onto the athlete opposed to one. Another interesting technique the sports performance coaches used was using longer resistance cords for the linear acceleration classes opposed to the normal sized resistance cords used. Furthermore, it was interesting how the athletes used
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Threat Effects on Black and White Athletic Performance,” conducted by Jeff Stone, Mike Sjomeling, Christian Lynch, and John Darley. The second experiment in the study focused on whether traditionally non-stigmatized groups such as white college students would also experience distress when their social identity is threatened by racial negative stereotypes. The nature of generalized stereotypes among black and white athletic performance dates back to the 1800’s and continues to be a heated debate among
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Another question throughout this study is, how do young athletes communicate about banned substances’ in sport? There has been little effort within the social sciences to provide insight into whether and how athletes communicate among themselves about morally contested topics. In an article, A Frame Analysis of Communication About Doping Among Talented, Young, Norwegian Road Cyclists by Renslo Sandvik, Ase Strandbu, and Sigmund Loland from the Norwegian School of Sport Science attempts to fill this
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OUTLINE RESEARCH PAPER Can Performance Enhancing Drugs (PED) actually be positive and beneficial for Major League Baseball? “As the likes of Barry Bonds, Mark McGwire, Sammy Sosa, Roger Clemens and Alex Rodriguez saw their usage exposed, the sport fought back with tougher drug testing and after the 2005 season produced a program punitive enough to minimize the game's doping culture.” (Braun's test result gives MLB major jolt; With MVP under cloud, steroid era is revisited Bob Nightengale
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