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- 121: Morgan Motor Company
- ... oldest privately owned motorcar company in the automobile industry, attempts to achieve this level of quality, as demanded by its customers, by building its cars the old fashioned way. Morgan Motors has been building specialty sports cars for over eighty years. Morgan Motors hand assembles its automobiles in the factory to ensure the highest possible quality. This Old World craftsmanship is the foundation of the firm. Hand assembling cars makes for ... changed including the grille and door handles. This variety is what makes Morgan cars very attractive in the specialty car market. Every aspect of production is engineered to meet the highest quality standards of the sports car enthusiast. One firm that can be benchmarked by Morgan Motors to find the best practice of hand assembling automobiles is the German firm, Porsche. Porsche is a world-renowned leader in high-end, hand ... able to back this up with one of the highest customer approval ratings in the industry. Customer loyalty is also very high. The average Porsche owner has owned between two and three of the German sports cars. This is a statement considering the price of Porches ranges between $45,000 and $165,000. Though Porsche is in the same industry as Morgan Motors, the two firms are not truly competitors. ...
- 122: A Link Between Anxiety And The Performance Of Athletes
- ... arousal increased, performance would increase as well; but, if arousal became too great performance would deteriorate (Humara, 1999). The effects of anxiety in athletics are great and vary greatly. Many studies show that ammeter individual sports elicit a higher competitive state anxiety when compared with team sport athletics. Also contact individual sports in comparison to non-contact individual sports have a higher state anxiety. Also playing a role is self-confidence. The amount of self-confidence that an individual possess has been found to differ among elite, and novice athletes. Researchers with a ...
- 123: Diamonds Are My Best Friend
- ... game. Baseball is a game of numbers. I look at statistics as stockbrokers look at the Dow Jones report. I remember being thirteen years old, getting the newspaper every morning, and immediately flipping to the sports section to see the latest averages and league leaders. There was a point in my life when I knew the batting average of every current player within four points. I would look forward to hearing Harold Reynolds and Karl Ravich on Baseball Tonight on ESPN to see how well all the teams had fared in the night s matchups. I still enjoy the simplistic pleasures of picking up the sports page and seeing how my favorite players performed the previous day, even though I do not keep track of statistics as I once did. I read baseball literature quite often. I own copies of Bunts ... crazy. My father and I were cheering, as were all the baseball fans around the world. It didn t matter whether you were old, young, male, female, die hard baseball fan, or just an occasional sports viewer; this was history. In the midst of all the commotion, I sat down and thought for a moment: This is one man, playing a simple game he s loved since being a child, ...
- 124: The American Basketball Association
- ... a result, many college stars began to go straight into the ABA before graduating. One which did this was Moses Malone, he was the first player to come straight out of high school into professional sports. This was a revolutionary event in the history of professional sports. The ABA had a style of its own. Newsweek once described them, Sex, drugs, platform shoes, sideburns, slam dunks, midnight franchise shifts, million dollar deferred-payment player contracts, the three-point shot, Dr. J, Marvin (Bad News) Barnes, LaVerne (Jelly) Tart, and Pat Boone. Pro sports the way they oughta be! They were the complete opposite of the NBA. The NBA was traditional and boring to watch. They played a much slower paced game than the ABA, who had an ...
- 125: Drugs In Football Making An Ap
- ... setting a bad example for the youth of America. There is just too many available drugs for football players today. For football players, drugs are easy to obtain. Too easy to obtain. Bill Gilbert, a Sports Illustrated writer, said, "they do not have to stand around in waiting rooms, at pharmacy counters, or on street corners for their fixes. Drugs are brought to them, and usually provided free of charge. The ... He also estimated that around 20% were addicted to cocaine. That is around 274 players. He concluded that 10 players in each team were hooked on cocaine "(Harris 11). Another controversy in all of the sports world is that of whether steroid use should be accepted or not. There are many pro's to taking steroids, but too many con's. Steroids are physically enhancing drugs. They are derived from the ... also achieve a quicker recovery. Of course, if the muscle mass in increased, then the body weight will increase. If the athlete is using steroids secretively, then they will have a high prestige among the sports world for being strong, good looking, and vigorous. There are very few pros's compared to all the con's of using steroids. Just a few con's are: increase in acne, mood swings ...
- 126: Jackie Robinson
- ... him the first African American in modern organized baseball. Jackie Robinson went to UCLA where he became an All-American in football and basketball. Robinson is still the only UCLA Bruin to letter in four sports: football, basketball, baseball, and track. Baseball was his weakest sport, but he played it professionally because the NBA and NFL still had their doors closed to African Americans. As a baseball player, Robinson revolutionized the ... greats like Ruth and Cobb. Not until after Robinson's debut did we get to see sights like Sandy Koufax whiffing Willie Mays, or Ken Griffey Jr. tattooing a Roger Clemens fastball. Athletes in many sports, notably Arthur Ashe and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, have cited Robinson's influence on their careers and in their lives. Many current athletes wear his uniform number, 42, as a tribute. The second half of Jackie ... Jackie Robinson Award. It is often forgotten that even without his social significance, Robinson would still be the greatest athlete of all time. He achieved a higher level of excellence in a wider variety of sports that any athlete in history. Jackie not only had an impact on baseball, but on other sports and American society as well. Besides being a great athlete, he was also a civil rights champion ...
- 127: Bornstein
- ... even in this modern age there are still gender differences and inequalities that are overlooked daily. Many of these have affected my own life. It wasn't long into junior high when I stopped playing sports to pursue more artistic interests. After doing this I felt very much like an outsider (at a time when fitting in was of most importance). I noticed that in most situations at school the guys would play the sports and the girls would cheer them on. In a small town like my own things like this were never questioned. Ideals like these seem horribly archaic as it silently enforces gender differences with almost no ... that motivated me to question these beliefs. Also, in today's society not all gender inequalities have been removed completely but rather replaced or transformed into something that is less noticeable on the surface. In sports today the big hype is the fact that there is now a female sports announcer for a professional ball team. In the past this position would of been considered a strictly male position. In ...
- 128: The Evolution Of Professional
- WRESTLING Wrestling is defined as a sport in which the opponents wrestle, or struggle hand to hand. This has been done for thousands of years. Wrestling is probably one of the oldest sports in the world. Along with the discovery of mummies, gold, and priceless artifacts that had not been seen by human eyes in thousands of years. There are pictures of wrestlers within the walls in the tombs of Egyptian pharaohs. The ancient Greeks are said to have loved the sport. Wrestling was one of the first sports in the Olympics. Along with the Greeks, the Romans also loved the sport; they would have bouts (matches) that would be held at an arena where thousands would watch. The winner would claim victory and ... first thing that comes to mind when wrestling is mention is that it is fake and that it is not a real sport. Vince McMahon, the owner of the World Wrestling Federation described wrestling as sports entertainment instead of a pure sport. In my eyes just because it is called sports entertainment doesn t mean that it is fake. Many that believed that wrestling was no challenge have tried to ...
- 129: The Old Ball Game
- ... a new "pastime" or dream to take over their country? George Constable, a critic of baseball in Japan, explains, "The Japanese are finding increasing time to participate in a variety of leisure activities, including several sports from the United States. Among the most popular is baseball" (24). The people of Japan are swallowing up this new obsession. If they are not playing the game professionally, they are finding ways to become ... has looked to America to develop several of their dreams. Works Cited Akutsu, Daisuke. Personal Interview. 17 Nov. 1995. Constable, George. Japan. Alexandria, Virginia: Time Life Books, 1985. Fimrite, Ron. "Land of the Rising Fastball." Sports Illustrated 9 Sept. 1985: 62. Mr. Baseball. Dir. Orson Welles. Perf. Tom Selleck. Universal City Studios, Inc., 1992. Nefk, Craig. "The Hottest American Import in Japan." Sports Illustrated 23 March 1987: 74. Tasker, Peter. The Japanese. New York: Truman Talley Books, 1987. Whiting, Robert. "The Pain of Perfection." Sports Illustrated 5 may 1989, 76.
- 130: Double Standard
- ... rules about sexuality. The unfair value system form by the idealistic view of men and women, causes us to be confused in the world of what we are suppose to think. In the world of sports, women are often view as to be not as competitive as men. Women are suppose to participate in the more feminine sports like figure skating and gymnastics. If a woman wanted to play in a mens sport like football or basketball, they are normally rejected by the coach or laughed at by the other male players ... he is laughed at by the other guys, who think that to play in a womens sport would make them less of a man. This causes a great divide to form between mans sports and womens sports, and the double standard is clearly seen here. The double standard is form by the different view of women and men in the society that surrounds us. In the way ...
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