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Each season, baseball fans and journalists alike identify which players are in the final years of their contracts because a lot rides on how the players produce in their "contract year." Will a player boost his effort and...

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This study focuses on 256 Major League Baseball free agent hitters playing under the 2006-2011 collective bargaining agreement to determine whether players engage in opportunistic behavior in their contract year, i.e., the last...

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The purpose of the project is to juxtapose how politics and government structure shape the world of sports, as well as the progress of individual sports, with the isolation of athletes from the political realities of their...

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This is the seventh in a series of occasional papers about the challenges confronting students and what Ursinus is doing to help them enter adult life.

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"Beauty is in the eye of the beholder" is a phrase that exemplifies the subjectivity of attractiveness. In recent years, researchers in the fields of economics, sociology, and anaplasty have used symmetry analysis in an attempt...

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This project is divided into two sections. The first section is a comparison between the NBA and WNBA, using performance metrics from game statistics. Using performance characteristics, an empirical analysis was used to...

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This project examines the life and career of Hungarian-born athlete Nick Martin. It explores the opportunities available to Martin via his success as an Olympic athlete.

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In sports, especially baseball, there is a lot of talk about contract year performance. Beginning in spring training and continuing throughout the season, sports journalists and fans converse about how players in the last year...

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We will argue that Communism left long lasting effects on the ways in which patriotism was perceived and executed through labor. Specifically we will look into the ways in which laborers, namely athletes, both intentionally and...

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Winthrop McNair Research Bulletin Volume 5, Full Issue

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This study measured the effectiveness of a blended, flipped instructional approach in an undergraduate education course. Blended learning combines online and face-to-face instruction. Students learned course content online and...

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From an early age, many children are engaged in or connected to various sporting activities. In a recent study, the Aspen Institute (2018) reported that 61.1% of males between the ages of six and 12 had played a team sport at...

Black Sports Socialization Racial and Gendered Socialization Race and Gender in Social Context Critical and Cultural Studies race and ethnicity Sports Studies

Evaluation of a professional athlete's performance for the purposes of compensation determination is difficult, especially when decision making may not follow the expected "instrumental rationality." This paper will look to...

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