Obedience and honesty, for example, are values relevant at work and in school, in sports and in politics, with family, friends, and strangers. Thisfeature distinguishes values from narrower concepts like norms and attitudes that usually refer tospecific actions, objects, or situations.(4) Values...
The Sport of Politics; THE SATURDAY FEATURE: How Complex World Issues Often Blur the Boundaries and Threaten to Cloud Olympic Dreams Chief Sports Writer Hyder Jawad Meets a Man Who Has to Keep His Eye on the Global BallThe Birmingham Post (England)...
But, alas, politics still plays a part. For example, the UK is 1 country but FIFA used Northern Ireland, England, Scotland and Wales as 4 separate ‘countries’. Despite all using the same British pound, same British passport, having the same British queen and all using the same British ...
Analysis paralysis, grass is greener syndrome, longing for the road not traveled: How the success of the women’s movement has left us stumped in the face of limitless options -- and how to get over it.
disappear from the power center of the sport-media-products jointly created, only a few stand as exceptions. This is the core ideal addressed in Sport Stars: The Cultural Politics of Sporting Celebrity, edited by David. Andrews and Steven J. Jackson.In the opening chapter, the editors tried ...
and has studied FIFA's independence statutes, agrees that Syria represents "a clear case of systemic state interference in domestic and international football, and yet FIFA has chosen not to act. Simply put, it doesn't have the balls to get involved in what is clearly a very nefarious ...
Hands in the Air! Drop That Textbook! This Is the NCAA!Hobart College, a small liberal arts school, recently wassanctioned by the NCAAfor "ineligible participation, impermissible inducements and extra benefits, inconsistent financial aid, and lack of institutional control." The violations involved Ho...
If “defending family honor” is indeed Cruz’s justification for a bold move that undermines his “team’s” chances of winning an important contest, it is not obvious that this helps distinguish politics from team sports. Who can forget Zinedine Zidane’s infamous head-butt, 10 years ago ...
The politics look as impossible as ever. Footnote 1: Living costs don’t matter as much as fees because … Students can live at home: (a) no, they can’t all do that, (b) even for those who can, it will not always be a particularly good idea and (c) even when it’s a good...
In the 1985 survey, Americans by a very large majority, 71%-21%, said that most poor people would probably remain poor. Today, that remains the majority view, but the gap has narrowed somewhat, with 60% seeing poverty as mostly permanent and 33% saying it is a temporary condition that ...