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The Dark Side of Sports

Author : Nick T. Pappas
Publisher : Meyer & Meyer Verlag
ISBN 13 : 1841263389
Total Pages : 394 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (412 download)

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Download or read book The Dark Side of Sports written by Nick T. Pappas and published by Meyer & Meyer Verlag. This book was released on 2012 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Elite-level athletes are placed upon heightened pedestals in societies world-wide. At the same time, there is dark side to these glorified competitors that remains hidden from those outside of exclusive athletic circles. Dr. Nick Pappas' unique background as a former collegiate and professional hockey player and coach in combination with his experience as a researcher, professional counselor, and adjunct professor have provided him with knowledge and inside access to a variety of athlete cultures. This has enabled Dr. Pappas to uncover an array of disturbing sexual behaviors which have silently thrived for decades in many athlete cultures. These practices, expressed through the athletes own words along with their frequencies, motives, and consequences, are the result of over 10 years of cutting-edge research involving in depth interviews with 142 collegiate and professional athletes from five major U.S. sports. While these findings are certain to shock, raise awareness, and provide a wake-up call for those in and outside of the sports world, they also highlight a sense of urgency for taking action against these harmful behaviors now. "The Dark Side of Sports" has strong appeal for diverse audiences because it highlights the need for risk management in every male athletic culture. This includes individuals with direct involvement in sports such as athletes, coaches, managers, administrators, and support staff who see the importance of addressing and deterring potentially harmful and dangerous behavior that can ruin an athletic program's reputation in an instant. At the same time, this book serves as an invaluable resource for parents, women, and fans by raising awareness to the significant issues surrounding a darker, hidden side of sports. The fact that certain negative practices were discovered at the high school level means that millions of middle and high school coaches and athletes, in addition to those at elite levels, need this information to keep deviant practices from gaining a foothold and becoming normalized within youth-oriented sports cultures. Finally, "The Dark Side of Sports" will be a welcomed addition to courses such as sociology of sport, sports psychology, women's studies, and an array of sociology classes including deviant behavior.

Dark Sides of Sport

Author : Jörg Krieger
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781863351492
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (514 download)

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Download or read book Dark Sides of Sport written by Jörg Krieger and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the edited collection "Dark sides of sport", leading international scholars explore multifaceted historical and contemporary challenges for sport. The book includes historical case studies, overviews on specific challenges and conceptual frameworks to explore various threats for sport. Selected topics covered in the book are governance, doping, terrorism, gender testing, sustainability and nationalism. Whilst those aspects have been covered individually by previous research, "Dark sides of sport" provides an insightful overview on threats to sport that allows for the identification of similarities and differences. Therewith, the book attempts to contribute to a better understanding of present political and economic actions within the international sport system. Hence, academics and students from the fields of sport history, sport sociology, sport policy and sport management might find great interest in the book.

Sacked!

Author : Bob Brodhead
Publisher : Beaugard Press
ISBN 13 : 9780944679005
Total Pages : 221 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (79 download)

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Download or read book Sacked! written by Bob Brodhead and published by Beaugard Press. This book was released on 1987 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Dark Side of the Game

Author : Tim Green
Publisher : Grand Central Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0446551007
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (465 download)

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Download or read book The Dark Side of the Game written by Tim Green and published by Grand Central Publishing. This book was released on 2008-11-15 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, 8-year veteran of the NFL Tim Green reveals for the first time the scandals, the horrors, the abuses and also the wonders of playing football

The Sarcastic Sports Trivia Book

Author : Paul Nardizzi
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 0595215645
Total Pages : 166 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (952 download)

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Download or read book The Sarcastic Sports Trivia Book written by Paul Nardizzi and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2002-02 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fact filled sports trivia book that is different from all other trivia books because it is humorous and challenging. Written by stand up comedian and sports fanatic Paul Nardizzi, (he has not spoken to his wife or kids since the satellite dish was put in 4 years ago) this book will have you roaring.

Football's Dark Side: Corruption, Homophobia, Violence and Racism in the Beautiful Game

Author : Ellis Cashmore
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137371277
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (373 download)

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Download or read book Football's Dark Side: Corruption, Homophobia, Violence and Racism in the Beautiful Game written by Ellis Cashmore and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-05-02 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Association football is the richest, most popular sport in history with a multicultural global following. It is also riven with corruption, racism, homophobia and a violence that has for decades resisted all attempts to tame it. Cashmore and Cleland examine football's dark side: the unpleasant, sleazy and downright nasty aspects of the sport.

Night Games

Author : Anna Krien
Publisher : Black Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1922231401
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (222 download)

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Download or read book Night Games written by Anna Krien and published by Black Inc.. This book was released on 2014-03-26 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 2014 Davitt Award for Best True Crime Book and the 2014 William Hill Sports Book of the Year ‘The Pies beat the Saints and the city of Melbourne was still cloaked in black and white crepe paper when the rumour of a pack rape by celebrating footballers began to surface ... And so, as police were confiscating bedsheets from a townhouse in South Melbourne, the trial by media began.’ What does a young footballer do to cut loose? At night, some play what they think of as pranks, or games: night games with women. Sometimes these involve consensual sex, sometimes not, and often the lines are blurred. In Night Games, Anna Krien follows the rape trial of an Australian Rules footballer. She also takes a balanced and fearless look at the dark side of footy culture – the world of Sam Newman, Ricky Nixon, Matty Johns and the Cronulla Sharks. Both a courtroom drama and a riveting work of narrative journalism, this is a breakthrough book by one of the leading young lights of Australian writing. Shortlisted for the 2013 Walkley Non-Fiction Book Award, the 2014 Adelaide Festival Award for Non-Fiction, the 2014 Stella Prize, and the 2014 Western Australian Premier's Book Award for Non-Fiction. ‘The work of a compassionate and expansive intelligence.’ – Sydney Morning Herald ‘For every superstar, club CEO, boundary rider, bar-propper and park footballer, it should be mandatory reading.’ – Sunday Age ‘A balanced and powerful exploration of the grey area of sexual assault’ – Advertiser ‘Night Games a serious addition to the literature on sport, sex, consent and power.’ – the Australian Anna Krien is the author of Night Games, Into the Woods and Quarterly Essay 45 Us and Them. Her work has been published in the Monthly, the Age, the Big Issue, The Best Australian Essays, The Best Australian Stories, Griffith Review, Voiceworks, Going Down Swinging, Colors, Frankie and Dazed & Confused.

Handbook of Trait Narcissism

Author : Anthony D. Hermann
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319921711
Total Pages : 473 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (199 download)

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Download or read book Handbook of Trait Narcissism written by Anthony D. Hermann and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-09-27 with total page 473 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This unique reference surveys current theoretical and empirical advances in understanding individual differences in narcissistic personality, as well as the latest perspectives on controversies in the field. Wide-ranging expert coverage examines the many manifestations of narcissism, including grandiose, vulnerable, communal, and collective varieties. Narcissism’s etiology, the role of social media culture in its maintenance and amplification, and the complex phenomena of narcissistic leadership, spirituality, friendship, and love are just a snapshot of topics that are examined. The book’s section on intrapersonal processes delves into how the narcissistic mind works, as well as how narcissists feel about themselves and their peers. It also investigates narcissists’ grasp of emotions. Chapters explore associated personality traits and numerous other important correlates of narcissistic personality. New approaches to research, assessment methods, and opportunities for intervention—both immediate and long-term, are discussed throughout. In addition, trait narcissism is examined in an even-handed manner that incorporates state-of-the-art research into antecedents and consequences (both good and bad) of narcissistic personality. Among the topics in the Handbook: What separates narcissism from self-esteem? A social-cognitive perspective. The many measures of grandiose narcissism. Parents’ socialization of narcissism in children. What do narcissists know about themselves? Exploring the bright spots and blind spots of narcissists’ self-knowledge. Understanding and mitigating narcissists’ low empathy. Interpersonal functioning of narcissistic individuals and implications for treatment engagement. Offering nuanced analysis of a particularly timely subject, The Handbook of Trait Narcissism is fascinating and informative reading for psychologists and psychology students, as well as scholars in anthropology, sociology, economics, political scientists, and more.

Baseball Cop

Author : Eddie Dominguez
Publisher : Hachette Books
ISBN 13 : 0316483990
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (164 download)

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Download or read book Baseball Cop written by Eddie Dominguez and published by Hachette Books. This book was released on 2018-08-28 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exposing trafficking, theft, fraud, and gambling in the major leagues, a founding member of the MLB's Department of Investigations reveals a news-breaking true story of power and corruption. In the wake of 2005's sometimes contentious, sometimes comical congressional hearings on performance-enhancing drugs in baseball and the subsequent Mitchell Report, Major League Baseball established the Department of Investigations (DOI). An internal and autonomous unit, it was created to not only eliminate the use of steroids, but also to rid baseball of any other illegal, unsavory, or unethical activities. The DOI would investigate the dark side of the national pastime--gambling, age and identity fraud, human trafficking, cover-ups, and more--with the singular purpose of cleaning up the game. Eduardo Dominguez Jr. was a founding member of that first DOI team, leaving a stellar career with the Boston Police Department to join four other "supercops"--a group that included a 9/11 hero, a mob-buster, and narcotics experts--keeping watch over Major League Baseball. A decorated detective as well as a member of an FBI task force, Dominguez was initially reluctant to leave his law-enforcement career to work full-time in baseball. He had already seen the game's underbelly when he worked as a resident security agent (RSA) for the Boston Red Sox in 1999 and become wary of the game's commitment to any kind of reform. Only at the persuasion a widely respected NYPD detective tapped to lead the DOI did Dominguez agree to join the unit, which was the first--and last--of its kind in major American sports. "We could clean up this game," his new boss promised. In Baseball Cop, Dominguez shares the shocking revelations he confronted every day for six years with the DOI and nine as an RSA. He shines a light on the inner workings of the commissioner's office and the complicity of baseball's bosses in dealing with the misdeeds compromising the integrity of the game. Dominguez details the investigations and the obstacles--from the Biogenesis scandal to the perilous trafficking of Cuban players now populating the game to the theft of prospects' signing bonuses by buscones, street agents, and even clubs' employees. He further reveals how the mandates of former senator George Mitchell's report were modified or ignored altogether. Bracing and eye-opening, Baseball Cop is a wake-up call for anyone concerned about America's national pastime.

The Dark Side of Game Play

Author : Torill Elvira Mortensen
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 131757446X
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (175 download)

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Download or read book The Dark Side of Game Play written by Torill Elvira Mortensen and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-06-05 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Games allow players to experiment and play with subject positions, values and moral choice. In game worlds players can take on the role of antagonists; they allow us to play with behaviour that would be offensive, illegal or immoral if it happened outside of the game sphere. While contemporary games have always handled certain problematic topics, such as war, disasters, human decay, post-apocalyptic futures, cruelty and betrayal, lately even the most playful of genres are introducing situations in which players are presented with difficult ethical and moral dilemmas. This volume is an investigation of "dark play" in video games, or game play with controversial themes as well as controversial play behaviour. It covers such questions as: Why do some games stir up political controversies? How do games invite, or even push players towards dark play through their design? Where are the boundaries for what can be presented in a games? Are these boundaries different from other media such as film and books, and if so why? What is the allure of dark play and why do players engage in these practices?

The Dark Side

Author : Anthony O'Neill
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1501110659
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (11 download)

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Download or read book The Dark Side written by Anthony O'Neill and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2016-06-28 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this gripping sci-fi noir for fans of The Martian and Quentin Tarantino, when an anarchic android begins wreaking havoc on a moon-based penal colony and bodies start turning up, an exiled detective must decide who he can trust in a city of criminals. Never bang your head against a wall. Bang someone else’s. Purgatory is the lawless moon colony of eccentric billionaire, Fletcher Brass and mecca for war criminals, murderers, and curious tourists alike. You can’t find better drugs, cheaper plastic surgery, or a more ominous travel advisory anywhere in the universe. But trouble is brewing in Brass’s black-market heaven. When an exiled cop comes to enact law and order in this wild new frontier, he finds himself the lead investigator in a series of high-profile murders that puts him toe to toe with the city’s charismatic founder and his equally ambitious daughter. Meanwhile, 2000 km away a memory-wiped android, Leonardo Black rampages across the lunar surface. Programmed with only the notorious “Brass Code”—a compendium of corporate laws that would make Ayn Rand blush—he journeys across the dark side of the moon with only one goal in mind: find Purgatory and conquer it.

An Economic Roadmap to the Dark Side of Sport

Author : Wladimir Andreff
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030284565
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (32 download)

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Download or read book An Economic Roadmap to the Dark Side of Sport written by Wladimir Andreff and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2019-10-04 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Palgrave Pivot provides a comprehensive overview of economic aspects to criminal behaviour in sport. It addresses manipulations, dysfunctions, distortions and crimes triggered by economic interests or pure greed in sports, and challenges the governance of this important industry. Topics covered include hazing, sabotage, refereeing bias, technological manipulations, tanking, bad management, financial doping, ticket touting, circumventing the law through sport, discrimination and child labour. The book is divided into three volumes. Volume I covers those economic manipulations that breach sports rules, sporting integrity, violate managerial rules and the law, and infringe human rights in sport. It builds up a typology of sport manipulations which makes sense from an economic standpoint, not only from a sporting or judicial perspective. Volumes II and III (available separately) focus on Corruption and Economic Crime in Sport, respectively. This book will be of interest to students, researchers and journalists in sports science, sports management and sports economics.

Sporting Blood

Author : Carlos Acevedo
Publisher : Hamilcar Publications
ISBN 13 : 9781949590074
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (9 download)

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Download or read book Sporting Blood written by Carlos Acevedo and published by Hamilcar Publications. This book was released on 2020-03-31 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "I just read Carlos Acevedo on Davey Moore in Boxing News and I think he may well be the best boxing writer in the world today."--Danny Flexen, Boxing Monthly Sporting Blood is a new collection of twenty-one essays by multiple award-winning boxing writer and historian Carlos Acevedo. The book's foreword was written by Thomas Hauser, Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award nominee, who is widely recognized as one of the world's preeminent boxing authors. Highlights of Acevedo's collection include a tour de force piece about Muhammad Ali at the time of his death, as well as an incisive look at his fearsome rival, the enigmatic heavyweight Charles "Sonny" Liston. Acevedo also applies his rare talent to uncovering untold stories about fighters that include Jack Johnson, Roberto Duran, Esteban de Jesus, Carmelo Negron, Aaron Pryor, Don Jordan, Joe Frazier, Johnny Saxton, Wilfredo Gomez, Lupe Pintor, Davey Moore, Johnny Tapia, Mike Tyson, Bert Cooper, Evander Holyfield, Jake LaMotta, Ad Wolgast, Tony Ayala, Jr., Al Singer, Michael Dokes, Eddie Machen, Mike Quarry, and more.

The Dark Side of Creativity

Author : David H. Cropley
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139490079
Total Pages : 409 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (394 download)

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Download or read book The Dark Side of Creativity written by David H. Cropley and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2010-06-30 with total page 409 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With few exceptions, scholarship on creativity has focused on its positive aspects while largely ignoring its dark side. This includes not only creativity deliberately aimed at hurting others, such as crime or terrorism, or at gaining unfair advantages, but also the accidental negative side effects of well-intentioned acts. This book brings together essays written by experts from various fields (psychology, criminal justice, sociology, engineering, education, history, and design) and with different interests (personality development, mental health, deviant behavior, law enforcement, and counter-terrorism) to illustrate the nature of negative creativity, examine its variants, call attention to its dangers, and draw conclusions about how to prevent it or protect society from its effects.

My Dark Side of the NFL

Author : Keith Alvin McCants
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781727214147
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (141 download)

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Download or read book My Dark Side of the NFL written by Keith Alvin McCants and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-11-10 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I heard all about fame and fortune as a star linebacker playing for my beloved Alabama Crimson Tide. I suited up with Derek Thomas, the best damn defensive end that I've ever seen. We broke our backs and dripped our sweat on the same set of stadium steps. I was an elite linebacker from Alabama. Hell, that's damn near royalty when it comes to football. I'm not sure when disappointment replaced excitement for me. Maybe it was on draft day 1990, when I believed I should have gone off of the board first, or maybe it was on the sidelines, while a NFL coach towered over my injured body and screamed at me to get back into the game. All I know for sure is that it left and there was a giant gaping hole just waiting to be filled by something. That something for me took the form of drugs. Drugs that I had never even heard of before until I stepped inside of a NFL locker room. My assent on the path to fame and fortune was fast, like a missile being launched into space. The decline was much slower, like a snowball rolling down a mountain. It grew larger and larger in size and speed. Eventually it reached the bottom of the mountain and crashed leaving my dreams smashed and broken. This is they story about my journey into the NFL, but it is much more than that. This is a story about a kid, who lost his innocence long before he was a multimillionaire. It's about secret conversations and pill lines. It's about playing injured and seeing my friends lost to the newfound phenomenon of CTE. Dreams are born and dreams die, and sometimes like in my case, they are stolen. I'm Keith McCants and this is my story.

The I in Team

Author : Erin C. Tarver
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022647013X
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (264 download)

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Download or read book The I in Team written by Erin C. Tarver and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2017-06-26 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is one sound that will always be loudest in sports. It isn’t the squeak of sneakers or the crunch of helmets; it isn’t the grunts or even the stadium music. It’s the deafening roar of sports fans. For those few among us on the outside, sports fandom—with its war paint and pennants, its pricey cable TV packages and esoteric stats reeled off like code—looks highly irrational, entertainment gone overboard. But as Erin C. Tarver demonstrates in this book, sports fandom has become extraordinarily important to our psyche, a matter of the very essence of who we are. Why in the world, Tarver asks, would anyone care about how well a total stranger can throw a ball, or hit one with a bat, or toss one through a hoop? Because such activities and the massive public events that surround them form some of the most meaningful ritual identity practices we have today. They are a primary way we—as individuals and a collective—decide both who we are who we are not. And as such, they are also one of the key ways that various social structures—such as race and gender hierarchies—are sustained, lending a dark side to the joys of being a sports fan. Drawing on everything from philosophy to sociology to sports history, she offers a profound exploration of the significance of sports in contemporary life, showing us just how high the stakes of the game are.

An Economic Roadmap to the Dark Side of Sport

Author : Wladimir Andreff
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030284794
Total Pages : 107 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (32 download)

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Download or read book An Economic Roadmap to the Dark Side of Sport written by Wladimir Andreff and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2019-09-20 with total page 107 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Palgrave Pivot surveys facts and cases exhibiting and exemplifying corruption in sport. The standard economic theory (economics of crime, game theory) is introduced alongside the economic methods (sanctions, etc.) which are currently derived from it to combat corrupt sport and their limitations. The complexity and multidimensional nature of sports corruption are examined, and a focus is applied to certain types of corruption that are unique to the sports industry. Corruption is revealed to be the outcome of weak and deficient governance structures. The book is divided into three volumes. Volume II presents a variety of corruption facts in different sports, in different countries and continents in order to exhibit how much corrupt sport is globalised. Some changes in governance are suggested that may pave the way to more effective combat against corruption in sports. Volumes I and III (available separately) address Sport Manipulations and Economic Crime in Sport, respectively. This book will be of interest to students, researchers and journalists in sports science, sports management and sports economics.