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  Cinema On the Run

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  Adam Cottrel Georgia State University

  March 28, 2013

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  pursuit, in The Coming Community, where "the being proper to humankind is being one’s own possibility ...
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  Legitimizing the Feminine?: Regulation and the Politics of Cheerleading Injuries

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  Bryce McNeil Georgia State University

  May 23, 2011

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  cheerleading.  One possible reason this garners little discussion is that regulation might blur the ... controversially to count it as sport in the NCAA (which, in turn, would qualify it as a possibility for schools to ...
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  A mother Tigress and her Tiger cub

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  Hinda Mandell Rochester Institute of Technology

  December 01, 2011

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  Whoever thought it would be possible to long for the days of a Tiger Woods scandal? Ever since molestation ...
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  Game Mechanics as Emergent Narrative

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  Ryan Clement University of Waterloo

  September 09, 2017

  possible pre-scripted endings forces linearity. Some games—abstract games—eschew scripted narratives for ...
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  The Fist Is Mightier Than The Apology Video

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  Andy Fischer Wright University of Texas at Austin

  January 07, 2019

  micro-celebrity practices combined with athletics as a false path to moral redemption is now a possibility on the ...
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  From Axon to Action: The Devil of Brain Trauma Is in the Details

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  David Castillo Medical Instructor, HeadKickLegend.com

  May 28, 2011

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  From Axon to Action: The Devil of Brain Trauma Is in the Details sports injuries CTE brain and behavior axonal injury Curator's Note While it may seem intuitive to measure brain trauma, specifically the most intense trauma associated with contact spo ...
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  Baseball *Is* All It’s Quacked Up To Be

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  Doug Battema Western New England University

  February 27, 2008

  14 comments

  Baseball *Is* All It’s Quacked Up To Be 1950s amateurs Baseball branding discourse documentaries fandom Ken Burns Madiso Mallards marketing pro-am promos regionalism sports Curator's Note Inning Seven of Ken Burns’ “Baseball” argues that major socioe ...
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  The Disincentives to Combat Concussions in Professional Sports

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  Todd Martin Los Angeles Times, Sherdog.com, Wrestlingobserver.com

  May 25, 2011

  6 comments

  The Disincentives to Combat Concussions in Professional Sports Sports Injuries sports Curator's Note As increased medical research has demonstrated the nature of and dangers related to concussions, sports leagues have moved to protect their players f ...