Sports of The Times: Yes, Children, Athletes Are Not Role Models
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The one part of the steroids scandal that outrages me at this late date is that people still expect sports to be the last outpost of fair play.
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Steroids boost the body, but donât expect a âgotchaâ in a playerâs statistics.
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It's that time of year: Kids hit the sports fields running, and often hobble back off. Back to school means back to organized sports for more than 30 million children and teenagers &#151; and roughly 2.5 million emergency-room visits during the year for resulting injuries.
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Football players aren&#39;t into moral victories. It goes against the grain of their rough exteriors and win at all cost mentality.
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Republic sports columnist Paola Boivin sounds like she is too close to the NBA players. It is not the fans, Paola. Of course, the behavior of the fans in Detroit was inexcusable, but Ron Artest is given one directive from the NBA: Do not enter the stands.
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Despite the Mitchell report, which some say deals a blow to baseballâs integrity, fans donât appear to be boycotting the sport. In fact, quite the opposite.
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NEW YORK  - Although media images of the  irate "hockey dad" might suggest otherwise, most hockey fathers  -- and mothers -- seem to value their children's learning  experience over their win records, a new study suggests.
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Usually at sporting events, people know who wins and who loses or who comes in first, second, third and so forth by the score. In fact, there is no other way to run athletic competitions; most would agree
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Philanthropic work by players in recent years is a counterpoint to recent scandals.
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Thousands of kids play soccer for fun, but yearslong involvement with the game can have more health benefits than routine physical activity.
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Awareness of the problem is growing, but few sports are taking vigorous, systematic steps to counteract it.
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SOME COLLEGE students know how to run for their lives. Take cross-country athletes. They do not get the ink. They do not get the television time. They do not have governors, alumni, and 70,000 fans fawning all over them, telling them how critical they are to the mental health of an entire state.
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Two recent events have me thinking that maybe we put too much importance on winning in sports. First, there were reports that baseball superstars Barry Bonds and Jason Giambi took steroids, drugs that can help make players stronger.
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Many athletes exude ideals of Games, from embraces in the pool to a fencing timeout. By Mark Sappenfield | Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor.
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As a student athlete, being 16 is all about balance. You have to juggle school,  sports, friends, family, church, clubs and occasionally sleep
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The extra point is supposed to be a routine play. When you think about it, a lot of it is muscle memory. Snap, hold and a short kick by a former soccer player.
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Contrary to popular  belief, teenage boys are not the masters of the entire video  game universe.