Sport and Society Helpful Links.

You may begin by checking the EBSCO Host  "Health Source" database on the library web-page.  There are a minimum of 2 articles for many of the outlined topics.

Mapleleaf web.com: An overview of the Vancouver 2010 Olympic bid. Easy to follow info includes an Introduction, Benefits and Drawbaxks, How the IOC Chooses, A Timeline, (where do we go from here) and much more. http://www.mapleleafweb.com/features/global_event/olympics/

Olympic movement- searchable information on the Olympic games and press releases on various aspects of the bidding process. http://www.olympic.org/uk/index_uk.asp

Baseball Salaries Database
This database "contains year-by-year listings of salaries for Major League Baseball players on opening day rosters, 1988 through the current season. The search options here allow you to see salaries for specific players, plus median and total salaries for each team." From data "compiled by USA TODAY sports reporters."
http://asp.usatoday.com/sports/baseball/salaries/
Subjects: Baseball players -- Salaries, etc. | Baseball
Created by kgs - last updated Sep 3, 2003 -

Centre For the Study Of Sport in Society- Northeastern University: http://www.sportinsociety.org/  Click on Resources/links

North American Society for the Sociology of Sport: http://www.uwm.edu/~aycock/nasss/nasss.html click on Links to Other Sport Sociology websitesother links

Professional Women's Sport In America Today. Outlines brief history of many women's sports and the struggle to be recognized professionally and monetarily: http://www.jws.or.jp/english/ProSports.html

Women Athletes Debased by Media Images: http://csf.colorado.edu/forums/m-fem/2000/msg01571.html

Has Winning on the Field Become a Corporate Triumph?: http://www.harvard-magazine.com/on-line/09014.html

The Professionalization of Ivy League Sports
Several years ago, head squash coach Bill Doyle had a problem: a couple of his top players were acting more like stars than team members.
http://www.harvard-magazine.com/issues/so97/ivy.3.html

Mapleleaf web.com: An overview of the Vancouver 2010 Olympic bid. Easy to follow info includes an Introduction, Benefits and Drawbaxks, How the IOC Chooses, A Timeline, (where do we go from here) and much more. http://www.mapleleafweb.com/features/global_event/olympics/