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" Sports heroes, fallen idols / "
Stanley H. Teitelbaum.
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1018394
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b772764
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Teitelbaum, Stanley H.
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Sports heroes, fallen idols /\ Stanley H. Teitelbaum.
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Lincoln :: University of Nebraska Press,, ©2005.
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1 online resource (xiii, 283 pages)
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0803205392
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: 0803244452
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: 1280423773
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: 9780803205390
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: 9780803244450
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: 9781280423772
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: 9786610423774
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0803244452
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9780803244450
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Subtitle on cover: How star athletes pursue self-destructive paths and jeopardize their careers.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-263) and index.
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Introduction -- The need for heroes -- The psyche of the athlete -- Baseball gambling scandals -- Football gambling scandals -- Basketball gambling scandals -- Self-destructive athletes -- Athletes and violence toward women -- Athletes and murder -- Violence between athletes -- Athletes' mental health problems -- Epilogue.
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On the court and on the field, they are the world's winners, exhibiting a natural grace and prowess their adoring fans can only dream about. Yet so often, when off the field, our sports heroes lose: their perspective, their balance, their place. In a work as timely as the latest fracas on the basketball court or the most recent drug-induced scandal in the dugout, Stanley H. Teitelbaum looks into the circumstances behind so many star athletes' precipitous fall from grace. Why, he asks, do these sports heroes who seem to have it all also seem, increasingly, to have a superhuman proclivity for se.
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Athletes-- United States-- Psychology, Case studies.
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Sports-- Social aspects-- United States, Case studies.
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Athletes-- Psychology.
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Recreation Sports.
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Social Sciences.
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SPORTS RECREATION-- Sports Psychology.
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Sports-- Social aspects.
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United States.
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796/.01
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GV706.4.T43 2005eb
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