that--unlike most other professional athletes--football players are evaluated by position-specific statistics. The authors …

that prohibits athletic scholarships and holds its varsity athletes to high academic standards. The theoretical model … performance success. In addition, the authors hypothesize that institutions whose athletes' academic credentials are close to … those of their class as a whole should have poorer records than those that accept scholar athletes whose credentials are …

The objective of this paper is to measure and compare the subjective time discounting of professional athletes and non-athletes …. By using a questionnaire, we found higher subjective discounting for professional athletes than for non-athletes. We also … found that the professional athletes' win-orientation positively affected their present preferences. On the other hand …

– truancy among active male athletes declines significantly, with the effects larger in earlier grades and for black and …

The financial troubles of professional athletes are an ongoing topic of intrigue. In general, the zealousness brought …