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  The Greatest Sports Year: 1991
Sports Illustrated magazine, just after 1998 was safely in the rear-view mirror, said that that year was the greatest sports year ever.
The year of 1991 was a better sports year than 1998, and the best way to prove it is to go sport by sport.
The 1991 baseball season has nothing to compare with Mac and Sammy's summer of ’98; that event is the reason most people consider 1998 the greatest sports year in history.
www.sportshistory.us /1991.html   (1439 words)

  
  ACP-ASIM: Scientific Policy: Spotlight   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Sports medicine encompasses the use of exercise prescriptions in the prevention and treatment of many health problems, including cardiovascular disease, overweight, hypertension, obstructive lung disease, and diabetes.
The perspective of sports medicine is a continuum that often begins at the time of the preparticipation examination, during which past injuries and underlying medical problems can be evaluated as they relate to athletic participation of any sort.
The American Medical Society for Sports Medicine (AMSSM), founded in 1991, is a national society of 600 primary care sports medicine physicians who share a common philosophy, body of knowledge, and expertise related to sports medicine.
www.acponline.org /sci-policy/spotlight/sportsmed.htm   (1093 words)

  
 Sinhalese Sports Club v Kalutara Physical Culture Centre at Colombo, 15-17 Nov 1991
Sinhalese Sports Club v Kalutara Physical Culture Centre at Colombo, 15-17 Nov 1991
Sinhalese Sports Club v Kalutara Physical Culture Centre
However these two boys were at the same time representing their school at a cricket match against Alutgama Vidyalaya
www.cricinfo.com /link_to_database/ARCHIVE/1991-92/SL_LOCAL/SARA/SSC_KPCC_SARA_15-17NOV1991.html   (134 words)

  
 Feminist Majority Foundation
Getting interested and involved in sports is difficult for women and girls with disabilities because of the limited exposure they get to sports, especially when they are young.
Nondisabled people learn sports primarily through their families when they are children.
Sports sway the focus from people's disabilities and place attention on their abilities.
www.feminist.org /sports/disability.html   (1224 words)

  
 Programs - Women in Sports
More girls and women play sports than ever before in American history, with millions competing in youth leagues, high school, college, and at the professional level, where tennis, golf, soccer and basketball are surging in popularity.
As a growing number of girls and women are becoming part of the sports culture and are influenced by it, it's instructive to look at the experience of women athletes, especially how they challenged attitudes and assumptions about competition and expectations.
Nicknamed after Babe Ruth for her prodigious feats, she excelled at numerous sports, including baseball, basketball, track and field, swimming, skating, and golf - she was a founder of the LPGA tour - despite limited opportunities for females in the 1930s and '40s.
www.yogiberramuseum.org /prog_womeninsports.html   (1699 words)

  
 Department of Orthopaedic Surgery
Gregory W. Stewart MD, co-director of the Sports Medicine Program, is board certified in Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation and has been involved in various aspects of sports medicine for more than twenty years.
He is the current Director of Education for the Louisiana Sports Medicine Society and sits on the Sports Medicine Committee of the Louisiana State Medical Society.
The Sports Medicine Center of Excellence desires to "treat the athlete in everyone." The program offers specialized training oriented to returning the injured athletes to 100% of their ability and competitive condition.
www.som.tulane.edu /ortho/sports_med.htm   (337 words)

  
 Brain Injury In Sports
An estimated 300,000 sports related traumatic brain injuries, TBIs, of mild to moderate severity, most of which can be classified as concussions, (i.e., conditions of temporary altered mental status as a result of head trauma, occur in the United States each year.
During October 1991, a 17-year-old high school football player was tackled on the last day of the first half of a varsity game and struck his head on the ground.
The American Academy of Neurology has adopted recommendations for the management of concussion in sports that are designed to prevent second impact syndrome and to reduce the frequency of other cumulative brain injuries related to sports.
www.headinjury.com /sports.htm   (2805 words)

  
 Women In Sports
Her decision to join women soccer before becoming a referee was a welcome development for the sport in Egypt, and appreciated by Sahar El Hawary the pioneer of women soccer in the country.
Some of her glorious moments include gold in both Discuss and shot put in 1991 All African Games in Cairo, and a Shot put gold in Zimbabwe'95 before retiring from athletics field events in favour of her favourite sport, soccer.
She participated in the first women's soccer league in 1991, which she won with reigning champions Maaden Club.
www.womensoccer.com /refs/wsports/wis-egypt_15feb01.html   (605 words)

  
 ESPN.com - SPECIAL - Marijuana
The proportion of those seniors who believed regular use of marijuana was harmful in 1998 had dropped by about 26 percent since 1991.
Within minutes of inhalation of marijuana smoke, blood levels are achieved, with peak physiologic and subjective effects occurring in 20 to 30 minutes and subjective effects lasting two to four hours.
There is not a uniform policy regarding drug testing in either professional or amateur sports.
espn.go.com /special/s/drugsandsports/mari.html   (681 words)

  
 Concussion in Sports
The Concussion in Sport Group proposed a very general (and lengthy) defini-tion in 2001 which begins, "concussion is defined as a complex pathophysiological process af-fecting the brain, induced by traumatic biomechanical forces" and continues for 5 more para-graphs.
Concussion can occur in almost any sport, but has a higher incidence in those sports where high velocity collisions between players or between a player and an immovable object are prevalent.
Ongoing education of providers as to the existence of concussion in sports guidelines is necessary to insure appropriate and thorough evaluation of concussed athletes on the field, in the office and in the emergency department.
www.ferne.org /Lectures/tbi_concussion_Sports_cantrill_2003.htm   (4671 words)

  
 Division of Sports Medicine
He then went to medical school at the Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine and graduated in 1991.
Johns Medical System in Detroit and Fellowship in Sports Medicine and Arthroscopy at Michigan State University under the direction of Dr. Herb Ross.
He spent five years as part of MSU Sports Medicine where he was team physician before leaving to go into private practice.
www.rad.msu.edu /SportsMed/pages/bios/dietzelbio.htm   (210 words)

  
 Trinity Center for Women and Girls in Sports   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Girls who participate in sports are less likely to get involved with drugs, less likely to become pregnant and more likely to graduate from high school than those who do not play sports.
Women who are active in sports and recreational activities as girls feel greater confidence, self-esteem and pride in their physical and social selves than those who were sedentary as kids.
Outside of school settings, while opportunities for girls and women to participate in organized sports and recreational opportunities remain limited, there is a growing interest in adult women's teams and athletic activities ranging from soccer and hockey to rock climbing and kayaking.
www.trinitydc.edu /trinity_center/women.htm   (629 words)

  
 Teen Pregnancy Prevention: Fact Sheets - Teen Pregnancy and Athletic Involvement
These interrelationships are further highlighted by two important trends: the teen birth rate has declined 31 percent between 1991 and 2002,2 and over approximately this same period, young women's participation in high school athletics increased by 47 percent.
When girls in poor neighborhoods participate in sports or other physical activities, they report higher levels of self-esteem and wait longer before having sex for the first time.
Young female athletes in grades 9-12, particularly African-American girls, are less likely to combine sex with drugs and alcohol than are their non-athlete peers, a key risk factor in becoming pregnant and contracting sexually transmitted diseases.
www.teenpregnancy.org /resources/reading/fact_sheets/sports.asp   (727 words)

  
 Bibliography - Sports Injuries/Medicine - NCIPC
Sports medicine secrets: questions you will be asked...
Potparic O, Gibson J. A dictionary of sports injuries and disorders.
Scuderi GR, Kelly IS. Sports medicine: principles of primary care.
www.cdc.gov /ncipc/pub-res/injbkbib/sports.htm   (237 words)

  
 Kids.Net.Au - Encyclopedia > 1991
March 14 - After 16 years in prison for allegedly bombing a pub in an Irish Republican Army attack, the "Birmingham Six[?]" are freed when a court determines that the police fabricated evidence.
March 15 - Four Los Angeles, California police officers are indicted for the videotaped March 3, 1991 beating of motorist Rodney King during an arrest.
March-April - Iraqi forces suppress rebellions in the southern and northern parts of the country, creating a humanitarian disaster on the borders of Turkey and Iran
www.kids.net.au /encyclopedia-wiki/19/1991   (1352 words)

  
 Profiles In Sports... Hawaiian Xtreme Sports
As co-producers of the wildly successful local television series Hawaiian Xtreme Sports, their job is to capture surfing, as well as all the other wild water sports the islands have to offer, for the small screen.
Their life stories prove that you can make it in sports television, no matter what your career background.
Alex was an excellent editor; we started working together and re-worked Hawaiian Xtreme Sports into a solid premiere episode, bought airtime on a local station, and launched the show in December 1998.
www.sportstvproduction.com /articles/publish/printer_6.shtml   (1014 words)

  
 AsianWeek.com: Sports: Hit 'n' Run   (Site not responding. Last check: )
The disease ended his career prematurely, but that was before he led the Minnesota Twins to two world championships in 1987 and 1991.
Puckett single-handedly carried the Twins that day by singling, tripling, stealing a base, scoring two runs, driving in three, robbing Ron Gant of extra bases with a Puckett-esque jumping catch against the wall, and winning the game in the bottom of the 11th inning with a solo home run.
Ohka was 2-5 with a 6.19 ERA for the Red Sox before being sent down to Triple-A Pawtucket … Three sportswriters covering Major League Baseball have become the first Japanese selected to join the Baseball Writers Association of America, one of the oldest groups for sportswriters in the U.S., dating back to 1908.
www.asianweek.com /2001_08_10/sports_hitnrun.html   (377 words)

  
 1991 Sportsman of the Year
He has surpassed every standard by which we gauge the fame of an athlete and, with few exceptions, has handled the adulation with preternatural grace and ease that have cut across lines of race, age and gender.
By 1991, Michael Jordan was a two-time league MVP.
He had led the NBA in scoring for five years and had taken the Bulls to their first NBA Championship.
sportsillustrated.cnn.com /features/1996/sportsman/past/1991.html   (132 words)

  
 The Physician and Sportsmedicine: Viral Skin Infections
Contact sports, such as wrestling or rugby, have a higher rate of viral skin infections than do noncontact sports.
Two sports with a high degree of close contact have specifically coined terms for HSV infection.
Characterized by discrete, white to skin-colored, umbilicated papules that are 3 to 5 mm in diameter (figure 2), molluscum contagiosum is caused by a virus in the Poxviridae family.
www.physsportsmed.com /issues/2004/0704/cyr.htm   (2531 words)

  
 Keeler named most outstanding student-athlete - NCAA Sports.com
In doubles, Keeler was again a four-time All-American and won an unprecedented three straight doubles titles--once with Caryn Cranston (1990) and twice with Erin Hendricks (1991, 92);.
Today, the NCAA sponsors 44 women's championships in 20 sports, providing more than 150,000 women with an opportunity to compete for national titles each year.
The panel consisted of current and former coaches, athletics administrators, sports information directors, and coaches association members, who used historical data and championship results to make their decision.
www.ncaasports.com /tennis/womens/story/9417648   (458 words)

  
 List of sports events
Each year is annotated with a significant event as a reference point.
1993 in sports - Monica Seles is stabbed during a tennis tournament
1991 in sports - Magic Johnson retires from basketball
www.gamesinathens.com /olympics/l/li/list_of_sports_events.shtml   (585 words)

  
 Division III 25th Anniversary Team - NCAA Sports.com
The NCAA is celebrating the 25th Anniversary of Women's Championships in several sports during the 2005-06 season.
In addition to recognizing the outstanding accomplishments of the student-athletes, coaches who had an impact in championship play over the years are also being recognized for their efforts.
The panel, which consisted of current and former coaches; athletics administrators; and sports information directors used historical data and results from online public voting at www.ncaasports.com to make its decision.
www.ncaasports.com /basketball/womens/story/9220443   (364 words)

  
 1991 Minnesota Twins World Series Champions 13" x 16" Healy Plaque
OnlineSports.com is your premier source for all things sports, including jerseys, sports jerseys, throwback jerseys, sports jewelry, sports apparel, sports memorabilia, sports fan gear, sports books, sports videos, sports dvds, sports accessories, and so much more.
We carry everything from bleachers and billiards, to information on sports medicine, sports nutrition, coaching, footwear, boating, cycling, sports travel and sports tickets.
If it's sports equipment there's a good chance we've got it: track and field equipment, fitness equipment, camping equipment, basketball equipment, playground equipment, exercise equipment, baseball equipment, to name just a few.
www.onlinesports.com /pages/I,STKS-1991twins.html   (250 words)

  
 The Ultimate 1991 - American History Information Guide and Reference   (Site not responding. Last check: )
1991 is a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar.
Four Los Angeles, California police officers are indicted for the videotaped March 3, 1991 beating of motorist Rodney King during an arrest.
Germany formally regains complete independence after the four post-World War II occupying powers (France, the United Kingdom, the United States and the Soviet Union) relinquish all remaining rights.
www.historymania.com /american_history/1991   (2656 words)

  
 Sally Harris, M.D., MPH
She is jointly trained in pediatrics and non-surgical sports medicine and specializes in pediatric and adolescent sports medicine.
In addition to her work in the Sports Medicine Department, Dr. Harris is also a physician in PAMF's Pediatrics Department and a clinical instructor of pediatrics at Stanford University.
Among her professional interests and specialties are sports injuries of children and adolescents; evaluation and treatment of problems in female athletes; exercise counseling for health promotion and disease prevention; and rehabilitation of athletes.
www.pamf.org /sports/staff/harris.html   (434 words)

  
 DC Sports 4-2-1 Two Piece Ceramic Header Acura Integra 1990-1991 AHC6003
The DC Sports O2 wire extension harness is constructed from OEM components and includes a harness that allows you to connect the extension directly to the factory wire without any modifications.
The DC Sports 4-2-1 header units are designed to enhance power in the mid and high power band while the DC Sports 4-1 header units are designed for racing applications where the vehicle is being driven at or near redline.
The DC Sports 4-2-1 1-piece header design should have better airflow due to less air flow distortion but the 2-piece design is easier to install.
www.raceinspired.com /p-748-dc-sports-4-2-1-two-piece-ceramic-header-acura-integra-1990-1991.aspx   (880 words)

  
 Player Bio: Dena Head :: Women's Basketball
While with Tennessee, the Lady Vols were National Champions in 1989 and 1991.
In the 1991 championship game, she scored a game-high 28 points and was named to the All-Final Four Team.
Head graduated from Tennessee in 1992 with a degree in sports management.
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