The NCAA News

6 THE NCAA NEWS/March 11,1992
13 research projects considered
Four of the NCAA Research
Committee proposals recommended
to the NCAA Executive Committee
deal with governance and nine are
sports-sciences projects.
The committee recommended
l’unding for the 13 projects at its
February 17-19 meeting in Kansas
City, Missouri.
The studies on governance include:
l “Assessing Risk Management
Practices in NCAA Programs,” by
James T. Ciirvan
University.
of Idaho State
.“I993 NCAA Ice Hockcy/Lacrosse
(Men’s) Championship Patron
Analysis,” by Richard I,. Irwin
of Kent State University.
l “Television, the Antitrust Laws,
and the Conflict Between Home
Rule and a National NCAA Policy
195Os- 198Os,” by Ronald A. Smith
of Pennsylvania State Ilniversity~
-
Approved studies in sports
scicnccs include:
@“Proposal for a Second Repli-
cation of a National Study of the
Substance Use and Abuse Habits of
Collcgc Student-Athletes,” by Wil-
liam A. Anderson and Richard R.
Albrccht of Michigan State Univcr-
sity.
BEATTHE
SMOKELESSHABIII:
Book probes
smokeless
tobacco use
“Beat the Smokeless Tobacco
Habit,” a publication produced by
the NCAA, Major League Baseball
and the National Cancer Institute,
is being distributed to all baseball
student-athletes at NCAA member
institutions.
The 16-page, full-color booklet
provides extensive information on
smokeless tobacco, including the
dangers of use (with graphic pho-
tography of the potentially fatal
damage created by the habit) and
instructions on how an athlete can
determine if he or she is addicted.
Also featured are the negative
experiences that several major-
league players have had with smoke-
less tobacco.
The last half of the publication
includes a detailed “nine-inning
game plan” on how to quit smoke-
less tobacco.
“Recent surveys have shown that
35 to 45 percent of professional
baseball players are using smokeless
tohacco,“NCAA Executive Director
Richard D. Schultz said. “Even
higher proportions of college play-
ers, over 70 percent in some regions,
are doing so. These high rates 01 use
are unprecedented, and they are
particularly disturbing because most
players, college and professional,
are dipping snuff the most harm
ful and addictive form of spitting
tobacco.”
Schultz. asked trainers to distrib-
utc the booklets in a setting so that
baseball student-athletes, coaches
and athletics stall will be encouraged
to discuss tobacco-use issues.
AAU GIRLS BASKHBALL
OBSERVATION TOURNAMENT
High school seniors only.
April 11 & 12,1992
In
Valparaiso, Indiana
for more Inlormataon,
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l ‘Yiendcr Differences in the Center
of Buoyancy Location of Competitive
Swimmers,” by Richard N.
Hinrichs
sity.
of Arirona State Univerl
“AIDS Knowledge, Attitudes,
and Behaviors of College Athletes,”
by Barry P. Hunt, Thomas .I. Pujol
and John P. Muclko ol’ Northwestern
State University (Louisiana).
l “Cardiovascular Effects of Ana-
bolic Steroid Use,” by Richard H.
Kennedy, Jon P. Lindemann and
John I,. VanderSchilden of the IJni-
versity of Arkansas, Little Rock.
l “lJsing Video to Improve Athlctic
Performance,” Michael G. Lacourse
of California
ty, Long Beach.
State Universi-
@“The Reduction of Impact
Forces Experienced by Female Athlctes
During Landing Activities,” by
Jill McNitt-Gray of the University
of Southern California.
l “National Center for Catastrophic
Sports Injury Research,”
by Fred 0. Mueller of the University
of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.
l “Psycho-Social Predictors of
Goal Discrepancy and Role Conflict
in Student-Athletes,” by Robert M.
Sellers of the University of Virginia.
@“The Effects of Phenylpropanolamine
and Pseudoephedrine on
Maximal Exercise Performance,”
by Randall Swain, J. Baezinger and
J. Edwards of Indiana
Bloomington.
(Jniversity,
Sports medicine
USOC publishes three reports
The United States Olympic Committee and the International Cehter for
Sports Nutrition have published three review papers: “Iron and Physical
Performance,” “ Vegetarianism ~ Implications for Athletes” and “Protein.”
“Iron and Physical Performance ” takes a look at the effects of iron
deficiency on performance, factors contributing to poor iron status of
athletes, iron supplementation and iron overload.
“Vegetarianism” reviews the nutritional status of those practicing it and
discusses its benefits, and compares those benefits with the potential risks
of a vegetarian diet.
“Protein” examines the present knowledge of protein and physical
performance. It covers protein requirements of endurance and weight-
training athletes and examines the myth surrounding the use of protein and
amino-acid supplements.
These reports are available for $4 per copy, including postage and
handling, from Barb Connelly, International Center for Sports Nutrition,
502 South 44th Street, Room 3012, Omaha, Nebraska 68105-1065. The
telephone number is 412/559-5505.
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