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Football High Football Head Injuries: From High School to the ProsAugust 23, 2011, 12:34 pm ET · by Gretchen GavettThe lockout’s over. Preseason has begun. But the NFL’s legal troubles are far from over. In late July, 75 former … Continue reading 
Money and March Madness How Will the NCAA Punish Miami?August 19, 2011, 9:55 am ET · by Gretchen GavettThis week’s sports bombshell comes at the hands of Yahoo! Sports reporter Charles Robinson, who’s published a damning investigation into … Continue reading 
NCAA Starts To Move on Player Financial SupportAugust 10, 2011, 3:56 pm ET · by Gretchen GavettNCAA President Mark Emmert convened a two-day retreat yesterday in Indianapolis that includes 50-plus university presidents and other officials. While … Continue reading ARCHIVED PROGRAMS May. 13, 2008Storm Over Everest(120 minutes) Renowned climber/filmmaker David Breashears returns to Everest's worst tragedy to tell the story as it's never before been told... (Web site »)Oct. 12, 1999 Mafia Power Play(60 minutes) FRONTLINE investigates how the tentacles of Russian organized crime have penetrated the National Hockey League. The report exposes how major Russian crime figures are extorting Russian-born players and using their hockey connections to establish a beachhead in the U.S. and Canada. Over the course of a ten-month investigation, FRONTLINE conducted dozens of interviews with sources in the Russian underworld, professional hockey representatives and law enforcement agencies in Russia, the U.S., and Canada.<br><br>FRONTLINE's web site deepens this report with excerpts from congressional hearings and law enforcement reports, plus the extended interviews and profiles of central figures. (Web site »)Apr. 6, 1993 The Trouble with Baseball(60 minutes) As the 1993 baseball season begins, Frontline looks at the power struggle between the owners and players for economic control of Major League baseball and how that battle has led the national pastime to the brink of disaster.Nov. 5, 1991 Don King, Unauthorized(60 minutes) Frontline investigates the life and career of boxing promoter Don King, from his early street hustling days in Cleveland-where he once killed a man who owed him money-to his current position as the top boxing promoter in America. Correspondent Jack Newfield travels to training camps, title matches, and interviews fighters, managers, and trainers to tell the troubling story of a man who is bigger than the sport he promotes.Aug. 12, 1986 Comrades VII: Steel Mill Soccer(60 minutes) Frontline profiles the lives of players on a factory soccer team in the southern Soviet Republic of Azerbaijan as they fight for the town championship.Feb. 19, 1985 Down for the Count(60 minutes) Professional boxing is one of the most popular and profitable sports in America. It can also be fatal. Frontline goes inside the world of fighters, promoters, and fans who love the sport-and critics who say it should be banned.May. 7, 1984 The Other Side of the Track(60 minutes) Horseracing is American's number one spectator sport. In 1982, more that 77 million people wagered almost $12 billion at the nation's racetracks. Frontline gives an insider's look at the 'sport of kings,' focusing on tracks at Belmont, NY, where the rich indulge their interest in racing, and at Great Barrington in Massachussetts where infirm horses run for purses that can barely pay the feed bill.Apr. 23, 1984 Chasing the Basketball Dream(60 minutes) Many young men, especially many poor blacks in the nation's cities, dream of making it big by playing basketball. Charlie Cobb looks at some who make it-and many who will not-and at many of the issues in high school and college sports today. College recruiters seek the best of them, promising an educations in exchange for play. But 75% never get a college degree because, as this film suggests, colleges are too busy with their big-time sports programs to be concerned with educating their players.Jan. 17, 1983 An Unauthorized History of the NFL(60 minutes) In its premiere broadcast, Frontline investigates the underbelly of the NFL--the secret connections between professional football and the world of sports gambling and organized crime. |
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