1-  You work in the sport and recreation division of a city government. As it faces a budget crisis, you are asked to present arguments for and against privatizing all the city's youth sport programs. List the major points you would include in your presentation.

2- After reading the material on deviance based on overconformity, use your own experience (as an athlete or spectator or friend of an athlete) to identify a form of this deviance in sports. Then explain the origins of the deviance and a course of action a coach might take to control this form of deviance among his/her athletes.

3-  do you think it is possible to have elite sports in which the use of performance enhancing substances does not occur? If you say "yes," then explain how you would maintain a "substance free" environment. If your answer is "no," then explain why it is not possible.

4- Research shows that informal, player-controlled sports are action-centered, whereas organized, adult-controlled sports are rule-centered. Provide examples to illustrate this difference and then explain the implications of this difference for the experiences of young people participating in each of these sport settings.