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Sell, Jesse (Jesse Colin). "E-sports broadcasting." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/97996.
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Thesis: S.M., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Comparative Media Studies, 2015.Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 94-100).
In this work, I situate e-sports broadcasting within the larger sports media industrial complex, discuss e-sportscasters, and investigate the economics behind the growing e-sports industry. E-sports, often referred to as competitive or professional gaming, stands as a prime example of the merger of work and play. A growing body of literature has started focusing on this pastime turned profession. As more professionals enter the scene and audiences continue to grow, e-sports broadcasters look towards older models of broadcasting to inform their own style. This reapplication of former conventions stands in contrast to the trends in the larger sports media trajectory. E-sports broadcasting is largely informed by traditional sports broadcasting, yet remains unable to fully capture the success of the global sports industry. On-air talent, once informed solely by traditional sportscasters are now looking to their fellow e-sportscasters to create something new. Revenue streams which form the foundation of the sports industry are making their way into e-sports but not in the way that one might expect. Through a variety of qualitative methods, including historical analysis, interviews, and fieldwork, I have investigated e-sports broadcasting to better evaluate the role traditional sports broadcasting has played in shaping the e-sports industry. This work looks not only to what e-sports broadcasters have borrowed from prior sports media, but also where they have innovated.
by Jesse Sell.
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Stein, Abraham D. (Abraham Daniel). "Televisual sports videogames." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/81081.
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Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Comparative Media Studies, 2013.Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.
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Over the three decade long history of sports videogame development, design conventions have lead to the emergence of a new sports game genre: the televisual sports videogames. These games, which usually simulate major professional or college sports, look and sound like television, and they use televised sports as a reference point for players. This thesis takes a critical look at how these televisual sports videogames are situated in the broader sports media industrial complex of North America, while also considering how the televisual design of these games is meaningful for fans of sports. Specifically, the text looks at how sports videogames reflect or reinforce dominant ideologies of hegemonic sports culture. Building on critical theories in sports studies, and through critical close readings of videogame texts, this thesis explores the relationship between sports television production, and sports videogames, with a focus on features that are found in both. Features such as introductory sequences, audio commentary, in-game advertising, news tickers, and instant replay are all commonly found in both sports television and sports videogames.
by Abraham D. Stein.
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Coll, Camenforte Sergi 1991. "Studies on glucocorticoids in sports drug testing." Doctoral thesis, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/668183.
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Due to health risks associated to the use of glucocorticoids (GC) and their potential ergogenic effects, systemic GCs are prohibited in sports competitions. However, local GC administrations are allowed for therapeutic purposes. The general reporting level used nowadays to discriminate between prohibited and allowed administrations is not adequate for all GCs.
To improve the discrimination, the excretion profiles of different GCs (triamcinolone hexacetonide, triamcinolone acetonide, budesonide and betamethasone) were evaluated after prohibited and allowed administrations, and specific discrimination criteria were proposed for each GC. The urinary elimination times of systemic GCs were also evaluated. Moreover, local intra-articular administration of GCs was demonstrated to produce systemic effect.
Finally, the impact of GCs on the steroid profile was evaluated. Due to the inhibition of the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis, the excretion rates of steroid profile metabolites decreased after systemic GC use. Nonetheless, the ratios between metabolites were not affected. Thus, GC administration does not affect the steroid profile.Degut a que els glucocorticoides (GCs) presenten riscos per a la salut i poden tenir efectes que milloren el rendiment esportiu, el seu ús per vies sistèmiques esta prohibit en competicions esportives. No obstant, l’administració de GCs per vies locals esta permès per raons terapèutiques. Avui en dia s’utilitza un criteri general per discriminar administracions prohibides i permeses, el qual no és adequat per tots els GCs. Per millorar la discriminació, els perfils d’excreció de diferents GCs (triamcinolona hexacetònid, triamcinolona acetònid, budesonida and betametasona) han sigut avaluats després d’administracions prohibides i permeses. Criteris de discriminació específics han sigut proposats per cada compost. Els temps d’eliminació en orina dels GCs han sigut avaluats després d’administracions sistèmiques. A més a més, s’ha demostrat que l’administració local intraarticular de GCs produeix efecte sistèmic. Finalment, s’ha avaluat l’impacte dels GCs en el perfil esteroïdal. Degut a la inhibició de l’eix hipotalàmic-pituïtari-adrenal, l’excreció dels metabòlits del perfil esteroïdal va disminuir després de l’administració sistèmica de GCs. No obstant, les ratios entre els metabòlits no es van veure afectades. Per tant, l’administració de GCs no afecta el perfil esteroïdal.
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Reffue, John D. "A rhetoric of sports talk radio." [Tampa, Fla] : University of South Florida, 2005. http://purl.fcla.edu/usf/dc/et/SFE0001462.
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Willmott, Thomas Oliver. "Action sports in transition : optimizing performance." Thesis, University of Central Lancashire, 2017. http://clok.uclan.ac.uk/22008/.
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Within the past two decades, the snowboard and freeski disciplines of halfpipe, slopestyle and big air (collectively Park & Pipe) have progressed dramatically in objective performance levels while transitioning into Olympic sports. This thesis investigates the nature and impact of this transition, with a focus on athlete performance and coaching. A general overview of the sport from a biopsychosocial perspective is followed by a more specific investigation into skill acquisition and the role of the coach in Park and Pipe as an action sport. A retrospective analysis of trick progression amongst eight elite performers at the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics is complemented by interviews with ten current elite Park and Pipe coaches and an athlete survey to achieve triangulated perspectives exploring approaches to training and associated coaching methods. The inherent risk of injury in action sports is considered throughout, along with approaches to managing this risk at an athlete, coach and systemic level. A suite of both formal and informal tools is presented including the application and use of professional judgment and decision making (PJDM, Collins & Collins, 2014). This thesis provides insight for the action sports athlete, coach, high performance support team and management, exploring theory and application, examining change, success, failure, and providing a number of solutions to the optimal performance challenge. By establishing what current Park and Pipe best coaching practice looks like and comparing this to athlete preference, this research provides a picture of where the sport is currently at, proposes direction for the future, and highlights potential transfer to other action sports. Specific areas of focus and contribution to existing knowledge include sport progression modelling, holistic long-term athlete development, the use of motor imagery in skill acquisition, risk management, decision-making, and the periodisation of risk.
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Fu, Yu. "Tapping the Potential of Sports: Incentives in China’s Reformation of the Sports Industry." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2017. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/cmc_theses/1609.
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Since the 2010s, China’s sports industry has undergone comprehensive reforms. This paper attempts to understand this change of direction from the central state’s perspective. By examining the dynamics of the basketball and soccer markets, it discovers that while the deregulation of basketball is a result of persistent bottom-up effort from the private sector, the recentralization of soccer is a state-led policy change. Notwithstanding the different nature and routes between these reforms, in both sectors, the state’s aim is to restore and strengthen its legitimacy within the society. Amidst China’s economic stagnation, the regime hopes to identify sectors that can drive sustainable growth, and to make adjustments to its bureaucracy as a way to respond to the society’s mounting demand for political modernization.
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Rufer, Lisa S. "Loyalty Program Effectiveness: An Examination of Mainstream and Niche Sport Fan-Team Relationships." VCU Scholars Compass, 2018. https://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/5322.
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The purpose of this study was to explore the efficacy of using loyalty programs on sport fans’ relationship quality and fan engagement toward sport organizations. This study also sought to explore which relationship quality and fan engagement factors potentially differed as a result of using loyalty programs. Since there are two major defined sport levels, differences were explored across niche and mainstream sport organizations. Using relationship marketing as the theoretical framework, participants (n = 678) were administered a 55-item instrument that included revised relationship quality and fan engagement scales. Quantitative data were used to run confirmatory factor analyses, analyses of covariance, and multivariate analyses of covariance.
Results first showed that significant differences existed between mainstream sport fans that have access to a loyalty program and mainstream sport fans that do not have access to a loyalty program. Mainstream sport fans that have access to a loyalty program had higher identification and reciprocity. Mainstream sport fans that do not have access to a loyalty program were found to have higher overall fan engagement, commitment, intimacy, and performance tolerance. Results also showed differences between niche sport fans that have access to a loyalty program and mainstream sport fans that have access to a loyalty program. Mainstream sport fans that have access to a loyalty program were divided into two groups (simple or complex) based on the design of the loyalty programs. Niche sport fans that have access to a loyalty program were found to have higher overall relationship quality, trust, intimacy, management cooperation, and performance tolerance.
The findings provide an introduction in to the possibility that loyalty programs could be effective for increasing relationship quality for both niche and mainstream sport organizations. Moreover, for niche sport organizations that have access to fewer resources, it is encouraging that the use of a loyalty program appears to have the capabilities to build stronger relationships and engagement. These results provide several implications for sport organizations and sport marketers and serve as a foundation for which future research on loyalty programs can build.
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Mason, Frederick Daniel. ""Women play sports (just not as well)": Canadian newspapers' coverage of men's and women's sports at the 1999 Pan-American Games." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2000. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp01/MQ57139.pdf.
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Cobb, Bryan Richard. "Laboratory and Field Studies in Sports-Related Brain Injury." Diss., Virginia Tech, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/73208.
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The studies presented in this dissertation investigated biomechanical factors associated with sports-related brain injuries on the field and in the laboratory. In the first study, head impact exposure in youth football was observed using a helmet mounted accelerometer system to measure head kinematics. The results suggest that restriction on contact in practice at the youth level can translate into reduced head impact exposure over the course of a season. A second study investigated the effect of measurement error in the head impact kinematic data collected by the helmet mounted system have on subsequent analyses. The objective of this study was to characterize the propagation of random measurement error through data analyses by quantifying descriptive statistic uncertainties and biases for biomechanical datasets with random measurement error. For distribution analyses, uncertainties tend to decrease as sample sizes grow such that for a typical player, the uncertainties would be around 5% for peak linear acceleration and 10% for peak angular (rotational) acceleration. The third and fourth studies looked at comparisons between two headforms commonly used in athletic helmet testing, the Hybrid III and NOCSAE headforms. One study compared the headform shape, particularly looking at regions that are likely to affect helmet fit. Major differences were found at the nape of the neck and in the check/jaw regions that may contribute to difficulty with fitting a helmet to the Hybrid III headform. For the final study, the impact responses of the two headforms were compared. Both headforms were mounted on a Hybrid III neck and impacted at various magnitudes and locations that are representative of impacts observed on the football field. Some condition-specific differences in kinematic parameters were found between the two headforms though they tended to be small. Both headforms showed reasonable repeatability.Ph. D.
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Poliakoff, Michael B. "Studies in the terminology of the Greek combat sports /." Frankfurt am Main : A. Hain, 1986. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb37439107h.
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Amo, Alexia. "DETERMINING OPTIMAL RESISTANCE LOADS DURING EXERCISE IN MALE AND FEMALE COLLEGE STUDENTS." Scholarly Commons, 2021. https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/uop_etds/3734.
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Exercise is a crucial component in obtaining proper health and fitness objectives in young adulthood. Determination of an optimal resistance load for men and women may aid in physiological function and reduce the likelihood of injury. We tested 32 physically active men (n=14) and women (n=18) between ages 18-25 on Proteus Motion, USA. Proteus applies continuous three-dimensional magnetic resistance loads during exercise. Testing consisted of 2 repetitions of horizontal and vertical push and pull exercises comparing performance of the dominant and non-dominant arm. Each exercise was performed with a resistance of 7lb, 14lb, 21lb, and 28lb for a total of 32 repetitions. Proteus software calculates power, explosiveness, consistency, range of motion, and braking. Analysis of variance (ANOVA) with repeated measures tested differences in results at each resistance load. Power produced between sexes was similar in press motions but differed in pulls.
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Scanlan, Mark. "An investigation into the creation of goal scoring opportunities in Women’s International Football; And a comparison to Men’s International Football." Thesis, Edith Cowan University, Research Online, Perth, Western Australia, 2018. https://ro.ecu.edu.au/theses/2112.
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Football is the most popular sport in the world, played in over two hundred countries and it is governed by the Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA), who host a World Cup every four year for both men and women. Women’s football is growing in terms of popularity, with this growth in popularity, research into the women’s game has begun to emerge. However, to date there is very little published research in women’s football that describes effective attacking strategies and the creation of goal scoring opportunities (GSO). Video of each match (52) from the Women’s World Cup (Canada 2015) was analysed to assess the factors related to the creation of GSO that lead to success at the World Cup. The results revealed that the middle third of the pitch was the most effective area for gaining possession and creating GSO at Canada 2015 and that the time taken to create a GSO at Canada 2015 was just under twelve seconds. Furthermore, analysis was undertaken of the (24) matches of the Top 4 performing teams at the Men’s World Cup (Brazil 2014) so that the GSO of the Top 4 Men’s teams could be compared to the Top 4 Women’s teams. The results reveal a number of similarities and differences between men and women when it comes to the creation of GSO at international football tournaments. The findings of the study can be used to influence players and coaches to design training sessions and interventions to successfully create GSO in women’s football. The data from the research may influence the tactical and technical set up of women’s international football teams and help to evolve the game in the same way that research into the men’s game has.
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Chin, Daniel Mark. "Essays in Sports Economics." Scholar Commons, 2012. http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/4008.
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The study of economics is based on key concepts such as incentives, efficiency, marginality and tradeoffs. Economic research has hypothesized and tested for how economic agents behave after taking each of these into account. In order for agents to meet their objectives it is sometimes the case that they intentionally keep their behaviors out of sight. However, economic theory can be used to search for patterns of observed behaviors from which the unobserved behaviors can be inferred. This dissertation performs this kind of analysis by observing the behavior of sports participants.
Chapter 1 is an application of Becker's (1968) economic model of crime by using an econometric model to search for the presence of National Basketball Association (NBA) referees who bet on NBA games. The placement of these bets is not observed since a referee who bets on a game does so illegally and therefore hides his betting activity to prevent detection. A referee who places a bet on a game he also officiates has an incentive to manipulate to improve his chances of winning the bet. At the same time he should also be mindful to manipulate in a way that lowers his chances of being detected. The referee's observed behaviors through detailed play-by-play data are used to look for patterns hypothesized to be consistent with manipulation. The results suggest that former NBA referee Tim Donaghy, who was found to have bet on NBA games, did behave in ways consistent with manipulation. One other referee also appears to engage in the same type of behavior but stops once Donaghy is detected.
Chapter 2 is an application of Fama's (1970) Efficient Market Hypothesis (EMH). Typically, the EMH is tested in the financial markets but some research tests for it in the sports betting markets so that the question becomes whether or not the betting market odds fully reflect all of the available relevant information. This chapter tests to see how completely National Football League (NFL) bettors use information called the circadian advantage. This occurs when a game is played in the evening, Eastern Time, between teams that are based on opposite coasts and always favors the better rested West Coast team. A regression model designed to test for market efficiency finds that the advantage is not fully reflected in the odds so that bets on the West Coast team are underpriced. In a majority of games that involve a circadian advantage most of the money is wagered on the overpriced East Coast team. A conclusion that ties these results together is that the bookmakers restrict the amount bet from informed bettors who tend to win their bets and who are aware of the circadian advantage, and adjust the odds just enough to bait uninformed bettors who are unaware of the circadian advantage into placing wagers on the team that is overpriced. Given these dynamics, it is the bookmakers who profit from the information contained in the circadian advantage.
Chapter 3 revisits the NFL betting market but instead estimates the extent to which bettors place wagers based on sentiment for a team that is unrelated to relevant measures of relative performance along the lines of speculative investment outlined by Graham and Dodd in 1934 (2009). The results show that more bets tend to be placed on teams for which bettors have high sentiment and fewer bets are placed on teams for which bettors have low sentiment. However, the market odds appear to be using sentiment unbiasedly, leading to the conclusion that contrarian bettors place wagers opposite the sentimental bettors. While the market as a whole is efficient in the use of sentiment, losers tend to be bettors who wager with sentiment and winners tend to be bettors who wager against sentiment.
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Hui, Tsz-chung Joseph, and 許子聰. "Urban [Sport]-scape: park and sports complex at North Point." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2002. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B3198647X.
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Gunn, Anthony C. "This Is SportsCenter: Performance and Performativity in Sports Broadcasting and Punditry." Diss., CLICK HERE for online access, 2010. http://contentdm.lib.byu.edu/ETD/image/etd3421.pdf.
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Gullikson, Joey. "Strong Side, Weak Side: Goal Generating Tactics in NCAA Men's Water Polo." Scholarly Commons, 2019. https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/uop_etds/3618.
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In the game of water polo, it is generally accepted that the shooting position of the offensive player and the tactic employed are both important in generating goals. Despite their importance, little is known about the relationship between shooting position and offensive tactics and their impact on the probability of goal scoring. In this research, a sequence of hierarchical mixed logistic regression models is applied to a unique data set from 2016 and 2017 NCAA men’s water polo seasons to analyze the relationship between goal generating tactics and different shooting positions. The primary result reveals that the closer a player is the “midline” of the pool and the closer a player is to the goal, the higher the percentage of scoring by offensive tactic. Furthermore, statistically significant relationships reveal (i) direct shots are better than perimeter shots, (ii) left-handed shooters are more efficient at scoring goals that right-handed shooters, and (iii) counterattack opportunities are better than power plays (player advantage). Understanding the best goal-scoring positions in the pool for each offensive tactic will assist coaches and players in devising more successful offensive and defensive strategies.
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Flanders, Sean. "Exploring the Relationships Between Collegiate Sport Coaches’ Creative Productivity and Factors of Creative Potential." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2020. https://dc.etsu.edu/etd/3740.
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Sport coaches are perceived as problem solvers who engage in creativity to handle the spontaneity of competitive activity and generate winning results. However, while creativity in athletes has been researched, little has been investigated regarding coaches. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to examine different aspects of creativity – person, process, press, and product – among collegiate team sport coaches in the United States. Specifically, how personality traits, ideational fluency, remote association ability, years of coaching experience, and work climate related to creative product impact and frequency. A modified creativity personality test was found to be positively related to both the impact and frequency of creative products. Further, self-confidence and years of coaching experience were positively related to creative product impact, while inventiveness was positively related to creative product frequency. Analyzing the creative potential factors related to creative productivity may be useful in enhancing creativity for collegiate coaches and improving outcomes.
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Bazyler, Caleb D. "Case Studies: Insights for Long-Term Athlete Monitoring." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2016. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/3846.
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Gieseler, Carly Michelle. "Performances of Gender and Sexuality in Extreme Sports Culture." Scholar Commons, 2012. http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/4049.
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The purpose of this study is to expose the strategies through which extreme sports constitute gender through exaggeration, parody, queering, resistance, and transcendence of normative gendered binaries. I interrogate how extreme sports operate on the margins of sport, gender, media, and lived experience to better understand the processes and performances that retain, reinforce, and resist our notions of normative gender, bodies, and sexuality. Starting with the claim that performance is constitutive of gender and culture, I will focus on how extreme sporting performances create significant commentaries on mainstream assumptions surrounding sporting gender, sexuality, and corporeality.
These commentaries function in extreme sports' spaces: to critique how extreme sports reclaim oppressive language of gendered binaries; to give voice to sexual silences in performances that lampoon, retrofit, and transcend those assumptions; and, for athletes to reclaim corporeality through strategies of parody, resistance, and elision. Taking up the transcendent possibilities for gender, body, and sexuality in extreme sports, I suggest that these are also places to reimagine a phallocentric combat myth, revisit issues of class and performance, and speak of the invisibility of racial difference.
Using critical analysis, interviews, and personal narrative, I explore performances of gender, sexuality, and the body in mediated and live extreme events beginning with the revival of the roller derby phenomenon exemplified in the 2007 documentary Hell on Wheels, the 2006 A&E series Rollergirls, and the multiple websites, leagues, and fictional representations such as 2009's Whip It. I then turn to MTV's pranktainment playground of Jackass, Viva la Bam and Nitro Circus as well as the traveling motocross spectacle Nuclear Cowboyz. Finally, I attend to the extreme bodies of ultradistance running through multiple texts and conversations with runners as well as my own participation in the 2011 Keys100 in the Florida Keys.
My study will not repeat the many questions, critiques, or concerns of foundational or traditional scholarship on sports, media, or risk. Instead, I focus on several key issues across the chapters: how sport is housed as always already a masculine realm, how mainstream and extreme sports do gender corporeally, and the ways extreme sports challenge our mainstream notions of sexualities.
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Ratcliffe, T. C. "The management of coastal water sports in South Wales." Thesis, Cardiff University, 1989. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.278800.
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McLeod, Geordie. "Injury surveillance in community cricket and the exploration of insurance claims systems." Thesis, Edith Cowan University, Research Online, Perth, Western Australia, 2020. https://ro.ecu.edu.au/theses/2390.
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The aims of this industry funded PhD thesis were 1) To understand the injury causes, trends and burden in community cricket and 2) To examine the Cricket Australia National Club Risk Protection Program (NCRPP) insurance scheme for suitability as an injury surveillance tool for community cricket.
This thesis sought to identify and understand the injury profile of community cricketers through existing literature and injury datasets, being, Victorian Injury Surveillance Unit (VISU) hospital data, Accident Compensation Corporation (ACC) and NCRPP insurance claims data. This thesis also undertook a novel assessment of data validity and completeness from various sources, against industry standards of the Australian Sports Injury Data Dictionary (ASIDD) and cricket injury consensus statements (consensus).
Existing literature using insurance claims data to report sports injury indicated high levels of validity and completeness were possible. Review across all sources of published, community- level, cricket-related injury data revealed acute medically-treated injuries were most commonly fractures, dislocations, sprains and strains. The most common body regions requiring hospital attendance were the wrist/hand and head. The majority of hospital-treated injuries were due to being struck by the ball. The majority of prospectively collected injury data involved junior and/or adolescent players and most often involved bowling cohorts, although fielding was the most commonly reported activity of injury onset. The majority of studies had an unclear likelihood of bias. Reporting completeness was moderate when compared to the ASIDD core items and consensus, with injury mechanism an area requiring improvement.
The ACC provided data, on all cricket-related injury claims, showed high validity with the core items of the ASIDD and the cricket injury consensus statements. The ACC data showed soft tissue injuries were the most common injury nature with bowling the most common activity at injury onset. Lower back and shoulder sprains/strains were the most commonly injured body regions. Four-percent of claims involved lost work time. The NCRPP, collecting specifically organised cricket-related injury not covered by a universal healthcare system, showed fractures to the hands/fingers/thumb and knee sprains were the most common injuries. Fielding was the most common activity at injury onset. Twenty-five percent of claims received loss of income (LOI) payments with knee injuries representing the highest injury burden (weeks LOI/year).
The NCRPP system showed a high level of validity in injury data collection measured against the ASIDD and consensus. The NCRPP data showed a high level of completeness compared to the core items of the ASIDD and a moderate level in comparison with the consensus. The NCRPP system was judged to be useful as a potential injury surveillance system against the Centre for Disease Control (CDC) guidelines. Recommendations for improvements to the system include: 1) Addition of medical diagnosis/history; 2) Inclusion of injury side; 3) Inclusion of new/recurrent injury; 4) Allowance for multiple injuries being recorded separately; 5) Rationalisation of the injury nature terms (e.g. tear/rupture); 6) Reintroduction of injury mechanisms; 7) Addition of protective equipment usage; 8) Introduction of fielding positions; 9) Adopting required input fields in online forms to better capture injury data.
Additional research is required to help validate the representativeness of the NCRPP injury data. Future research into community-level cricket injury would also be better served with a community-level injury surveillance consensus statement.
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Stark, Richard A. "The effects of the ASO ankle brace and ankle taping on speed and agility in female softball athletes and male baseball athletes." Scholarly Commons, 1997. https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/uop_etds/2302.
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The purpose of this study was to compare the effects of prophylactic ankle bracing and the effects of prophylactic ankle taping on athletes' speed and agility. Thirty-one subjects, twenty-one male professional baseball players and ten female collegiate softball players with no history of an ankle injury the previous six months, participated in three performance tests while wearing the ASO ankle brace, a modified Gimby ankle taping, and unsupported. The subjects completed the flying forty yard dash for speed, the SEMO test for general agility, and the Edgren test for specific lateral agility. Multiple trials were administrated to account for learning effects. The resultant data were analyzed with a multivariate repeated-measures design. The data were tested for order effects; no significant differences were found. The data were then tested for multicollinarity by use of an intercorrelation matrix across the three dependent (compacted) variables. A 2 x 3 multivariate analysis of variance (MANOVA) was used to analyze gender and support conditions (with repeated measures) effects across the dependent variables; and significant differences were followed up with univariate analyses of variance (ANOVAs). Effects for interactions of gender x support condition were evaluated by Wilkes' A. There were no statistically significant interactions found. In univariate ANOVAs for post hoc testing significant differences were found for gender effect on speed (forty yd. dash), general agility(SEMO test), and specific lateral agility (Edgren test). ) A significant difference was found in the follow up univariate analysis across support conditions for general agility (SEMO test) wherein the unsupported condition was significantly faster (less time) than the braced or taped conditions.
On the basis of the findings, it was concluded that the subjects' speed in the forty yard dash was not significantly reduced by bracing or taping. It was concluded that the subjects' agility was significantly slowed by both prophylactic bracing and taping as demonstrated by performance in the SEMO general agility test. It was concluded that males and females are not differentially affected by bracing and I or taping. There was no significant statistical difference found between the ASO Ankle brace and the taped ankle in speed and agility tests. It can be concluded that budgetary considerations and personnel time maybe the critical factors when selecting certain ankle braces over ankle taping.
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Hall, Tammy Kay. "Determinants of elite athletes' commitment to sport : examination of the sport commitment model in the professional sport domain." PDXScholar, 1993. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/3551.
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This study examined the applicability of the Sport Commitment Model for a group of elite, professional athletes. The model proposes that an athlete's commitment will increase as sport enjoyment, personal investments, social constraints, and involvement opportunities increase and will decrease with an increase in involvement opportunities. The influence of identification as an athlete, a determinant of commitment not included in the original model, was also examined. One hundred and eighty three professional football players from the Canadian Football League (CFL) (n = 121) and National Football League (NFL) (n = 69) participated in the study. Each subject completed a modified version of the original questionnaire developed to test the constructs in the Sport Commitment Model (Scanlan, Simons, Carpenter, Schmidt, & Keeler, 1993) during a team meeting. Internal consistency reliabilities for the final items in all seven scales were acceptable. Confirmatory factor analysis indicated marginal overall fit (AGFI = 0.757) demonstrating good construct validity and discriminant validity for each scale. Zero-order correlations between commitment and its predictor constructs were significant and in the hypothesized direction for all predictor constructs except social constraints. The correlation between commitment and social constraints was negative and nonsignificant. The simultaneous regression analysis results found the predictor constructs accounted for 38% of the variance in commitment. Identification uniquely accounted for the most variance followed by enjoyment, involvement alternatives, and involvement opportunities. Only personal investments and social constraints did not contribute a significant amount of unique variance to sport commitment. The importance and meaning of the relationships between commitment and its determinants for professional athletes are discussed, as well as directions for future research.
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Young, Shawna Hodges. "Women's collegiate wrestling : three case studies /." ProQuest subscription required:, 2001. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=990270571&sid=4&Fmt=2&clientId=8813&RQT=309&VName=PQD.
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King, Alexis Christine. "Examining the relationship between exercise induced fatigue and postural stability among geriatric patients with vestibular disorders." Scholarly Commons, 2017. https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/uop_etds/2977.
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Purpose: This study examined: (1) the relationship between exercise induced fatigue and postural balance amongst geriatric patients with vestibular disorders. (2) Assessed the duration for postural stability to return to baseline measurements upon induced fatigue.
Methods: A controlled pre-post test experimental design method was used during this study. This study incorporated a quantitative analysis to explore the relationship between exercise induced fatigue and postural balance with a sample of 24 subjects. The subjects were randomly assigned to either an experimental or control group. Baseline postural stability measurements were conducted prior to all subject testing and were accounted for again once testing was completed in order to assess the duration for postural stability to return to baseline measurements. All subject testing was conducted using a treadmill and a CYBEX CSMi balance board.
Results: The results indicated that age can predict baseline balance score, baseline balance percent, maximum heart rate achieved, immediate posttest balance score, terminal posttest balance score, and terminal posttest balance percent. BMI, obesity, gender, were found to be significant among control and experimental groups when holding baseline balance percent and baseline balance scores constant.
Conclusion: It is important for geriatrics who possess a vestibular disorder maintain a healthy and active lifestyle so that they can reduce the risk of falling by lowering their BMI and lowering their chances of obesity. BMI and obesity were found to be positively correlated with an increased risk of falling.
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Carr, Richard E. Jr. "Current trends in risk management strategies of recreational sport club programs." Scholarly Commons, 1994. https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/uop_etds/2262.
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This study determines whether the institutional size has any relationship to institutional concerns for risk management and if institutional size is related to the effectiveness of sound risk management guidelines within collegiate sport club programs. A risk management self assessment instrument consisting of twenty-five sound risk management guidelines and a ranking of the five most important and most difficult to implement was developed. Using the risk management self-assessment instrument, this nation-wide study asked collegiate sport club administrators to assess the extent to which their programs effectively adhere to sound risk management guidelines and to determine what they deem to be the most important and the most difficult risk management concerns to implement. Between institutional population sizes of 0-3000, 3001-10000, 10001- 20000, and 20001-60500, no significant differences were detected in regards to overall effectiveness of risk management guidelines. Six of twenty-five individual statements had significant differences between institutional sizes. These statements' concerns were in regards to equipment, physical examinations, waivers, travel itineraries, site communication accessibility, and manuals. Analysis of the ranking of most important and most difficult concerns to implement indicated there was no significant differences between the institutional sizes in regards to risk management concerns for sport club programs. The most important concerns were: 1) Waivers, 2) Litigation prevention, 3) Facility inspection, 4) Travel-drivers, and 5) Manuals. The most difficult to implement concerns were: 1) Physical examinations, 2) First aid at competitions, 3) Coaching standards, 4) Equipment inspections, and 5) Travel-drivers. With no significant differences between institutional size groupings in either effectiveness or types of concerns, a standard of care regarding risk management appears to be in place across the country.
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Strednak, Singer Scott Donald. "The Word was made flesh: The male body in sports evangelism." Diss., Temple University Libraries, 2016. http://cdm16002.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p245801coll10/id/420132.
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This dissertation explores the functions of athletic male bodies within sports evangelism. I argue that the production of the male body within sports evangelism – both physical and symbolic - plays an integral part in the mission of Christian athletes by using the body as a medium for conveying religious messages about masculinity to young men. I focus upon sports evangelism as both entertainment spectacle and as a performance of masculinity, the commercialization of evangelism in the contemporary United States, legitimated violence as religious expression, and the paradoxical relationship between bodily improvement and bodily harm within sports. I begin with a review of the sports and religion literature, identifying common themes and shortcomings, with particular regard to how Christian athletes supplement their oral ministrations with physical action. Following this, I offer a very broad survey the role of sports as socializing institutions within Western Christian history, culminating in the 20th century transition from an athletic culture driven primarily by participation to one primarily driven by consumption and spectatorship. The remaining chapters are case studies of how sports ministries and evangelical athletes have championed particular political positions from the 1980s to the present. I conclude by discussing the limits of these performances of masculinity, highlighting how masculinist fantasies of power and Christian identity in sports evangelism support conservative Christian political practices and ideologies, inscribed on the bodies of participants.
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Sheffield, Matthew A. "College Basketball in Kentucky, Religion, and Distinguishing Between the Two: Concerns and Cautions for the Conversation on the Religiosity of Sports." TopSCHOLAR®, 2015. http://digitalcommons.wku.edu/theses/1463.
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Academic analysis of sport and religion is still in an early and formative phase. Only in the past fifty years has the conversation of sport and religion substantially been revealed as subject matter for serious academic work. This thesis includes literature from various scholars interested in religion and sport, contemplation on the religious nature of college basketball in the state of Kentucky, and challenges for leading scholars arguing over the notion of sport as a form of religion. The first half of the thesis presents the narrative of the increasingly growing academic debate over considering sport a religious phenomenon. The latter half includes analysis of college basketball in Kentucky and my conclusions concerning the viability of the notion of a religion of sport. All the text is chiefly inspired by—and constructed in relation to—the approach of scholars reviewed earlier in the thesis. This text provides readers with a sense of various arguments on both sides of the discussion of the religion of sport. Secondly, the work encourages consideration of new alternative approaches to discussing sport and religion. This work is intended to provide a challenge to the rigid nature of previous scholarship on this subject. Demonstrating the relative utility of college basketball in Kentucky, through revealing its usefulness to both groups of scholars divided on this question of the religion of sport, proves to be instrumental in exemplifying the complexities within this scholarly debate. This case study also proves to be crucial for legitimizing the suggestions for alternative approaches to sport and religion that are raised within this text. Elsewhere, by emphasizing the significance of definitions of religion, evaluating the utility of the comparability of any observable phenomenon, and emphasizing the diversity among approaches to sport and religion, this text encourages the development of new approaches to research, increased self-criticism, and willingness to extend charity among scholars interested in debating sport as a religious phenomenon.
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Lehman, Stephanie Jacobs. "Adolescent women's sports involvement and sexual behavior/health: A process-level investigation." Diss., The University of Arizona, 2001. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/280253.
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This multi-method study explored the link between sports involvement during the high school years and sexual behavior/health among 176 adolescent women. The current study employed quantitative methodology to replicate the documented connections between sports involvement and adolescent women's sexual behavior and sexual/reproductive health, but used more sensitive and appropriate measures. Additionally, in part directed by cultural resource theory, the present study helped to fill a gap in the literature by exploring three potential explanatory mechanisms (i.e., mediators) in the above connections. Those mechanisms included: (a) functional body orientation; (b) self-empowerment/efficacy; and (c) sexual/reproductive health-related information/motivation via coach. Results from the quantitative data suggested that adolescent women's involvement in organized team sports was favorably associated with each of the following: (a) sexual risk-taking behavior, (b) sexual/reproductive health-seeking behavior, and (c) sexual/reproductive health. In addition, both adolescent women's functional body orientation and adolescent women's self-empowerment/efficacy emerged as mediators in the associations between adolescent women's sports involvement and adolescent women's sexual behavior/health. Thus, the current study suggests the potential for sports involvement to favorably influence adolescent women's sexual behavior/health and pinpoints key mechanisms that help to clarify the nature of that influence. The current study used qualitative methodology to explore the ways in which the adolescent women felt that their sports involvement influenced their lives and feelings about their bodies. In general, the sports involvement-derived outcomes that emerged from the adolescent women's written comments were positive, suggesting that the adolescent women felt that their sports involvement during their high school years was overwhelmingly beneficial. Potential implications of those outcomes for the sexual/reproductive health of adolescent women are discussed. Qualitative methodology also was used in the current study to explore adolescent women's experience of sexual/reproductive health-related coach talk. Based on the adolescent women's reports of their experiences of such coach talk, it appears that coaches might be one logical and effective avenue by which key sexual/reproductive health messages can be transmitted to adolescent female athletes. Implications for the development of sports and community programs focused on the prevention of teenage pregnancy and STDs are discussed.
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Greene, Amanda E. "Utilization of a Professional Sport Venue to Create Positive Change Within a Community." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2014. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/4955.
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Long, Charles Alexander. "Cross-cultural communication of the gospel through sports (specifically soccer)." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1985. http://www.tren.com.
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Sheppard, Jeremy Matthew. "The competitive, physiological and trainable aspects of vertical jump performance : a series of studies on the strength and conditioning of elite volleyball players." Thesis, Edith Cowan University, Research Online, Perth, Western Australia, 2009. https://ro.ecu.edu.au/theses/1905.
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This is a thesis 'by publication' that comprises 11 manuscripts (Chapters 2- 12) that have passed the peer-reviewed process and have been accepted for publication. The 11 manuscripts have been published or are in press in 4 different journals, and are in general presented in this thesis in the format of the particular journal, with the exception of referencing, which has been formatted to a uniform style. Of the 11 manuscripts, 7 are full papers, and 4 are case-studies/brief research notes. The references relevant to this thesis are outlined below.
Manuscripts:
Sheppard, J.M., J. Cronin, T. J. Gabbett, M. R. McGuigan, N. Extebarria, and R. U. Newton. Relative importance of strength and power qualities to jump performance in elite male volleyball players. Journal of Strength and Conditioning Research. 22:758-765, 2007.
Sheppard, J. M., T. J. Gabbett, K. L. Taylor, J. Dorman, A. J. Lebedew, and B. R. Development of a repeated-effort test for elite men's volleyball. International Journal of Sports Physiology and Performance. 2:292-304, 2007.
Sheppard, J. M., M. McGuigan, and R. U. Newton. The effect of accentuated eccentric load on vertical jump kinetics kinematics in elite male athletes. International Journal of Sports Science and Coaching. 2:267-273, 2007.
Sheppard, J. M., S. Cormack, K. L. Taylor, M. R. McGuigan, and R. U. Newton. Assessing the force-velocity characteristics of well trained athletes: the incremental load power profile. Journal of Strength and Conditioning Research. 22: 1320-1326, 2008.
Sheppard, J. M. and T. L. Doyle. Increasing compliance to instructions in the squat jump. Journal of Strength and Conditioning Research. 22:648-651, 2008.
Sheppard, J. M. and R. Borgeaud. Influence of stature on movement speed and repeated efforts in elite volleyball players. Jo11111al of Australian Strength and Conditioning. 16:12- 14, 2008.
Sheppard, J. M., T. L. Doyle, and K. L. Taylor. A methodological and performance comparison of Smith-machine and free weight jump squats. Jou111al of Australian Strength and Conditioning. 16:5-9, 2008.
Sheppard, J. M., T. Gabbett, and R. Borgeaud. Training repeated effort ability in national team male volleyball players. lnternational Journal of Sports Physiology and Performance. 3:397-400, 2008.
Sheppard, J. M., S. Hobson, D. Chapman, K. L. Taylor, M. McGuigan, and R. U. Newtqn. The effect of training with accentuated eccentric load counter-movement jumps on strength and power characteristics of high-performance volleyball players. International Journal of Sports Science and Coaching. 3:355-363, 2008.
Sheppard, J. M., D. Chapman, C. Gough, M. R. McGuigan, and R. U. Newton. Twelve month training induced changes in elite international volleyball players. Journal of Strength and Conditioning Research, In press.
Sheppard, J. M., M. R. McGuigan, and R. U. Newton. The effects of depth-jumping on vertical jump performance of elite volleyball players: an examination of the transfer of increased stretch-load tolerance to spike jump performance. Journal of Australian Strength and Conditioning, In Press.
Conference Presentations & Posters
Sheppard, J.M., J. Cronin, N. Extebarria, T. Gabbett, M. McGuigan, and R. U. Newton. The relative importance of strength and power for vertical jumping in elite male volleyball players. In National Strength and Conditioning Association Annual Conference. Atlanta, Georgia, 2007.
Sheppard, J. M., R. U. Newton, and M. McGuigan. The effects of accentuated eccentric load on kinetic and kinematic factors in vertical jump performance of elite male athletes. In 2nd Annual Sports Innovation Summit. Vancouver, Canada, 2007.
Sheppard, J. M. and T. Gabbett. The development and evaluation of a repeated effort test for volleyball. In National Strength and Conditioning Association Annual Conference. Atlanta, Georgia, 2007.
Sheppard, J. M., D. Chapman, C. Gough, M. McGuigan, and R. U. Newton. The association between changes in vertical jump and changes in strength and power qualities in elite volleyball players over 1 year. In National Strength and Conditioning Association Annual Conference. Las Vegas, Nevada, 2008.
Sheppard, J. M., M. McGuigan, and R. U. Newton. The effect of increased stretch load tolerance on vertical jump ability in elite male volleyball players. In National Strength and Conditioning Association Annual Conference. Las Vegas, Nevada, 2008.
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Hutchinson, Taurean D. "Determinants of Sports Performance: Case Studies on Olympics & Major League Soccer." OpenSIUC, 2017. https://opensiuc.lib.siu.edu/dissertations/1410.
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This dissertation proposal examines empirically the determinants of Olympic performance and the transition and persistence of Major League Soccer (MLS). The first chapter estimates the relationship between the performance by a country at the Olympics, measured by number of medals obtained, and a country's health indicators. We want to examine the relationship that improved sanitation access has on Olympic performance. The data sources are from the Olympic Committee, World Development Indicators and various sources. A panel tobit estimation will be used to examine this relationship. The second chapter deals with the determinants of Major League Soccer teams' performance. We want to examine and estimate variables that improve the performance of MLS teams. The data sources are taken from Major League Soccer teams main pages, Bureau of Economic Analyis, Bureau of Labor Statistics and the United States Census Bureau. We will use a Generalized Method of Moments (GMM) estimation and instrumental variable (IV) estimation which assists us in controlling for observed endogeneity. The third chapter examines the competitive transition and persistence associated with Major League Soccer. A proportional hazard model and a multinomial logit model is used in this estimation to examine the ability of teams to remain competitive, where we explore the factors that assists teams in remaining in specific states of competitiveness.
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Hong, Wee Pheng. "Physiological characteristics and time-motion analysis of young soccer players." Thesis, Edith Cowan University, Research Online, Perth, Western Australia, 2009. https://ro.ecu.edu.au/theses/1900.
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The majority of the literature on physiological testing and time-motion analysis (TMA) of soccer performance has been conducted on elite senior soccer players. Few TMA studies have focused on young soccer players and currently, there is nothing focusing on global positioning system (GPS) derived data in this cohort. This study aimed to assess in a group of youth soccer players, the reliability of the selected physiological variables, establish a physiological profile of essential performance characteristics, quantify match-related performance such as time motion characteristics, positional roles and physical demands, and examine the relationship between criterion measures acquired from physiological testing and GPS data during match-play. Thirty-four male outfield players (mean ± standard deviation; age 16.5 ± 1.1 years; height 175.2 ± 6.0 cm; weight 65.3 ± 7.2 kg) from three Premier Division 18s soccer teams in the Western Australia State League were recruited and split according to playing position; centre-backs (n=6), fullbacks (n=6), central midfielders (n=7), wide midfielders (n=8) and strikers (n=7). Test-retest reliability and the performance of physiological variables such as peak force, rate of force development (RFD), peak power, vertical jump (VJ) height, agility, aerobic endurance, sprint performance and repeated sprint ability (RSA) were established. The participants from each team were tracked by GPS (GPSports SPI Elite, ACT, Australia) over the entire playing time of four consecutive matches, and in total, GPS data was accumulated from twelve league games for TMA of soccer performance. All variables of the RFD, static jump (SJ), Soccer Specific Agility Test (SSAT), 20 m and 10 m sprint times, and percent sprint decrement of RSA (RSAdec), were associated with low intraclass correlation coefficient (ICC) values, suggesting poor test-retest reliability. No significant differences were revealed by one way repeated measures ANOVA for the mean performance of any of the physiological variables between playing positions with the exception of one criterion measure of the SSAT, while numerous significant main effects across positional groupings were found in the GPS data acquired during match-play (p < 0.05). Paired t tests identified a number of significant main effects among match-related performance between playing halves (p < 0.05). In addition, many large and moderate effect size (ES) values for performance measures between playing positions and halves were detected. Pearson product correlations were used to examine relationships with significant and strong inverse correlations evident between the variables of the 30 m sprint, RSA test and SSAT, and sprint performance during match-play (r = -0.506 to -0.644; p < 0.05). This study showed that the physiological profiles of essential performance characteristics for young soccer players were similar across playing positions. There were numerous significant main effects between playing positions and halves during match-play, and hence, position-specific testing and conditioning protocols may be efficacious in effectively preparing young soccer players for competition. More TMA studies of young soccer players using larger sample sizes are warranted to substantiate the findings of this study.
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Swart, Kamilla Rhodes Dent. "A curriculum design for sport tourism studies in South Africa." Normal, Ill. Illinois State University, 2001. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/ilstu/fullcit?p3064504.
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Thesis (Ed. D.)--Illinois State University, 2001.Title from title page screen, viewed March 14, 2006. Dissertation Committee: Dent M. Rhodes (chair), Adel Al-Bataineh, Ken F.Jerrich, Douglas M. Turco. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 146-154) and abstract. Also available in print.
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Nagy, Andrea. "Fandom: Four Case Studies on Stadium Design and Fan Behavior." Kent State University Honors College / OhioLINK, 2018. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ksuhonors1525750828081632.
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Zhong, Xi. "The gendered Tiyu discourse in modern China: a comparative reading of Chinese sports films." The Ohio State University, 2007. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1413476520.
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Reifsnyder, Laura Kathryn. "Jocks for Justice: How Sports Media Reflects and Propagates Societal Narratives." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2018. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/cmc_theses/1810.
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Sports presents one of the most popular forms of entertainment in society, and sports media continues to expand its billion-dollar influence through new television deal and broadcasting rights. But with a population of journalists who are overwhelmingly white, straight, and male, sports media is promoting the hegemony of said image by reproducing stereotypes in its broadcasts to audiences around the country. Mainstream media regurgitates these stereotypes in their coverage of minority athlete by portraying black players as unintelligent or “thug”-ish, women as “butch”, and gay athletes as effeminate. These representations allow for the perpetuation of the white, heterosexual male narrative throughout society while sidelining those who do not fit the description. But just as sports media is growing in popularity, so too is the athlete activist. Starting in 2013, today’s athletic superstars are now using their exalted platforms to address societal issues and speak on behalf of marginalized groups that are often ignored or misrepresented by traditional media narratives. The efforts of Colin Kaepernick, Billie Jean King, and Jason Collins in fighting against the system and these stereotypes will reveal how certain athletes are represented in the media and their unique position of changing the discussion and inspiring others to challenge societal norms. The growing popularity of social media and its use as a tool for social activism will also be examined, particularly as it has revolutionized the culture of athlete activism.
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Talbot, Shaun Marie. "Upright versus recumbent cycle ergometry using a modified Y-way protocol." Scholarly Commons, 1994. https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/uop_etds/2275.
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Because of its practicality, many exercise physiologists use the cycle ergometer to test cardiovascular endurance; yet due to physical injury or handicap, there is a great segment of our population that cannot easily manage an upright seated position. The recumbent position helps to stabilize the upper body, and therefore may help those whose repertoire of postural control is compromised. At present, the majority of studies dealing with upright and recumbent positions for graded exercise testing show the upright position to yield higher HR and VO2 readings. In order to determine the difference between the upright and recumbent cycle ergometer using the Y-Way Protocol, 41 healthy subjects (24 females, 17 males) performed GXT's in each position until HR reached 90% age-predicted max. Subjects were broken into two groups, with one group performing the recumbent test first and the other group performing the upright portion of testing first. Predicted . . and actual VO2 measurements were recorded for each subject, and maximum VO2 predicted. A 2x2x2 ANOVA was applied to the data to determine interaction and effects among position (upright vs. recumbent), protocol (YMCA and actual VO2), and gender. No differences in VO2 max between the upright and recumbent position were observed in either gender or protocol. It was determined that the recumbent position is a valid testing position in the estimation of VO2 max using workload adjustments determined by the Y -Way protocol.
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Stauble, Diane Franz. "Mental preparation strategies of team-sport athletes: A preliminary investigation." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 1986. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/384.
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Bjälevik, Jessica, and Maria Magnusson. "How to be successful in the sports agent business." Thesis, Mälardalen University, School of Sustainable Development of Society and Technology, 2009. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mdh:diva-5447.
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What is a sports agent and what does a sports agent do? This is described in the thesis, through an explanation of the different functions and characteristics. It is also discussed how to use these functions and characteristics in the best way so that the sports agent can reach success. The complex concept “success” is also discussed so that it is adapted to this thesis and the profession of sports agents. Furthermore, the thesis contains recommendations of how to be successful in the sports agent business.
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Uszynski, Edward T. "Implicit Religion and the Highly-Identified Sports Fan: An Ethnography of Cleveland Sports Fandom." Bowling Green State University / OhioLINK, 2013. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1363108895.
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Oluko, Olembo David. "Perception of sport appropriateness as a function of gender and culture." Thesis, McGill University, 1995. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=35215.
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According to Metheny (1965), people's impressions of the acceptability of sport for women varies across several factors, including culture and gender. In this study, 206 prospective physical education teachers from Canada and Kenya were questioned about their perceptions of gender appropriateness of various sports. They completed Likert-type questionnaires related to sport/physical activities found in their respective university curricula. For those sports that appeared in both countries, responses were compared (2 x 2 ANOVA) for effects of culture and gender. Gender differences were also addressed within each culture.Results revealed that Canadian respondents perceived fewer sports to be on the extremes of the male-female continuum than did the Kenyan respondents. Females in both cultures considered more sports to be appropriate for both male and female participation than did their male counterparts. However, Canadian and Kenyan respondents, both male and female, unanimously perceived some sports to be primarily appropriate for males and others primarily appropriate for females.
The study supports Metheny's contention of cultural variance in perceptions of the gender appropriateness of sports. Although many sports that had been considered inappropriate for females in 1964 are today considered to be androgynous, especially by Canadians, some gender stereotyping still remains to be overcome. Implications for physical education teachers are suggested.
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Greene, Amanda E. "A Winning Strategy: Collaboration Between Academia and Athletics." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2019. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/4947.
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Smith, Natalie L., Amanda E. Greene, and Charles Jones. "Work-Based Integrated Learning Workshop." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2019. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/4949.
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Burton, Elissa J. "Organisational effectiveness in selected grass roots sport clubs in Western Australia." Thesis, Edith Cowan University, Research Online, Perth, Western Australia, 2009. https://ro.ecu.edu.au/theses/11.
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Grass roots sport clubs are the foundation for sport in Australia, they cater for mass participation across all ages and are predominantly managed by volunteers. The benefits of being involved in sport and in particular a sport club, both from a health and social capital perspective are well documented (Houlihan & Green, 2006; Hoye & Nicholson, 2008; Stewart, Nicholson, Smith, & Westerbeek, 2004). Australian governments at every level, provide funding for sport to support these benefits and often directly to sport clubs. Yet there is little published research on what makes a grass roots sport club effective (Koski, 1995), particularly in Australia. Organisational effectiveness is difficult to define, is constantly changing and usually requires the organisation to determine what is to be measured for effectiveness (Cameron, 1986b). Due to the difficulty in defining organisational effectiveness, researchers began to develop models, which are used to measure the effectiveness of an organisation rather than define it. These models can be onedimensional or multi-dimensional in nature. However, limitations exist with this method of determining organisational effectiveness, because the criteria of effectiveness is predetermined and may not be specific to the organisation/s needs (Kent & Weese, 2000).
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Fischesser, Sarah M. ""Thanks to Title IX" : female athletes' identifications and team sports in transition." Related electronic resource: Current Research at SU : database of SU dissertations, recent titles available, full text:, 2008. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/syr/main.
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Hemmelgarn, Mary F. "Franchise Relocation in the Four Major Professional Sports Leagues: An Analysis of General Trends." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2013. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/cmc_theses/584.
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Over sixty franchise relocations have occurred across the four major professional sports leagues in the United States, Major League Baseball, the National Basketball Association, National Football League and National Hockey League. By taking a look at the changes in four factors that occurred from the pre-move to post-move site of each franchise and move date, years in pre-move location and winning percentage of each franchise pre-move, this paper is able to determine general trends in determining why franchises move from and to particular locations. The six factors that are looked at in this study are standard metropolitan area size, moved date, years in pre-move location, racial demographics, per capita income and unemployment rate.
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Kennedy, Nicholas B. "Built to Succeed: An Econometric Study of NBA Roster Composition and Playoff Success." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2014. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/cmc_theses/918.
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NBA general managers are responsible for all aspects of roster management and seek to acquire players with complementary skills. Ayer (2012) examines elements of roster composition, including player types and the impact of the composition of a team’s top two and three players on winning games. I expand the literature on roster composition by redefining player types and examining the impact of star and role player combinations on playoff success. Contrary to popular belief, I find that general managers should avoid superstar point guards, as teams featuring this player type tend to underperform in the playoffs. The results of this study suggest that teams should seek to acquire, among other player types, two elite wings, one defensive-specialist, and one three-point specialist, all found on a total of five championship teams from 1994 to 2013.
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McConnell, Jeremy Patrick. "Predictors of Morbidity and Mortality Among Thoracic Trauma Patients." Scholarly Commons, 2019. https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/uop_etds/3555.
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Background. There are roughly 300,000 rib fractures treated for in the United States each year. These represent 10-26% of thoracic trauma injuries and have about a 10% mortality rate. There is a common belief that mortality in rib fracture patients can be contributed to the diagnosis of pneumonia, but this study does not support that claim. Purpose. To determine the predictors of morbidity and mortality in rib fracture patients. Methods. Using a level 1 trauma center patient registry, we retrospectively analyzed all patients that were admitted with at least one rib fracture (n=1,344). All predictors were analyzed with linear regressions. Results. The average age of the patients was 55.48 ± 20.29 years old and ranged between 15 and 98. ISS (OR: 1.0508, p<0.001), bilateral fractures (OR: 1.9495, p = 0.009) and pulmonary contusion (OR: 1.7481, p = 0.022) were all significant predictors of pneumonia. The age of the patient (OR: 1.0467, p < 0.001), ISS (OR: 1.0585, p <0.001), having 6 or more fractured ribs (OR: 3.1450, p < 0.001), the presence of hemothorax (OR: 2.5063, p = 0.048), and the use of mechanical ventilation (OR: 13.2125, p < 0.001) were all significant predictors of mortality. Flail segments (OR: 1.9871, p = 0.067), ISS (OR: 1.1267, p < 0.001), pulmonary contusions (OR: 1.5329, p = 0.047), pneumothorax (OR: 1.4372, p =0.073) and pneumonia (OR: 21.4516, p < 0.001) are all predictors of requiring mechanical ventilation. Conclusion. There are many studies that indicate rib fracture patients who are diagnosed with pneumonia have a higher risk or mortality. With this in mind, the logical course of treatment would be to counteract the complications pneumonia brings as to reduce the risk or mortality. To do this, it is recommend the patient be put on mechanical ventilation. While this has been seen to help with pneumonia patients, this study provides evidence that health care professionals should look for ways to reduce the need for mechanical ventilation instead of using it to combat the pneumonia.