Purpose: The quantity of media coverage of sports played by females has not achieved parity with coverage of sports played by males. Additionally, coverage of sport played by females is often regarded as boring, uninteresting, and bland. The current study tests the hypothesis that as exposure to ...
Publisher
United States Sports Academy, Alabama, USA
Citation
The Sport Journal, 2023, 26, 21,
Purpose: An athlete's motivation and sport performance is impacted by their environment, including the interpersonal relationship between athlete and coach. What messages the coach conveys, and how those messages are received, can impact performance. Conveying messages via controlling message...
Author(s)
Fasczewski, K. S.; Bramblett, P. N.; Bobo, L. K.; Peterman, J.; Shanely, R. A.
Publisher
United States Sports Academy, Alabama, USA
Citation
The Sport Journal, 2023, 26, 20,
This article investigates the use of sports mega-events by nations in East Asia to leverage 'soft power'. The focus is on Japan and its 'soft power' strategies, building on existing work by adding a novel tripartite analysis to understand Japan's domestic, regional and international rationale for...
Author(s)
Jeong Joonoh; Grix, J.
Publisher
Routledge, Abingdon, UK
Citation
Sport in Society: Cultures, Commerce, Media, Politics, 2023, 26, 10, pp 1756-1776
Members of the Romanian elites encouraged various leisure and sporting activities from the late nineteenth century but most notably from the turn of the twentieth century onwards and during the post-WWI period. Some even become sportsmen and sportswomen recognized both nationally and...
Publisher
Routledge, Abingdon, UK
Citation
Sport in Society: Cultures, Commerce, Media, Politics, 2023, 26, 10, pp 1738-1755
This article responds to the recent call made in Sport in Society for scholarship that examines the social and political tensions of the age through cricket. Cricket is shown to be an international sport that emphasises the material, political and symbolic realities of the global climate crisis....
Author(s)
Hutchins, B.; Troon, S.; Miller, T.; Lester, L.
Publisher
Routledge, Abingdon, UK
Citation
Sport in Society: Cultures, Commerce, Media, Politics, 2023, 26, 10, pp 1723-1737
Much like in a myriad of other domains of the modern society, 'security' remains a highly contentious and debated area of 'online' and 'offline' football fan cultures. Against this starting point, this article critically examines how football fans respond to and contest key developments under the...
Author(s)
Ludvigsen, J. A. L.
Publisher
Routledge, Abingdon, UK
Citation
Sport in Society: Cultures, Commerce, Media, Politics, 2023, 26, 10, pp 1685-1700
The written press for young people participates in the primary socialization - and therefore in the sports socialization - of its readers and can therefore open up the field of possibilities, arouse admiration or even "vocations", as well as participate in a broader process of...
Author(s)
Gozillon, A.; Guérandel, C.; Richard, A.; Walter, E.
Publisher
Routledge, Abingdon, UK
Citation
Sport in Society: Cultures, Commerce, Media, Politics, 2023, 26, 10, pp 1665-1684
This paper will discuss whether the sport of netball has the potential to interpellate a feminine style of body comportment through its rules. Feminine body comportment is a term popularised by Young's essay 'Throwing Like a Girl' (2005) to indicate how women typically present their bodies when...
Publisher
Routledge, Abingdon, UK
Citation
Sport in Society: Cultures, Commerce, Media, Politics, 2023, 26, 10, pp 1647-1664
This article explores the phenomenon of drug-themed chanting among Greek Ultras. We reviewed 440 chants from 11 Greek football clubs to examine the role of these chants, discussing critically the reasons that led to their genesis and their reproduction. We found multiple references to substances...
Author(s)
Skliamis, K.; Chatzinakos, G.
Publisher
Routledge, Abingdon, UK
Citation
Sport in Society: Cultures, Commerce, Media, Politics, 2023, 26, 10, pp 1627-1646
Introduction: Football presents a high rate of lower limb injuries and high incidence of Anterior Cruciate Ligament (ACL) rupture, especially in women. Due to this there is the need to optimize current prevention programs. This study aims to verify the possibility to reduce the biomechanical risk...
Author(s)
Spolaor, F.; Guiotto, A.; Ciniglio, A.; Cibin, F.; Sawacha, Z.
Publisher
Frontiers Media S.A., Lausanne, Switzerland
Citation
Frontiers in Sports and Active Living, 2023, 5, July,