Abstracts are presented of 175 papers along with summaries of two panel discussions on: physical culture studies and sport history; and sports and political activism. Topics and sports covered include: basketball; soccer; American football; tennis; colonialism; rodeo; hiking; women; aquatics; the...

This special issue discusses problems in the statistical modelling and analysis of sports data. The issue consists of 14 papers. The first paper examines the use of the Gibbs sampler on each component of the on-base percentage plus slugging percentage (OPS), to compute the situational effect on a...

This supplement includes 13 papers presented at the conference focusing on the relationship between nutrition, performance and health in sport. The topics discussed are: the IOC consensus statement on sports nutrition; energy availability in athletes; carbohydrates for training and competition;...

The four papers in this issue examine the impact of lockouts on player productivity in the National Hockey League, the effects of prospect theory behaviour and momentum on golf performance, the impact of new sports facilities on new businesses in US cities, and the impact of higher draft picks on...

These proceedings contain 100 articles that discuss sports medicine and sports science fields: sports medicine, sports injury (including injury epidemiology and injury prevention), physiotherapy, podiatry, physical activity and health, sports science, biomechanics, exercise physiology, motor...

This issue consists of seven selected papers from the 2017 Sport Business Symposium, which aimed to promote applied research in sport management and marketing. All of the papers are from Spain and deal with the following topics: service recovery in fitness centres; the use of social media by...

Eighteen papers are presented covering various topics in sports science and medicine, including: biomechanics and kinematics in different sports (baseball, rowing, sprint running, swimming and jumping); placebo effects in competitive sport; eating attitudes, perfectionism and body-esteem of ...

These proceedings contain 31 articles that discuss sports medicine and sports science fields: sports medicine, sports injury (including injury epidemiology and injury prevention), physiotherapy, podiatry, physical activity and health, sports science, biomechanics, exercise physiology, motor...

These proceedings include 33 abstracts that explore a variety of issues pertaining to orthopedics and traumatology, sports medicine, and other fields of expertise associated with sports sciences.

This issue is composed of seven papers selected from the 68 papers presented at the 2011 WEAI/NAASE Conference Sports Economics Sessions. The selected papers address topics such as managerial dismissal, game attendance/demand, athlete efficiency, athlete earnings, and financial risk management; and ...