What are the myths and realities of the Scandinavian sport model? The author analyses four constituents of the Scandinavian sport model, using Norwegian football as an example. For adult football, there is clear discrepancy between conceptions and realities, while the current model describes the...
Publisher
Routledge, Abingdon, UK
Citation
Soccer and Society, 2019, 20, 2, pp 341-359
Natural turfgrass sports fields can be highly variable depending on construction, usage, and management. Research involving athlete - surface interactions often fails to thoroughly account for variability by grouping these fields into the single category of "natural turfgrass." This can obscure...
Author(s)
Straw, C. M.; Samson, C. O.; Henry, G. M.; Brown, C. N.
Publisher
Wiley, Hoboken, USA
Citation
Agronomy Journal, 2020, 112, 4, pp 2401-2417
Background: The use of artificial turf in American football continues to grow in popularity, and the effect of these playing surfaces on athletic injuries remains controversial. Knee injuries account for a significant portion of injuries in the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) ...
Author(s)
Loughran, G. J.; Vulpis, C. T.; Murphy, J. P.; Weiner, D. A.; Svoboda, S. J.; Hinton, R. Y.; Milzman, D. P.
Publisher
Sage Publications Ltd, London, UK
Citation
American Journal of Sports Medicine, 2019, 47, 6, pp 1294-1301
Background: Numerous injuries have been attributed to playing on artificial turf. Over the past 2 decades, however, newer generations of synthetic turf have been developed to duplicate the playing characteristics of natural grass. Although synthetic turf has been determined to be safer than natural ...
Publisher
Sage Publications Ltd, London, UK
Citation
American Journal of Sports Medicine, 2013, 41, 10, pp 2409-2420
Cricket is a team sport that dates back to the 13th Century. Its many traditions and terminologies are not the easiest to explain to someone who has never seen it before, or indeed to someone watching it live for the very first time. In 2018, over a thousand Test Match Cricket spectators were...
Author(s)
Wright, R. K.; Doyle, J.; Ali, H.
Publisher
Springer Berlin, Heidelberg, Germany
Citation
German Journal of Exercise and Sport Research, 2020, 50, 3, pp 385-394
This article presents perennial grasses, without whose presence it is impossible to imagine the natural environment as well as agriculture, recreation, sport, and satisfactory aesthetics of the environment. Grasses have by far the widest distribution of all flowering families, grow on every...
Author(s)
Wiewióra, B.; Żurek, G.
Publisher
MDPI Publishing, Basel, Switzerland
Citation
Agronomy, 2023, 13, 4,
Purpose: This paper presents a study of atmospheric climate impacts on community-level sports clubs' (CLSC) in Australia and Canada, their vulnerability and resilience, and organisational responses. Design/Methods: A qualitative methodology was used with a multiple case research design. Data...
Author(s)
Dingle, G.; Mallen, C.
Publisher
Routledge, Abingdon, UK
Citation
Managing Sport and Leisure, 2021, 26, 4, pp 301-325
Sporting events are becoming more prevalent within protected areas. To investigate the potential for trail runners to facilitate alien plant introductions into a protected area, we identified plants germinating from material from shoes obtained from 682 trail runners prior to four races in a South ...
Author(s)
Smith, K.; Kraaij, T.
Publisher
Elsevier, Oxford, UK
Citation
Journal of Outdoor Recreation and Tourism, 2020, 31,
An investigation into the Desso Grassmaster system and its increased use on various types of sport pitches around the world. Grassmaster is one of a few systems that has enabled increased hours of play compared to more conventional surfaces. "The health and safety and social benefits from sports ...
Author(s)
Birch, D.; Butters, L.
Publisher
Universitatea de Științe Agronomice și Medicină Veterinară București, București, Romania
Citation
Lucrări Științifice - Universitatea de Științe Agronomice și Medicină Veterinară București. Seria B, Horticultură, 2011, No.55, pp 261-270
The aim of this study is to examine the stadium grass types of the teams in the Turkish professional football leagues and the distribution of these grass types among the leagues. In the study, grass types in the stadiums of 145 teams in the Turkish professional football leagues in the 2020-2021...
Publisher
Kadir Yildiz, Manisa, Turkey
Citation
Eurasian Journal of Sport Sciences and Education, 2021, 3, 1, pp 51-60