Although the right to participate in sports is recognized in international conventions, accessibility to sports facilities has been cited as barriers to participation. Managers of sports facilities must know the standards that refer to the rules and accessibility to meet the needs of persons with ...
Author(s)
Fitri, M.; Abidin, N. E. Z.; Novan, N. A.; Kumalasari, I.; Haris, F.; Mulyana, B.; Khoo, S.; Yaacob, N.
Publisher
MDPI AG, Basel, Switzerland
Citation
Sustainability, 2022, 14, 21,
Some NCAA athletic conferences have implemented a geographic travel partner strategy when scheduling league games. Teams are organized into two-team clusters. A visiting team comes to the region and plays both opponents during one road trip before returning to campus. Prior research reveals NBA...
Author(s)
Mitchell, M.; Wathen, S.; Orwig, R.
Publisher
United States Sports Academy, Alabama, USA
Citation
The Sport Journal, 2019, 22,
Research question: While national sporting governing bodies are encouraged to implement programmes which seek to enhance their international sporting success, comparative studies on elite sport policies have provided limited empirical evidence in support of the relationship between such...
Author(s)
Valenti, M.; Scelles, N.; Morrow, S.
Publisher
Routledge, Abingdon, UK
Citation
European Sport Management Quarterly, 2020, 20, 3, pp 300-320
The current investigation examined sport type differences in eight fan motives: escape, economic (i.e., gambling), eustress (i.e., positive arousal), self-esteem, group affiliation, entertainment, family, and aesthetics. Participants (final sample N=886) completed a questionnaire packet assessing...
Author(s)
Wann, D. L.; Grieve, F. G.; Zapalac, R. K.; Pease, D. G.
Publisher
Fitness Information Technology, Inc., Morgantown, USA
Citation
Sport Marketing Quarterly, 2008, 17, 1, pp 6-19
Objectives: Sports games are inherently emotional situations. Although a plethora of research has investigated how athletes' emotions influence their own performance, scant attention has been paid to how one person's emotional expressions influence others in the sports context. In particular, it...
Author(s)
Kleef, G. A. van; Cheshin, A.; Koning, L. F.; Wolf, S. A.
Publisher
Elsevier Ltd, Oxford, UK
Citation
Psychology of Sport and Exercise, 2019, 41, pp 1-11
Asian countries have emerged as an important player in international sport business. In particular, China, Japan, and Korea are frequent hosts of the Olympics, FIFA World Cup, and other international mega sports events. At the same time, their domestic sports industries also have grown...
Publisher
Routledge, Abingdon, UK
Citation
Journal of Global Sport Management, 2019, 4, 2, pp 121-209
This book examines the 20th century history of the ten most popular sports in Britain. It also tries to cover developments in Scotland, Wales, Ireland and England. The book provides the origin, the power structure, the relationship between the participatory mass and the eminent, and the role of...
Publisher
Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK
Citation
Sport in Britain: a social history, 2010, pp 363 pp.
The inclusion of transwomen into elite female sport has been brought into question recently with World Rugby banning transwomen from the elite female competition, aiming to prioritise safety over fairness and inclusion, citing the size, force and power-producing advantages conferred to transwomen....
Author(s)
Hamilton, B. R.; Barrett, J.; Guppy, F. M.; Seal, L.; Pitsiladis, Y.
Publisher
Taylor & Francis, Abingdon, UK
Citation
European Journal of Sport Science, 2021, 21, 11, pp 1500-1509
According to the bibliography, the football-tennis game appeared internationally in 1922, when members of the Slavia Prague football club in the Czech Republic began to practice a sport in their free time, which they then called ''football over the rope''. In fact, the name football-tennis comes...
Author(s)
Rizescu, A. M.; Cordun, M.
Publisher
University of Pitesti, Arges, Romania
Citation
Journal of Physical Education and Sport, 2022, 22, 8, pp 1955-1961
Background: Anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) injuries are disabling and are associated with the early onset of posttraumatic osteoarthritis. Little is known regarding the incidence rate of first-time noncontact ACL injuries sustained during athletic events and how they are independently influenced...
Author(s)
Beynnon, B. D.; Vacek, P. M.; Newell, M. K.; Tourville, T. W.; Smith, H. C.; Shultz, S. J.; Slauterbeck, J. R.; Johnson, R. J.
Publisher
Sage Publications Ltd, London, UK
Citation
American Journal of Sports Medicine, 2014, 42, 8, pp 1806-1812