Top Research Papers on Sports

The December 2022 Sports Roundup360 looks at: Anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) repair with dynamic intraligamentary stabilization or anterior ACL at five years?; Femoroacetabular impingement in mild osteoarthritis: is hip arthroscopy the answer?; Steroids in Achilles tendinopathy: A randomized trial.

The October 2023 Sports Roundup360 looks at Extensor mechanism disruption in the treatment of dislocated and multiligament knee injuries, and the VISA-A questionnaire for Achilles tendinopathy.

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AS WE turn the pages of a well-planned newspaper we see that in modern life certain activities are so segregated as to achieve some measure of autotelic and autonomous organization: for instance, medicine, religion, industry, art, science, government, education, sport, etc. In democratic societies these segregations are more complete, at least in the negative sense that no external influence presumes in general to dictate. "Sport," for example, goes its way with but sporadic interference from medicine, education, religion, or government. But at present, within each such field of segregation, o...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine current momentum in the sport policy arena congruent with the sustainable development agenda. It presents two consensus frameworks endorsed by the UN that provide mechanism for coherent action to 2030. With a human rights backdrop it outlines the role of organisations operating in the domains of physical education, physical activity and sport (PEPAS), promoting multidisciplinary partnerships and aligning to global agendas that enhance health and well-being for all. Design/methodology/approach This position paper is a narrative literature revie...

Activities that one can retrospectively label as ‘sport’ have probably been part of human beings’ repertoire for millennia, but sports as we know them today are the product of a modernity that arose from the late eighteenth century at the juncture of civil society, industrial capitalism, muscular Christianity, and the colonial expansion of North Atlantic states. Today, it is deeply intertwined with neoliberal capital, media technology, and neocolonial relations between the Global South and the Global North, as well as structures of inequality within nation-states in the Global North. Despite i...

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Neither physical education nor organized games became truly central to the French imperial project. However, the Republican mission civilisatrice was undoubtedly susceptible to expression through sports. Thus, the contemporary success of French sportsmen and sportswomen with strong family and/or community connections with the formerly colonized territories –such as the so-called Black-Blanc-Beur football team that won a historic first World Cup in 1998 and the similarly multicultural side that triumphed again in 2018– has deep roots in the nation’s colonial past. Such varied activities as hors...

In 1961, the French philosopher Roland Barthes published the text "What is sport?" an order from the Canadian Hubert Aquin, who was producing the documentary "The sport and the men". The article, perhaps by its fortuitous character, was not included in the complete works of Barthes published by Seuil Editions. However, here we have a unique and poetic portrait of the sport through the structuralism eyes of French intellectual. The text is a semiotic analysis on bullfighting in Spain (which Barthes himself does not know whether to include in the category of sports), ice hockey in Canada, cyclin...

A little-known gem, the text of Barthes's What Is Sport? was never reprinted in the Seuil editions of his Complete Works--neither the three-volume version nor the later five-volume edition. It is published here in a graceful and faithful English translation by Pulitzer Prize winner Richard Howard. Originally commissioned by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation as the text for a documentary film directed by Hubert Aquin, What Is Sport? was written three years after the publication of Barthes's Mythologies (1957) and bears considerable resemblance to that work. Some of Barthes's best writing se...

When referring to it as an existential crisis, he warns of the scope and depth of the crisis, also calling it a systemic crisis or a crisis of epochal proportions. He further points out the European Union’s failure to reform, since each reform attempt triggers a rise of nationalism and xenophobia. When it comes to the nation-state, Winfried Böttcher suggests that it has fulfilled its historical role:

ABSTRACT In this paper, I am going to present a condensed version of my theory of what sport is from my book The Philosophy of Football. In that work, I took my starting point in Bernard Suits’ celebrated, though controversial view that a game is “the voluntary attempt to overcome unnecessary obstacles’ and a sport is a game that involves physical skills with a wide following and a wide level of stability. In the monograph, I carefully work through Suits’ theory showing which clauses of the analysis can be kept, which have to be amended and which should be rejected, while adding other elements...

must necessarily begin-what is uppermost in mind is the thought of physical exercise and a moment of high emotion. Of what aspects of sport is one aware? There is physical exertion. For example, the sentence, in French, &dquo;Le medecin m’a recommande de faire du sport&dquo; signifies &dquo;to do exercise.&dquo; There is also a strongly emotional state of mind. The French expression &dquo;Cette reunion, c’etait du sport&dquo; means, unmistakably, &dquo;it was spirited.&dquo; Such metaphors allow us to foresee a possible duality of interpretation whereby we may adopt a medical point of view, re...

The course is designed to study the business dynamics of the four major sports leagues in North America (Major League Baseball, National Basketball Association, National Football League, National Hockey League). It will compare and contrast the different leagues and select franchises (e.g., large market vs. small market, National Football League vs. Major League Baseball, etc.). There will also be a discussion on leadership in the business of sports.

The sports industry is large, visible, and growing—and it has a huge impact on society. That's obvious to die-hard fans who not only watch sporting events but buy everything from balls to ties to paperweights with their favorite team's logo. But even sports haters can't escape the onslaught of professional sports: They are asked to chip in as taxpayers to build public stadiums, and their children are, like it or not, exposed to events sponsored by alcohol and tobacco companies, not to mention the juvenile antics of star athletes. Businesses, of course, take a hit in productivity when the Olymp...

The Business of Sports is the first comprehensive collection of readings to focus on the multibillion-dollar sports industry and the dilemmas faced by today’s sports business leaders. This valuable resource provides a complete overview of major sports business issues and is designed for current and future sports business leaders as well as those interested in the inner-workings of the industry. The book covers professional, Olympic, and collegiate sports, and highlights the major issues that impact each of these broad categories. The readings in The Business of Sports provide insight from a va...

Stirling Academic rigour, journalistic flair In just a few days, over 200 nations will gather in Rio for the opening ceremony of what is, without doubt, the biggest sporting party in the world. The greatest athletes will be gearing up to demonstrate their abilities and countries will be eager to see if their investment in elite sport over the last four years pays off and produces medals. This is an investment that has escalated significantly over the past decade, despite providing no guarantee of success. Although 205 nations took part in the 2012 London games, only 85 won a medal – and 18 won...

Sport is a high profile global business, which excites and entertains, builds allegiances and generates intense rivalries. As such it provides the perfect medium to explore important business concepts of relevance for private, public and not-for-profit organisations. The module looks at concepts such as of value and price in sport, the market for (and marketing of) sports products and services, issues of CSR and ethics in sport and the role of government regulations.

Do former high school athletes make better employees than nonathletes? Two studies examine how participation in competitive youth sports appears to be relevant for early-career job prospects as well as late-in-life outcomes. In the short run, Study 1 shows that people expect former student-athletes to display significantly more leadership, self-confidence, and self-respect than those who were active outside of sports—such as being in the band or on the yearbook staff. In the long run, Study 2 uses biodata to discover that men who participated in varsity-level high school sports an average of 6...