Top Research Papers on Sports

This statement summarises evidence-informed principles of concussion prevention, assessment and management, and emphasises those areas requiring more research.

It is concluded that exercise-induced hypoglycaemia is uncommon in adolescent diabetic patients with satisfactory blood glucose control and that hypoglycanemia need not limit exercise in these young people provided appropriate precautions have been taken.

The results seem to suggest the convenience of using differentiated strategies, according to gender and age, when working on all those protective factors that could allow the athlete to perform better when facing adversity in the competitive environment.

Sport is popularly considered as a sphere separate from 'important' aspects of social and political dynamics. Sociological and anthropological studies have proven the opposite: both active and passive involvements in competitive sports take part in shaping and undermining collective identities, as well as in political mobilization around these identities. This course takes a global and comparative perspective to follow the processes through which national, racial, ethnic, civic, religious, local and gender identities are constructed by sport. Special emphasis is given to: The significance of s...

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: This study enhances the theoretical framework of ethnic sports, folk sports, and grassroots sports culture from cultural, sociological, and economic perspectives. It clarifies the concepts related to multiculturalism, multiculturalism, ethnic sports, and folk sports. Based on this foundation, an analysis of the origins of ethnic sports, folk sports, and grassroots sports is conducted from a multicultural perspective. In ancient China, there was no concept of "sports" in the modern sense, but there existed a rich variety of traditional ethnic sports and physical activities with diverse forms....

ABSTRACT Sport and the natural environment have an intimate relationship threatened by global warming and climate change. Individual sport organizations and events to the collective global sport sector must address climate change on two primary fronts – (1) reducing their impact on the natural environment resulting in climate change to sustain the environments individual sport organizations and events taking place and (2) sustaining sport from changing environments due to climate change. This paper examines previous research from these two fronts, and gaps are identified that can inform future...

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Written from a sport management perspective, rather than from a lawyer’s, this unique book covers all the major areas presented in sports law today including: cases relating to torts, contracts, intellectual property, and agents. Factual scenarios throughout the text allow students to critically examine and apply sport management principles to legal issues facing the sports executive. The early chapters provide an overview of sports law in general terms and explore its impact on race, politics, religion, and everyday affairs. Later chapters address hot button issues such as gender equity, drug...

The implementation of a Psychiatric Basic Assessment (PBA) in the PPE is proposed and presented in terms of content.

The findings indicated that a multi-faceted approach embracing multiple advancement strategies was reportedly essential for progressing safe sport and a framework for achieving safeguarding sport was proposed, defined by the prevention of harm and the promotion of positive values in sport.

Sport is one of the most popular social activities in the world. It is also one of the most thriving industries from an economic standpoint. The sport sector is at the crossroads of economic, political and social issues. For this reason, sport organisations have to consider sustainability as a major concern. When facing such major issues (environmental protection, social connections, the concern of business for society), sport can appear as the “most important insubstantial thing”. But it could be seen both as the best and the worst example in terms of sustainability. This article addresses tw...

There is a need for longitudinal investigations, as well as more focus on youth populations, participant events, and smaller-sized events to advance the research agenda for sport participation outcomes from sport events.

Based on the results of this study, it can be said that the developed system is valid and can be used to process basic motor skills possessed by athletes or students.

This article analyzes the opinions of Polish male (n = 18) and female (n = 18) sports journalists on the representation of women’s sports in media coverage. The surveyed journalists represented journalists from national television stations, radio stations, and press and Internet media. Some of them were working simultaneously in various mass media outlets. In-depth interviews were conducted in various locations in Poland in 2018. An analysis of the journalists’ views from 36 semi-structured interviews indicated a general consensus among the surveyed sports journalists, both male and female, on...

Sports psychiatry in competitive sports will be addressed and mental health promotion and prevention, the tandem concept of interprofessional care and collaboration, diagnosis, treatment, and aftercare of mental disorders and illnesses, and education and training in sports psychiatry will be presented and discussed.

ABSTRACT A “gamblification” of sport has occurred over the last 25 years. Sports betting operators are now major sponsors of sport, and gambling activities and cultures are firmly embedded into sport. This paper considers the key issues affecting harmful gambling amongst sport audiences arising from this gamblification and implications for sport management. A narrative literature review identifies seven key issues: 1) harmful sports betting and negative consequences, 2) increased access to sports betting through smartphones, 3) innovated betting options that appeal most to bettors already expe...

ABSTRACT There has been extensive debate among various disciplines about the nature and value of play. From these discussions it seems clear that play is a phenomenon with more than just one dimension: as a specific type of activity, as a form or structure, as an ontologically distinctive phenomenon, as a type of experience, or as a stance or an attitude towards a particular activity. This article focuses on the importance of the playful attitude in sport. It begins by attempting to describe the underpinning features of a playful attitude, and its relation to Suits’ lusory attitude and the con...

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This review concludes that ROS play a critical role in the processes of training adaptation induced by resistance training through a reduction in inflammatory mediators and oxidative stress, as well as appropriate molecular signaling.

This article investigates the intersection of three interrelated trends: first, the positioning of sport as a contributor to sustainable development, particularly in regard to the increasing corporatization of sport for development (SFD); second, the trend toward sustainable development in the extractives industry, as taken up within a corporate social responsibility (CSR) approach; and third, the intersection of SFD and CSR when mobilized in pursuit of sustainable development in Indigenous communities in Canada. To do so, we examined the sustainability documents of Rio Tinto, the largest mini...

The challenges facing women and girls in sport have a long history and many interventions to address these challenges have occurred over the years. It is well documented that these challenges no longer simply apply to female’s active participation in sport and physical activity but through all aspects of the sporting landscape, i.e. coaching, officiating, leadership, governance and visibility. Though time has seen improvements naturally, Sport Ireland financial support and dedicated women in sport programmes developed as a result have had positive impacts which are explored in this paper.Using...

This paper presents the author’s aspiration to determine a connection between cartography and sports. Cartography, created even before the advent of writing, allowed man to portray a part of the space in which he lived. This way of connecting cartography with other scientific disciplines has been done on several occasions. Its connection with, for example, ecology, climatology, hydrography has been explained, so this will be another in a series of works from a wide range of scientific fields with which a connection is made. The aim of this paper is to determine possible connections between car...

The expanded content can serve as an outline for continuing education postfellowship or for any physician to further advance their sports ultrasound knowledge and skill and is applicable to the broader sports medicine community.

This paper mainly uses the literature data method and questionnaire survey method to investigate the sports motivation and sports participation behavior of college sports club students, uses mathematical statistics to organize and analyze the data, and mainly uses SPSS software to analyze the data, ANOVA, T-test, correlation analysis, multiple regression analysis and other operations, the conclusions are:(1)there are differences in the sports motivation of students of different sex, different majors and different grades;(2) there are significant differences in the sports participation behavior...

 This article discusses the analysis of the implementation of the development of educational sports, achievement sports, recreational sports, and sports with disabilities, all sports activities in Indonesia must be in line with all the rules contained in Law no. 3, Th. 2005, SKN. The Indonesian people hope that the presence of Law no. 3, Th. 2005, SKN as a legal umbrella that protects and guides all sporting activities will bring changes for the better, which can raise the dignity of the Indonesian nation in the eyes of the world. In its implementation, Law No. 3 SKN brings positive and negati...

In development through sports, sports recreation is one of the important instruments in the progress of the nation through sports. The special role of recreational sports is to increase community participation in sports in order to improve physical fitness. The policy is an important key in achieving the paradigm of development through sports, one of which is the focus of developing recreational sports. Therefore, we conducted a literature study in analyzing recreational sports policy in development through sport. Optional Reporting Items for the Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis Methods (PR...

This study aims to determine the improvement of sports management capabilities in North Sumatra in 2020. This research method is a descriptive method. The number of samples was 34 people with sampling techniques with purposive sampling techniques. The research instrument is a questionnaire with data analysis techniques by comparing the two pree test averages = 78 (medium), and the post-test average = 84.5 (good). The results of this study indicate that there is a significant increase in the capacity of the management ability of provincial sports administrators in North Sumatra in 2020. There i...

ABSTRACT This paper side-steps the question of whether ‘the’ concept of sport exists, or can be usefully analysed. Instead, I try to explain the much more modest aim of exhibition-analysis, which is to seek a description of an actually existing example of some concept of sport internal to a normative position. My example is that of Olympic-sport. I try to set out its logically necessary conditions, which of course are conditioned by its context within a theory that emphasises the values of formal competition, citius-altius-fortius, and excellence in contest, as well as rule-based procedural va...

Positive experiences of organized sport participation may offer additional wellbeing value above and beyond other recreational physical activity types in young people who are active.

How sport psychology is important to sports medicine and what applied sport psychologists do is addressed.

Through an in-depth analysis of the definition and development of sports biomechanics, this paper emphasizes the core role of this discipline in optimizing athletic performance, preventing sports injuries, and facilitating the rehabilitation process.

A dearth of literature exists examining coffee-specific ergogenic and recovery effects, as well as variability in the operational definition of “coffee,” making conclusions more challenging than when examining caffeine in its many other forms of delivery.

ABSTRACT This exploratory study examines correlations between political ideology and the popularity of 53 sports in the United States using geographical units of analysis. Regional interest in sports was measured using Google Trends search data from Nielsen’s 207 designated media market areas. Voting data from the 2020 Presidential Election (percent Trump vote) was used to characterise each area’s political ideology. A measure of the sports’ cultural dominance was developed through a large-scale, computer-aided content analysis of sports news. Areas with high levels of Trump support tended to ...

Abstract:Previous research suggests that fantasy sport users are avid sport fans and therefore consume more content from media. With a rapidly changing media environment and consumers’ viewing habits, this study sought to investigate the role of playing fantasy sport on sport media consumption across both traditional and new media platforms as well as the type of social media usage before, during, and after the sporting event. Data from a national consumer panel representative of the US adult population (N = 615) showed that fantasy sport consumption enhances the level of media consumption acr...

Abstract In recent decades there has been an increasing concern among stakeholders surrounding sport organisations regarding the implementation of governance principles and processes. It is believed that these can help them to overcome sustainability problems and to promote organisational success. This research aims to analyse the governance of Catalan sports federations (CSFs), an area that has not been analysed to date. The study, based on previous approaches in the sport management literature, proposes a model to measure three dimensions considered key to good governance in sport organisati...

This study aims appreciate the Journal Sport Area for the achievement of a nationally accredited rank the 2nd in 2020 by evaluating the publication patterns and scientific progress of the Journal Sport Area between 2016 and 2020 which includes the most productive authors, the most productive institutions, the most cited articles, the number of citations, and the level of author collaboration. This research is a qualitative descriptive study with a bibliometric analysis approach. Bibliometric analysis is used to evaluate publication patterns and scientific progress by adding data visualization ...

The authors create a new construct, “context-awareness,” with four dimensions: tracking, coaching, sharing and gamification, which suggests that perceived technology characteristics mediate the relationship between context-aware features and intention to use.

In settler-colonial contexts, the use of sport for reconciliation (SFR) has received increasing attention from national governments and their sporting agencies, though researchers have yet to track the development of SFR across settler colonial contexts. In this study, we examined how government sport policies in Australia, Canada, and Aotearoa/New Zealand frame understandings of reconciliation.  Through the application of both policy and frame analysis to 82 documents from 1970s to 2020, we argue that policy framings have shifted from presenting Indigenous peoples as a homogenous disadvantage...

DeepSportradar-v2, a multi-sport suite of CV tasks that address the need for high-quality datasets for different sports, is introduced and a competition has been organized as part of the MMSports workshop, where participants are invited to develop state-of-the-art methods for solving the proposed tasks using the publicly available datasets, development kits, and baselines.

Since the late 20th century, governments, international agencies, nonprofit organizations, and entrepreneurs have increasingly promoted sport as a tool to deliver development goals. The efforts to harness sport, and football (soccer) in particular, to address socioeconomic ills in Africa have mushroomed throughout the continent ever since. Sport-for-development initiatives have been focused on improving the well-being of communities through increasing social cohesion, peacebuilding, and reconciliation; improving the health of individuals and groups by educating the youth on HIV/AIDS; empowerin...

ABSTRACT Research question In a fast-changing world, this study poses a simple question: is it time to start looking at sport in a different way? Thus far, utilitarian and neoclassical economic thinking has dominated sport management scholarship; however, here it is asked: should scholars now be thinking in terms of a new geopolitical economy of sport? Research methods This is a commentary paper based upon pieces of literature drawn from sport management, geography, politics and economics. Results and findings The submission contends that scholarly activity in sport needs to be reoriented towa...

This article provides empirical evidence of ‘defensive mediatization strategies’ in the field of sport. These are strategies used by actors individually and collectively to control and sometimes avoid media publicity—for example, by refusing requests for media interviews, or in the case of an organization, by making media literacy training available to its staff. In this article, we use the concept of defensive mediatization strategies to identify and illuminate some of the challenges facing professional sports journalists in the postbroadcast era. The article draws on findings from an ongoing...

Sports have become a good source of livelihood and entertainment. From time-to-time sports organizations witness violent and non-violent situations which define crisis. Violence can be internally or externally and poses a serious obstacle to effective sports management around the globe. The impact of violence in sports is really capable of inducing severe consequences or even disaster if inappropriate strategic moves are made or adopted, planned or devised. Many persons lost their source of livelihood as a result of the crisis in sports. The issue of how sports organizations can develop and ma...

A systematic review of publications that presented performance analysis tools and methods in all sports, with a final focus on racket sports, and identified specific approaches for specific sports as well as key countries.

Abstract Migration over recent years has meant that issues of integration are high on the agenda. Sports clubs are considered important settings for promoting integration. This notion is reflected in national and international policy documents. This study focuses on how leaders in a non-profit sports club, operating in a community where a majority have a migrant background, work with the stated goal of promoting integration. The aim of this study is to explore how leaders interpret and negotiate their explicit assignment to promote integration and counteract segregation and how they try to imp...

Despite over 30 years of scholarly attention devoted to bullying and cyberbullying behaviors in school settings, research related to these experiences in the sport context remains limited. Yet, numerous anecdotal examples and preliminary evidence suggests cyberbullying exists in the sport domain and must be addressed given the potential adverse psychosocial outcomes for athletes. This commentary reviews research related to bullying and cyberbullying in the sport literature. To advance our understanding of cyberbullying in sport, recommendations are made to clarify conceptual issues around the ...

The expanded content can serve as an outline for continuing education postfellowship or for any physician to further advance their sports ultrasound knowledge and skill and is applicable to the broader sports medicine community.

This study aimed to assess the impact of sports anxiety on the sports performance of players. The sample was comprised of 110 sports players (68 males, 42 females). The data was collected by using the probability sampling technique of purposive sampling from Sports Players that belong to Bahawalpur and Multan cities of Punjab Province. The age range of the respondents of this cross-sectional research was from 18 to 35years. Demographic information such as age, gender, qualifications, Area, marital status, socioeconomic status, and which kind of sport they play was also asked from them. Two que...

Research on women’s sport (i.e. specifically on sport played by women, e.g. participation) and women in sport (i.e. more broadly any roles hold by women in sport, e.g. leadership roles) has been increasing over time, particularly in the last decade. In the social sciences, humanities and management disciplines of sport (as opposed to sport sciences, e.g. physiological demands and player physical characteristics), this growth has been highlighted by several recent literature reviews (Burton 2015, Fink 2015, Valenti et al. 2018, Hartzell and Dixon 2019, Evans and Pfister 2020). Another illustrat...