Top Research Papers on Sports

Research question: The paper questions the widespread conceptualisation of sport as industry and business in the research field of sport management. It asks if the field largely neglects sport's special quality and the study of how managing sport organisations has effects on sport and the sporting human.Research methods: The paper briefly reviews the recent debate of the sport management research field in its three leading journals, but despite being empirical in part, it is foremost a position and conceptual paper. To bring sport back to the centre of the research field, it suggests that spor...

I. INTRODUCTION AND REVIEW OF ECONOMIC CONCEPTS 1. Introduction 2. Review of the Economist's Arsenal II. THE INDUSTRIAL ORGANIZATION OF SPORTS 3. Sports Franchises as Profit-Maximizing Firms 4. Monopoly and Antitrust 5. Competitive Balance III. THE PUBLIC FINANCE OF SPORTS 6. The Public Finance of Sports: The Market for Sports Franchises 7. The Costs and Benefits of a Franchise to a City IV. THE LABOR ECONOMICS OF SPORTS 8. An Introduction to Labor Markets in Professional Sports 9. Labor Unions and Labor Relations 10. Discrimination 11. The Economics of Amateurism and College Sports

The relationship between sport and the natural environment is bidirectional and critical to the production of sport products, events, and experiences. Researchers have studied sport and the natural environment within the various subdisciplines of sport management. However, given the changing climate and mounting public concern for the environment, there is pressure to reconsider the relevance and significance of the natural environment, which is taken for granted in managerial contexts. Reflecting the importance of the natural environment, the robustness of the current literature, and the pote...

A framework to inform the resumption of sport is developed based on current best evidence, and guidelines from the Australian Federal Government, extrapolated into the sporting context by specialists in sport and exercise medicine, infectious diseases and public health.

Partial table of contents: SKILL ACQUISITION.Levels of Performance Skill: From Beginners to Experts (C. Wrisberg).Skill Acquisition During Childhood and Adolescence (K. Thomas, et al.).Attention (B. Abernethy).Expert Performance in Sport and Dance (J. Starkes, et al.).PSYCHOLOGICAL CHARACTERISTICS OF HIGH LEVEL PERFORMANCE.Modeling: Considerations for Motor Skill Performance and Psychological Responses (P. McCullagh & M. Weis).Personality and the Athlete: Challenges and Promises for the Next Decade (Y. Auweele, et al.).Self--Efficacy Beliefs of Athletes, Teams, and Coaches (D. Feltz & C. Lirgg...

There are mixed findings for the effect of taurine consumption on improving recovery from training bouts and/or mitigating muscle damage and limited and varied findings prohibit definitive conclusions regarding the efficacy of tauri on aerobic and anaerobic performance and metabolic outcomes.

Sport now has to compete for the consumer dollar with a vast array of leisure activities online as well as offline. Successful sport marketing is the result of carefully structured planning, creativity and perseverance.Integrating the unique characteristics of sport with traditional marketing theory, Strategic Sport Marketing presents a framework of strategic decision-making. The authors outline the diverse markets for sport: participants, sponsors, spectators and fans. International case studies and 'sportviews' selected from a wide range of sports and media illustrate the unique features of ...

These are extraordinary times. Less because we are currently in the midst of a global pandemic;
\nhumanity has been here multiple times in the past, sometimes with even more devastating
\nresults (the ‘Black Death’ of 1346–1353, or Cocolitzli Epidemics in the 16th
\nCentury, for example). Rather, these are extraordinary times due to both the huge shutting
\ndown of industry, travel and borders, and the enormous level of coverage and discussion
\nof the crisis through both traditional and social media formats (Stevens & Prins, 2020).
\nMoreover, global, regional and ...

This narrative review aims to summarise, and critically evaluate, different tracking systems and their use within team sports, and examples of characteristics and the application of tracking data across seven popular team sports.

Evidence is reviewed to clearly determine the potential utility of genotyping for detecting sports talent, enhancing training, or preventing exercise-related injuries, and to present an overview of recent research that has attempted to correct the methodological issues found in previous investigations.

Contents Notes on Contributors Introduction 1 Introduction: Embodied Identities: Reshaping Social Life Through Sport and Dance Noel Dyck and Eduardo Archetti Part I: Training Children's Bodies and Selves 2 Bodying Forth a Room for Everyone: Inclusive Recreational Badminton in Copenhagen Sally Anderson 3 Embodying Success: Identity and Performance in Children's Sport Noel Dyck 4 Embodied Play and Gender Identities in Competitive Handball for Children in Norway Harald Beyer Broch Part II: Reshaping Adult Identities 5 Long-distance Football Support and Liminal Identities Among Norwegian Fans Hans...

The Prisma in Exercise, Rehabilitation, Sport medicine and SporTs science (PERSiST) guidance attempts to address the problem of poor reporting of medical and healthcare systematic reviews.

This commentary seeks to stimulate wider interest on how Covid-19 has changed sport at elite and grassroots level and how the pandemic has led to differential outcomes for people from a variety of socio-economic backgrounds.

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

The future practice of sports medicine specialists will require a fundamental working knowledge of the strengths, limitations, and applications of AI-based tools, as it relates to orthopaedic sports medicine.

Chapter 20 Positive Youth Development Through Sport Nicholas L. Holt, Nicholas L. Holt University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, CanadaSearch for more papers by this authorColin J. Deal, Colin J. Deal University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, CanadaSearch for more papers by this authorKurtis Pankow, Kurtis Pankow University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, CanadaSearch for more papers by this author Nicholas L. Holt, Nicholas L. Holt University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, CanadaSearch for more papers by this authorColin J. Deal, Colin J. Deal University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, CanadaSe...

The authoritative text for current and future practitioners of human resources management in the sport and recreation industries is back in a revised fourth edition. Human Resource Management in Sport and Recreation, Fourth Edition, offers a solid foundation in research and application, and it provides a holistic perspective of human resource management by bringing together the three groups of people who constitute human resources across sport and recreation organizations: paid professionals, volunteers, and the clients themselves. Dr. Packianathan Chelladurai, a pioneer in the field of sport ...

This commentary presents and discusses the similarities and differences between PAP and PAPE and elaborates on a new taxonomy for better describing performance potentiation in sport settings, to avoid erroneous identification of isolated physiological attributes and provide individualization and better applicability of conditioning protocols in sport setting.

This work identifies purposeful measurements of body composition, notably fat and lean muscle masses, and investigates their impact on the health and performance of athletes.

It is found that most studies have shown that AI technology can improve the training level of basketball players, help coaches formulate suitable game strategies, prevent sports injuries, and improve the enjoyment of games, but the number and level of published papers are relatively limited.