Sport Mechanics for Coaches (4th Edition)
Applied Sport Mechanics, Fourth Edition With Web Study Guide, helps undergraduate students understand how the fundamental laws of human movement affect athletes’ performances. Foundational principles of kinetics, kinematics, and sports technique are clearly presented and then explored through a variety of applied scenarios.
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Sport Psychology Concepts and Applications
Sport Psychology: Concepts and Applications shows how concepts supported by current scientific research can be used to address issues and situations encountered everyday by physical activity specialists, coaches, athletic trainers, and athletes.
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Sport Psychology for Coaches
We marvel at the steely nerves, acute concentration, and flawless execution exhibited on the 18th green, at the free-throw line, in the starting blocks, and on the balance beam. While state-of-the-art training regimens have extended athletes’ physical boundaries, more and more coaches are realizing the importance of sport psychology in taking athletic performance to new […]
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Sportista: Female Fandom in the United States
The typical female sports fan remains very different from her male counterparts. In their insightful and engaging book,Sportista, Andrei S. Markovits and Emily Albertson examine the significant ways many women have become fully conversant with sports-acquiring a knowledge of and passion for them as a way of forging identities that until recently were quite alien […]
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Sports and Identity: New Agendas in Communication
This volume of essays examines the ways in which sports have become a means for the communication of social identity in the United States. The essays included here explore the question, How is identity engaged in the performance and spectatorship of sports? Defining sports as the whole range of mediated professional sports, and considering actual […]
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Sports Coaching Research: Context, Consequences, and Consciousness
This book raises critical questions about the explanatory framework guiding sports coaching research and presents a new conceptualization for research in the field. Through mapping and contextualizing sports coaching research within a corporatized higher education, the dominant or legitimate forms of sports coaching knowledge are problematized and a new vision of the field, which is […]
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Sports In Society: Issues and Controversies (13th Edition)
For over 30 years, Sports in Society has been a resource in the cultural, interactional, and structural dimensions of sports. The Thirteenth Edition provides a thorough introduction to the sociology of sport by raising critical questions to explore the relationships between sports, culture, and society. This text takes an issues-oriented approach to the study of […]
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Sports Nutrition: A Handbook for Professionals (6th Edition)
The sixth edition of Sports Nutrition, a long-standing, renowned reference, offers timely research and evidence-based advice for health professionals working with athletes at all levels. Written and reviewed by esteemed sports registered dietitian nutritionists (RDNs) and other exercise experts, this edition incorporates theoretical and practical information and key takeaways designed for easy implementation in daily […]
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Teaching Personal and Social Responsibility Through Physical Activity (3rd Edition)
Teaching Personal and Social Responsibility Through Physical Activity, now entering its third edition, attests to author Don Hellison’s ability to shape and develop character and responsibility in children. Perhaps the success of Hellison’s book can be attributed to his status not only as a highly respected scholar-activist but as a teacher who worked in the […]
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The Athletic Revolution
Protests current trends in athletics, particularly at the university level, and suggests ways of humanizing sports events
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The Ethics of Coaching Sports: Moral, Social and Legal Issues
The Ethics of Coaching Sports features invited contributions written by prominent scholars examining a broad range of normative or evaluative issues that arise from the role of the coach in competitive sports. The collection is accessible and comprehensive, including discussion of concrete issues in coaching, such as the distribution of playing time, bullying, the implications […]
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The New Plantation: Black Athletes, College Sports and Predominantly White NCAA Institutions
The New Plantation examines the controversial relationship between predominantly White NCAA Division I Institutions (PWI s) and black athletes, utilizing an internal colonial model. It provides a much-needed in-depth analysis to fully comprehend the magnitude of the forces at work that impact black athletes experiences at PWI s. Hawkins provides a conceptual framework for understanding […]
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The Olympic Games and Cultural Policy
This book explores how cultural policies are reflected in the design, management and promotion of the Olympic Games. Garcia examines the concept and evolution of cultural policies throughout the recent history of the Olympic Games and then specifically evaluates the cultural program of the Sydney 2000 Olympic Games. She argues that the cultural relevance of […]
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The Smartest Kids In The World and How They Got That Way
A New York Times bestseller, The Smartest Kids was published in 15 countries and chosen by The Economist, The New York Times, The Washington Post and Amazon as one of the most notable books of the year. In a handful of nations, virtually all children are learning to make complex arguments and solve problems. They […]
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The Surprisingly Short History of Hetrosexuality.
Like the typewriter and the light bulb, the heterosexual was invented in the 1860s and swiftly transformed Western culture. The idea of “the heterosexual” was unprecedented. After all, men and women had been having sex, marrying, building families, and sometimes even falling in love for millennia without having any special name for their emotions or […]
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Motor Learning and Control: Concepts and Applications
Motor Learning and Control: Concepts and Applications, 12e, is an introduction to the study of motor learning and control for students who aspire to become practitioners in exercise science, physical education, and other movement-oriented professions. Each chapter presents motor learning and control as a set of principles and guidelines based on research evidence. The authors’ […]
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Motor Learning and Performance: From Principles to Application (6th Edition)
Motor Learning and Performance: From Principles to Application, Sixth Edition With Web Study Guide, enables students to appreciate high-level skilled activity and understand how such incredible performances occur. Written in a style that is accessible even to students with little or no knowledge of physiology, psychology, statistical methods, or other basic sciences, this text constructs […]
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Muslim Women and Sport
Examining the global experiences, challenges and achievements of Muslim women participating in physical activities and sport, this important new study makes a profound contribution to our understanding of both contemporary Islam and the complexity and diversity of women’s lives in the modern world. The book presents an overview of current research into constructs of gender, […]
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NSCAs Essentials of Tactical Strength and Conditioning
The physical demands of tactical professions such as military, law enforcement, and fire and rescue require those workers to be in top physical condition to perform their jobs well and decrease the risk of injury. NSCA’s Essentials of Tactical Strength and Conditioning contains scientific information to assist in implementing or restructuring strength and conditioning programs […]
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Olympic Weightlifting: A Complete Guide for Athletes and Coaches
Olympic Weightlifting is a comprehensive guide to learning and instructing the Olympic and related lifts. Includes sections on teaching progressions, lift analyses, error correction, programming, competition, supplemental exercises, warm-up protocols, nutrition, and sample training programs. “Simply the best book available on Olympic weightlifting.” Don Weideman, Vice President, Pacific Weightlifting Association “Without a doubt the best […]
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Out of Bounds: When Scholarship Athletes Become Academic Scholars
Out of Bounds explores the trajectories and challenges of exceptional men and women athletes who later became outstanding academic scholars. The book reports findings from participatory, qualitative research, and problematizes ways we have come to think about the separation and integration of athletic and academic practices – embodied in both institutions and individuals, and reflected […]
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Physiological Aspects of Sport Training and Performance, (2nd Edition)
Physiological Aspects of Sport Training and Performance, Second Edition With Web Resource, updates and expands on the popular first edition, providing an in-depth discussion of physiological adaptation to exercise. Students will learn the importance of an evidence-based approach in prescribing exercise, while sports medicine professionals and health care providers will appreciate using the text as […]
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Play and the Human Condition
In Play and the Human Condition, Thomas Henricks brings together ways of considering play to probe its essential relationship to work, ritual, and communitas. Focusing on five contexts for play–the psyche, the body, the environment, society, and culture–Henricks identifies conditions that instigate play, and comments on its implications for those settings. Offering a general theory […]
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Playing for God: Evangelical Women and the Unintended Consequences of Sports Ministry.
When sports ministry first emerged in the 1950s and 1960s, its founders imagined male celebrity athletes as powerful salespeople who could deliver a message of Christian strength: “If athletes can endorse shaving cream, razor blades, and cigarettes, surely they can endorse the Lord, too,” reasoned Fellowship of Christian Athletes founder Don McClanen. But combining evangelicalism […]
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Positive Youth Development Through Sport (2nd edition)
Cutting through the political rhetoric about the power of sport as a tool for social change and personal improvement, this book offers insight into how and why participating in sport can be good for children and young people. As the first text to focus on the role of sport in positive youth development (PYD), it […]
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Powerlifting: The Complete Guide to Technique, Training, and Competition
The mental and physical demands of powerlifting are unlike any other sport. Athletes must be committed and focused on success. In Powerlifting, Second Edition,powerlifting hall of famer Dan Austin, winner of 10 world powerlifting championships and 18 national championships, teams with strength and conditioning expert Dr. Bryan Mann to offer the most comprehensive powerlifting resource […]
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Principles of Sport Administration
Athletic program administrators have a tremendous influence on the success of their organisations. They must construct viable program plans; oversee budgeting, marketing, and fund-raising efforts; and effectively manage employees. These concepts and many more are covered in this book , an indispensable guide by Richard Leonard for any aspiring athletic program administrator or coach. Chapters […]
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Publication Manual of The American Psychological Association (7th Edition)
The new 2020 copyright release of the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association, Seventh Edition Includes three different formats — spiral and tabbed, paperback, and hardcover, all of which are full-color. It is the official source for APA Style. With millions of copies sold worldwide in multiple languages, it is the style manual of […]
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Qualitative Diagnosis of Human Movement (3rd Edition)
Qualitative Diagnosis of Human Movement, Third Edition With Web Resource, focuses on the processes behind movement observation, assessment, and diagnosis, emphasizing how to recognize and correct errors in human movement. This unique text teaches anyone working in human movement–related professions how to integrate and apply knowledge from the fields of kinesiology, allied health, and engineering […]
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Race, Racism and Sports Journalism
Beginning with a theoretical discussion of race, sport and media, this book critically examines issues of race, racism and sports journalism and offers practical advice on sports reporting, including a discussion of guidelines for ethical journalism. In a series of case studies, representations of race will be explored through historical and contemporary analysis of international […]
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Racial Formation in the Twenty-First Century
Michael Omi and Howard Winant’s Racial Formation in the United States remains one of the most influential books and widely read books about race. Racial Formation in the 21st Century, arriving twenty-five years after the publication of Omi and Winant’s influential work, brings together fourteen essays by leading scholars in law, history, sociology, ethnic studies, […]
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Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World
Plenty of experts argue that anyone who wants to develop a skill, play an instrument, or lead their field should start early, focus intensely, and rack up as many hours of deliberate practice as possible. If you dabble or delay, you’ll never catch up to the people who got a head start. But a closer […]
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Reading Statistics and Research (6th Edition)
Employing a non-intimidating writing style that emphasizes concepts rather than formulas, this uniquely welcoming text shows consumers of research how to read, understand, and critically evaluate the statistical information and research results contained in technical research reports. Some key topics covered in this thoroughly revised text include: descriptive statistics, correlation, reliability and validity, estimation, h […]
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Rethinking Children’s Play
Rethinking Children’s Play examines attitudes towards, and experiences of, children’s play. Fraser Brown and Michael Patte draw on a wide range of thought, research and practice from different fields and countries to debate, challenge and re-appraise long held beliefs, attitudes and ways of working and living with children in the play environment. Children need to […]
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Routledge Handbook of Youth Sport
The Routledge Handbook of Youth Sport is a comprehensive survey of the latest research into young people’s involvement in sport. Drawing on a wide diversity of disciplines, including sociology, psychology, policy studies, coaching, physical education and physiology, the book examines the importance of sport during a key transitional period of our lives, from the later […]
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Drug Games: The International Olympic Committee and the Politics of Doping, 1960-2008
On August 26, 1960, twenty-three-year-old Danish cyclist Knud Jensen, competing in that year’s Rome Olympic Games, suddenly fell from his bike and fractured his skull. His death hours later led to rumors that performance-enhancing drugs were in his system. Though certainly not the first instance of doping in the Olympic Games, Jensen’s death serves as […]
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Essentials of Strength and Conditioning
Developed by the National Strength and Conditioning Association (NSCA) and now in its fourth edition, Essentials of Strength Training and Conditioning is the essential text for strength and conditioning professionals and students. This comprehensive resource, created by 30 expert contributors in the field, explains the key theories, concepts, and scientific principles of strength training and […]
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Exclusionary Power in Sports Organisations: The Merger Between the Women’s Cricket Association and the England and Wales Cricket
Exercise Psychology, Second Edition, addresses the psychological and biological consequences of exercise and physical activity and their subsequent effects on mood and mental health. Like the first edition, the text includes the latest scholarship by leading experts in the field of exercise adoption and adherence. This edition also incorporates research on lifestyle physical activity to […]
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Fighting: Intellectualizing Combat Sports
This book is the first of its kind that relates specifically to the practical and theoretical aspects of martial arts in contemporary society. Within its covers are a collection of thirty-five cutting-edge chapters by leading practitioners and academics who raise questions and provide answers regarding the broad relationship between fighting and the intellectualisation of the […]
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Football Comes Home: Symbolic Identities in European Football
Football Comes Home unearths the cultural, political, and social properties of European football clubs and associations. Christos Kassimeris examines the background of five hundred football clubs and associations from around Europe, providing all the relevant historical information that concerns their origins and standing in society. This book also analyzes the clubs’ and associations’ emblems, revealing […]
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Foucault, Sport, and Exercise: Power, Knowledge, and Transforming the Self
Michel Foucault’s work profoundly influences the way we think about society, in particular how we understand social power, the self, and the body. This book gives an innovative and entirely new analysis of is later works making it a one-stop guide for students, exploring how Foucauldian theory can inform our understanding of the body, domination, […]
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Foundations of Kinesiology
Each new print copy includes Navigate Advantage Access that unlocks a comprehensive and interactive eBook, student practice activities and assessments, a full suite of instructor resources, and learning analytics reporting tools. Foundations of Kinesiology, Second Edition provides a guided introduction to the discipline and professions of kinesiology using a holistic, learner-centered, and skill-based approach. Thoroughly […]
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Foundations of Physical Education, Exercise Science, and Sport
Foundations of Physical Education, Exercise Science, and Sport provides readers with the most up-to-date information about physical activity, physical education, and sport, while recognizing that this dynamic field and its disciplines are ever changing in our fast-paced, technology-driven society. It challenges students to commit to ongoing development and growth as professionals from the very beginning […]
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Foundations of Sport and Exercise Psychology
The leading textbook in sport and exercise psychology is back in a revised seventh edition, and it again raises the bar with its engaging introduction to the field. Foundations of Sport and Exercise Psychology, Seventh Edition With Web Study Guide, offers both students and new practitioners a comprehensive view of sport and exercise psychology, drawing […]
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Generation Z Unfiltered: Facing Nine Hidden Challenges of the Most Anxious Population
This generation of students who have grown up in the 21st century are the most social, the most empowered, and also the most anxious youth population in human history. If you are struggling to connect with and lead them, you are not alone. The latest research presented in this book, however, illuminates a surprising reality: […]
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Generations: The Real Differences Between Gen Z, Millennials, Gen X, Boomers, and Silents―and What They Mean for America’s Future
A groundbreaking, revelatory portrait of the six generations that currently live in the United States and how they connect, conflict, and compete with one another—from the acclaimed author of Generation Me and iGen. The United States is currently home to six generations of people: -the Silents, born 1925–1945 -Baby Boomers, born 1946–1964 -Gen X, born […]
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God, Nimrod, and the World: Exploring Christian Perspectives on Sport Hunting
GOD, NIMROD, AND THE WORLD presents the perspectives of more than two-dozen authors on the controversial sport of hunting, surveying the relationship between the blood sport and the salvation religion of Christianity. The first half of the book provides sketches of the diverse interpretations of hunting in Hebrew and Christian cultures of the last two […]
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Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap…and Others Don’t
Over five years, the team analyzed the histories of all twenty-eight companies in the study. After sifting through mountains of data and thousands of pages of interviews, Collins and his crew discovered the key determinants of greatness — why some companies make the leap and others don’t.
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International Sports Press Survey
The International Sports Press Survey 2011 is a comparative study on the quality of sports reporting in print media. The editors, Thomas Horky and Jörg-Uwe Nieland, present an analysis of data from 22 countries and add more specific research in 14 selected country studies. The world’s largest study of its kind helps to identify similarities […]
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Introduction to Kinesiology: Studying Physical Activity
Introduction to Kinesiology: Studying Physical Activity, Sixth Edition With HKPropel Access, offers students a comprehensive overview of the field of kinesiology and explores the subdisciplinary fields of study, common career paths, and emerging ideas that are part of this dynamic and expanding discipline. This engaging, full-color introductory text stimulates curiosity about the vast field of […]
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Kicking Center
Girls and young women participate in soccer at record levels and the Women’s National Team regularly draws media, corporate, and popular attention. Yet despite increased representation and visibility, gender disparities in opportunity, compensation, training resources, and media airtime persist in soccer, and two professional leagues for women have failed since 2000. In Kicking Center, Rachel […]
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Learning in Sports Coaching: Theory and Application
The facilitation of learning is a central feature of coaches’ and coach educators’ work. Coaching students and practitioners are, as a result, being expected to give increasing levels of thought towards how they might help to develop the knowledge and practical skills of others. Learning in Sports Coaching provides a comprehensive introduction to a diverse […]
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Long-Term Athlete Development
Describes how to systematically develop sporting excellence and increase active participation in local, regional and national sport organisations. This title describes the long-term athlete development model, an approach to athlete-centered sport that combines skill instruction with long-term planning and an understanding of human development.
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Manual of Structural Kinesiology (19th Edition)
Manual of Structural Kinesiology, 21st edition, provides a straightforward view of human anatomy and its relation to movement. While the manual is designed for use in undergraduate structural kinesiology courses, other clinicians and educators will also benefit from the text. The manual clearly identifies specific muscles and muscle groups and describes exercises for strengthening and […]
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Midnight Basketball: Race, Sports, and Neoliberal Social Policy
Midnight basketball may not have been invented in Chicago, but the City of Big Shoulders—home of Michael Jordan and the Bulls—is where it first came to national prominence. And it’s also where Douglas Hartmann first began to think seriously about the audacious notion that organizing young men to run around in the wee hours of […]
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Where Will It End: Enhancement-lympics?
The Paralympics seems to define itself as representing the below species-typical, impaired people and the Olympics are the species-typical although on the upper end of the bell curve (see my blog To define oneself as less able). In this the Paralympics follows the prevailing meaning of health which is benchmarked to the normal or species-typical […]
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Why Do Kids Play Video Games?
Earlier this week I received a call from a writer for CBC who wanted to get insight from my interaction with coaches across Canada regarding the impact of Fortnite and other video games on the grassroots level of youth sports. The subject comes up literally every time I do a presentation or connect with coaches […]
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Why Every U.S. Athlete Came Home a Winner
American athletes were very successful at the London 2012 Olympic Games, bringing home 46 Gold Medals. But what most viewers did not realize was that every single one of the 529 athletes representing Team USA brought home gold – along with thousands of dollars’ worth of other freebies.
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Why Gender Equality Stalled
This week is the 50th anniversary of the publication of Betty Friedan’s international best seller, “The Feminine Mystique,” which has been widely credited with igniting the women’s movement of the 1960s. Readers who return to this feminist classic today are often puzzled by the absence of concrete political proposals to change the status of women. […]
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Why Genes Aren’t Destiny
Norrbotten is so isolated that in the 19th century, if the harvest was bad, people starved. The starving years were all the crueler for their unpredictability. For instance, 1800, 1812, 1821, 1836 and 1856 were years of total crop failure and extreme suffering. But in 1801, 1822, 1828, 1844 and 1863, the land spilled forth […]
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Why We Ignore Women’s Sports
Women’s cycling is neglected throughout the year. But every Olympic season, our interest in most women’s sports peaks—only to quickly wane. With Americans set to compete for gold in London and new races on the horizon, is it finally women’s cycling time?
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Winner’s Curse? The Economics of Hosting the Olympic Games
Organizers of the London Olympics are feeling the heat for the sudden cost overruns on their already inflated $14.7 billion official budget, particularly now that government figures show Britain is still mired in recession despite all the recent Olympic spending.But those who follow Olympic spending closely say the Brits are actually doing a number of […]
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With the Words ‘I’m Gay,’ an N.B.A. Center Breaks a Barrier
In 12 seasons as an N.B.A. player, Jason Collins has never been an All-Star or a scoring leader or even a full-time starter, but on Monday he shattered one of the last great barriers in professional sports. ”I’m a 34-year-old N.B.A. center. I’m black and I’m gay,” Collins, who finished this season with the Washington […]
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Women in Intercollegiate Sport: A Longitudinal, National Study Thirty-Five Year Update
Overview on findings from women in intercollegiate sport. Findings include participation opportunities for female athletes, status of women head coaches, status of women as assistant coaches, status of women as sports information directors, status of women as athletic trainers, and status of women as administrators.
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Women’s Basketball Needs to Work to Earn an Audience
If your TV clicker skipped right past a WNBA game, one reason may have been that you mistook it for rugby — unless you figured it for dodgeball. Fact: Women’s basketball is a beautiful game surrounded by ugly atrocities, from incompetent officiating to fiscal mismanagement. Is it too much to ask for decent referees who […]
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Youth Leagues the New Target of High School Football Programs
Youth football leagues are Colorado’s modern gold mines, where young, impressionable players are discovered. Both public and private schools have long scouted these leagues, but it’s the draw of the private schools that has changed the recruiting game in metro Denver. “There’s been a drastic change in how much the private schools have gone to […]
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Youth Sports Still Struggling with Dropping Participation, High Costs and Bad Coaches, Study Finds
More American children ages 6 to 12 were physically active in 2017, but not to a healthy level, according to data published Tuesday by the Sports & Fitness Industry Association and the Aspen Institute. Youth sports advocates have for years pushed kids to play more team sports, and those efforts showed some success over the […]
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Youth Sports Study: Declining Participation, Rising Costs and Unqualified Coaches
Between skyrocketing costs, sport specialization and coaches needing training, youth sports is in the midst of a crisis, according to new data published Wednesday by the Sports & Fitness Industry Association and the Aspen Institute.Athletic participation for kids ages 6 through 12 is down almost 8 percent over the last decade, according to SFIA and […]
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Author Says Bias is Inevitable, But It Can be Faced, Uprooted.
Tuesday, Starbucks will close more than 8,000 stores in the USA to conduct employee training “to address implicit bias” and “prevent discrimination” after two black men were arrested at a Philadelphia store in April.
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Boy on Ice: The Life and Death of Derek Boogaard
The tragic death of hockey star Derek Boogaard at twenty-eight was front-page news across the country in 2011 and helped shatter the silence about violence and concussions in professional sports. Now, in a gripping work of narrative nonfiction, acclaimed reporter John Branch tells the shocking story of Boogaard’s life and heartbreaking death. Boy on Ice […]
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Brainstorm: The Flaws In The Science of Sex Differences
Female and male brains are different, thanks to hormones coursing through the brain before birth. That’s taught as fact in psychology textbooks, academic journals, and bestselling books. And these hardwired differences explain everything from sexual orientation to gender identity, to why there aren’t more women physicists or more stay-at-home dads. In this compelling book, Rebecca […]
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Celebration Capitalism and the Olympic Games
The Olympic Games have become the world’s greatest media and marketing event–a global celebration of exceptional athletics gilded with corporate cash. Huge corporations vie for association with the “Olympic Image” in the hope of gaining a worldwide marketing audience of billions. In this provocative critical study of the contemporary Olympics, Jules Boykoff argues that the […]
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Disability Sport: A Vehicle for Social Change?
This book contains a selection of papers presented at the “Disability sport: a vehicle for social change?” conference hosted by the Centre for Peace and Reconciliation Studies (CPRS) at Coventry University from 23rd – 25th August 2012. The brainchild of conference organiser Dr Ian Brittain, the conference brought together around forty academics and practitioners in […]
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Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison
In this indispensable work, a brilliant thinker suggests that such vaunted reforms as the abolition of torture and the emergence of the modern penitentiary have merely shifted the focus of punishment from the prisoner’s body to his soul.
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Diversity in Sport Organizations
Diversity in Sport Organizations provides readers with a comprehensive understanding of the ways in which people differ – including race, sex, age, mental and physical ability, appearance, religion, sexual orientation, and social class – and how these differences can influence sport organizations. It offers specific strategies for managing diversity in work and sport environments, provides […]
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To Stop Cheats, Colleges Learn Their Trickery
The frontier in the battle to defeat student cheating may be here at the testing center of the University of Central Florida. No gum is allowed during an exam: chewing could disguise a student’s speaking into a hands-free cell phone to an accomplice outside.
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Too High a Price To Play
It was the unwritten story of the 2011 Women’s World Cup, which had just about every other angle covered, so captivating was the U.S. national team, so pulse-raising its comebacks and penalty kicks, so compelling the ponytailed ambassadors of our culture and values.
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UFC’s Rashad Evans Comes Out for Gay Marriage
“This isn’t a sex issue, it’s a love issue,” the former light-heavyweight champion tells Outsports about why he is petitioning the U.S. Supreme Court to approve same-sex marriages.
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UK Sport Rio 2016 Funding Defended by Sports Minister
A record £347m will be available for the four-year cycle to Rio, an 11% increase on funding for London 2012. But basketball, handball, table tennis and wrestling will receive no money. “The money has been distributed extremely fairly. UK Sport went into these budgets in considerable detail,” Robertson told Sportsweek on 5 live. “It’s a […]
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Ultimate Fighting Dips a Toe Into the Mainstream
Researchers have identified some demands of Canadian National Hockey League (NHL) players, yet there is little direction for players hoping to reach the lucrative league. The objectives of this study were to identify the stages, statuses and demands in Canadian NHL players’ careers and propose an empirical career model of Canadian NHL players. In total, […]
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Unfriendly Confines: The Unsung History of America’s Low-key Hooliganism
Don’t let all of the mascots, cheerleaders, Kiss Cams and marriage proposals give you the wrong idea: US sports stadiums are often as dangerous as European ones.
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United States Tops Olympic Medal List But is Third to China and Russia In Bonus Payouts
I wrote recently about the rich medal bonuses that the Olympics’ top athletes stand to earn for their performances, and I noted that the United States’ medal bonuses – $25,000 for gold, $15,000 for silver and $10,000 for bronze – are well below those handed out by nations like Russia and Italy. But maybe the […]
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University of Texas Professor Explores Cultural Phenomenon of Doping
An expert on sports doping living in Austin wants to help guide cycling’s future and it’s not the guy who raced a bike for a living.
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US Olympic Medal Winners Get Bonuses and Tax Bill
With many countries in the world facing financial difficulties, there is greater focus on how much money governments are spending on Olympic athletes or Olympic-related events.
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Valor Christian Rockets to Success and Gains Its Share of Detractors
Sun rays pierced the fluffy clouds on a late August afternoon, illuminating Valor Christian High School with a seemingly biblical incandescence. Game night. Tailgate. A lively live band. Faces painted with Valor V’s, others with crosses. Parents in the school’s official Nike apparel mingled outside the freshly minted stadium, surrounded by scurrying 5-year-old kids, all […]
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Vancouver Not Typical Sports Riot, Sociologist Says
Riots following big sporting events have become predictable. They happen about half the time following a championship game or series, the experts say. What’s more, sports riots are now the most common type of riot in North America. But they are usually celebratory sports riots. What makes Vancouver stand out, both in 2011 and 1994, […]
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Verbal Abuse From parents, Coaches is Causing a Referee Shortage in Youth Sports
Warren Graver raised the whistle to his lips midway through the second half, bracing to shift his focus from the sideline hysterics to the girls’ soccer game at hand three years ago.
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Violence is Deeply Rooted in American Culture: An Interview with Henry A. Giroux
America’s fascination with guns is turning into an ever growing nightmare, with the latest carnage taking place last month at Sandy Hill Elementary School in Newtown Connecticut where 20 young children and six educators were killed. Yet, there is no evidence that the US is any closer to joining the rest of the civilized nations […]
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Wall Street, Penn State and Institutional Corruption
What makes institutions corrupt? Up host Chris Hayes and his panelists examine two examples from this week: Wall Street and the Penn State scandal.
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Want to Get Your Kids Into College? Let Them Play
Every day where we work, we see our young students struggling with the transition from home to school. They’re all wonderful kids, but some can’t share easily or listen in a group. Some have impulse control problems and have trouble keeping their hands to themselves; others don’t always see that actions have consequences; a few […]
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We Must Provide Equal Opportunity in Sports to Students with Disabilities
Playing sports at any level–club, intramural, or interscholastic-can be a key part of the school experience and have an immense and lasting impact on a student’s life. Among its many benefits, participation in extracurricular athletic activities promotes socialization, the development of leadership skills, focus, and, of course, physical fitness. It’s no secret that sports helped […]
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What is a Woman?
On May 24th, a few dozen people gathered in a conference room at the Central Library, a century-old Georgian Revival building in downtown Portland, Oregon, for an event called Radfems Respond. The conference had been convened by a group that wanted to defend two positions that have made radical feminism anathema to much of the […]
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What It Means to Be ‘Black in Latin America’
Between 1502 and 1866, 11.2 million Africans disembarked from slave ships in the New World during the Middle Passage. Of those 11.2 million people, only 450,000 came to the United States. The rest of the African slaves who survived the journey were taken to the Caribbean, Latin America and South America.
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What Would the End of Football Look Like? An Economic Perspective on CTE and the Concussion Crisis
The NFL is done for the year, but it is not pure fantasy to suggest that it may be done for good in the not-too-distant future. How might such a doomsday scenario play out and what would be the economic and social consequences?
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Where College Football is a Religion, and Religion Shapes College Football
Hugh Freeze takes his seat near the back of the Mississippi football meeting room, and from here, with his three daughters sitting to his left, the Rebels coach can see everything.
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The Games Warriors Play
Maasai villages devised a test of traditional skills to promote an alternative to lion hunting.
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The Good Men: Inside The All-male Group Taking on Modern Masculinity
In the hometown of Jordan Peterson, the evangelist of white male resentment, a different and thoughtful men’s movement vies to be heard. On a warm Tuesday evening, a dozen men gathered on couches at a Lululemon location in Toronto called The Local. Since last year, as an experiment to reach more male customers, the store […]
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The Hidden Officiating Crisis: How the NFL’s Problems Trickle Down to Youth Sports
Mistakes and minute scrutiny on the biggest stage, and the criticisms that follow from coaches, the media and fans, reverberate down to the lower levels. Spectators are further emboldened to go after already beleaguered refs in youth sports—driving many of them away. In Florida, says one administrator, “we’re running out of officials.” Is there any […]
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The Legacy Fallacy: The Olympics Does Not Increase Sport Participation
This is an edited version of a letter sent to UK Prime Minister David Cameron and a number of other officials with connections to the London Olympics.
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The Liberating Age of Bionics
Even if progress has been inadequate, Dr. [Hugh Herr] declines to join the doubters. “Technologists, if they’re any good, are always frustrated at what seems to be the snail’s pace,” he says. Yet “there’s a technological arc that climbs upwardly with increasing slope with time” and “It’s inconceivable to me and everyone else what the […]
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