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Showing 1 to 20 of 33 for “"National Football League"”.
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Neuropsychological Functioning in Aging National Football League Retirees
… and sub-concussive head impacts sustained over a National Football League (NFL) career have been proposed to increase risk for later cognitive impairment. However, research is generally limited on the neuropsychological functioning among NFL retirees, and no studies to date have investigated the …
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Television viewership and rivalry in the National Football League
… significance to each match. Especially in the National Football League, the most watched league in the United States, divisional teams are considered to be in rivalrous relationships. However, relatively little attention have been paid to the rivalry effect in the television viewership, …
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Automated Force-Velocity Profiling of National Football League Athletes
Force-velocity profiles are a well-established approach to generating key parameters of an athlete’s overall fitness profile. They are currently utilized by NFL teams for their players. However, athletes run the risk of injury while testing to create these profiles since they must sprint with a …
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The efficient market hypothesis and gambling on National Football League games
… market. This investigation tests the EMH in the National Football League betting market from the 2002 to 2009 seasons. This study also examines whether there is a bias after a bye week in terms of the EMH. For this investigation we utilized a significance test for proportion and logistic …
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A Bilateral Labor Market: Salary Determinants of National Football League Quarterbacks
… employment. In the case of a quarterback for a National Football League team, the salary he commands depends on how much the team's owner expects him to contribute to the team and how unique his talents and services are. The salary of the quarterback is negotiated between the quarterback and the …
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Incorporating spatiotemporal machine learning into Major League Baseball and the National Football League
Rich data sets exist in Major League Baseball (MLB) and the National Football League (NFL) that track players and equipment (i.e. the ball) in space and time. Using machine learning and other analytical techniques, this research explores the various data sets in each sport, providing advanced …
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Experience of Media and Race in the National Football League: An Existential Phenomological Study
Over 70% percent of the current National Football League (NFL) population is of African-American descent (Lapchick, 2007). Moreover, there is a disparity between sport analyst with 74% of the radio and television announcers being White, and 12% being Black (Lapchick 2006). Thus, the purpose was to …
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Tensions Of Violence, Social Harm, And Profit: An Examination Of The National Football League
… unchartered territory within criminology. The National Football League provides a unique opportunity for scholarly exploration as the sport is predicated on violence and preserves existing systems of inequality. Stemming from the defining late modern characteristics of risk management and …
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Head and Black Assistant Coaches in the National Football League: A Comparison of Sociological Profiles
… empirically if Black assistant coaches in the National Football League (NFL) possessed the “necessary” credentials to be a head coach in the NFL. The problem was investigated by developing profiles of head White and assistant Black coaches and then comparing the credentials of the assistant …
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A COMPARISON OF THE NATIONAL FOOTBALL LEAGUE COACHES STRENGTH AND CONDITIONING PRACTICES 1997-1998 TO 2018
… the strength and conditioning practices of the National Football League’s (NFL) strength and conditioning (S&C) coaches. The primary purpose was to identify the common and unique aspects of the NFL S&C practices during 2018. A secondary purpose was to compare those results to 1997-1998 (‘97-98) …
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Understanding television demand for National Football League: factors influencing sport demand across gender and age cohorts
… of sport contests. Using the setting of National Football League (NFL) regular season games, telecast demand for each demographic group was estimated. Then comparisons of male and female television viewers, young and adult viewers, and young and older viewers were conducted. Among the …
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The Utility of Collegiate and Combine Statistics For Identifying Potential in NFL Quarterbacks
… building a successful sports franchise. In the National Football League (NFL), the annual draft is a process in which franchises select athletes that will presumably improve their teams chances of winning. Considerable resources are used to determine suitable candidates and to test those …
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The Effect of Professional Sports on Local Government
… case studies that include examples from Major League Baseball, the National Football League, and the National Basketball Association, and demonstrates the effect that each had on their local government.
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The full moon effect and the efficiency of point-spread betting in the NFL
… efficiency of point-spread betting lines of the National Football League, relative to the observed outcome of the games, using data on all regular season games between 1978 and 2007. In addition to replicating and extending the existing literature on the home-underdog bias as well, as the …
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Bloodsport and the Michael Vick Dogfighting Case: A Critical Cultural Analysis
… evidence of a dogfighting operation, the owner, National Football League star Michael Vick, became one of the most vilified figures in America for supporting a bloodsport that inflicts debilitating bodily harm on dogs. This thesis examines that case in light of the long human history of breeding …
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The Kneel for Social Justice: Colin Kaepernick, Megan Rapinoe, and The Black Lives Matter Movement
… when he did not stand for the playing of the national anthem before a National Football League preseason game to protest racist police violence. Shortly thereafter, Megan Rapinoe a female professional soccer player chose to support Kaepernick and knelt during the national anthem as well in …
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Selling the drama: A content-analysis of prescribed storylines in Abc's "Monday Night Football"
… prescribed storylines used in ABC's Monday Night Football. The sample is of five broadcasts that were recorded during the 2002 National Football League seaSon The analysis of the programs is twofold: (1) to identify the storylines set forth during the pregame show; and (2) to document each time a …
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Does Decertification Work? Outcome Analysis of the National Football Leagues Negotiated Order (1986-2008).
… order theory to explore how and why the National Football League (NFL) players have twice decertified their union and sought court intervention to challenge the legitimacy of the League's highly restrictive reserve system. An outcome-focused content analysis was designed as a preliminary …
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Measuring Grit in NFL Cornerbacks using Statistical Analysis
Using the pass play tracking data from the 2018 National Football League (NFL) season, I compiled a Grit Score that measured cornerback responses to an adverse result to a play. I calculated this Grit Score using the results of whether a cornerback allowed their opposing receiver to catch the ball …
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The internal labor market of professional football
… an internal labor market for head coaches of the National Football League (NFL). Subjects were those people who were the head coaches of NFL teams for the years 1970 to 1975 and 1980 to 1985. Following theoretical guidelines, the subjects were tested for evidence of industrial, occupational, …
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