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Comparing traditional sports and electronic sports
Electronic sports (eSports) viewership numbers have been growing over the years. Video games such as League of Legends, Counter Strike: Global Offensive, or Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft have a large following. During the League of Legends regular season matches, 250,000 people regularly tune in …
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Intercultural Relation Between Sports and E-sports: Opening a Gateway for Sports Education /
In this thesis the application of sports education possibilities for e-sports players, based on cultural similarities between sports and e-sports is researched. The research is relevant and significant because sports education in e-sports has not been previously researched, even though cultural and …
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Talking Sports: Rhetorical Benefits Of Blogging Sports Journalism
… platforms like blogs into the world of sports journalism has forced journalists to modify their technique and approach to writing. This paper addresses that shift through examination of rhetorical theory, in-depth first-person research, and a culmination of rhetorical advantages for …
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Leadership in Sports
… dreier Versionen der Leadership Scale for Sports in Physical Education (LSS-PE) als geeignetes Instrument zur Erfassung und Untersuchung von Sportlehrerverhalten und dessen Auswirkung auf die Zufriedenheit, das Interesse und die motorischen Selbstregulationsfähigkeiten (SRF) von Schülern im …
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Televisual sports videogames
Over the three decade long history of sports videogame development, design conventions have lead to the emergence of a new sports game genre: the televisual sports videogames. These games, which usually simulate major professional or college sports, look and sound like television, and they use …
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E-sports broadcasting
In this work, I situate e-sports broadcasting within the larger sports media industrial complex, discuss e-sportscasters, and investigate the economics behind the growing e-sports industry. E-sports, often referred to as competitive or professional gaming, stands as a prime example of the merger of …
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Emotions in Sports
… Psychological behaviors have been related to sports performance and behavior in prior studies In this study, we hypothesized that higher Emotional Intelligence in collegiate athletes, the ability to perceive, understand and manage one's emotions, will be related to lower acts of delinquent …
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Posture and sports performance
… to "modify posture" and its influence on sports performance. We investigated the impact of a hand-grip device (e3 Fitness Grips, BioGrip, Sacramento, CA) designed to put the human skeleton in a "more favorable anatomical position," on 3.2-kilometer (2-mile) running performance by measuring …
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Sports and media relations: an assessment by sports journalists regarding public relations professionals of professional sports teams effectively controlling the flow of information
… if beat reporters who covered professional sports teams believed that PR professionals effectively controlled the flow of information to the media. To ascertain this answer, the researcher used in-depth interviews. The in-depth interviews were conducted with 24 members of the media who cover …
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Implicit Religion and the Highly-Identified Sports Fan: An Ethnography of Cleveland Sports Fandom
… satisfying this ongoing work, professional sports can act as a conduit of both personal and collective self understanding for highly identified fans, subsequently operating as an invisible religion within their lives. This study investigates the nature of fandom among a sample of Cleveland …
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Essays on Women in Sports
… and consequences of women’s participation in sports. Chapter 1 investigates the effect of female leadership on resource allocation within NCAA Division 1 athletics. Using novel data and a difference-in-differences model, I find that hiring a female athletic director reduces spending on women’s …
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Stress, attention and sports injury
This thesis investigated part of the Andersen and Williams (1988) model of stress and injury. Three studies were carried out. The first study examined the relationship between life stress and athletic injury. The sample consisted of 320 (234 males, 86 females) competitive contact team sport …
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Reaction Time: Sports and Religion
<p>Individuals attend to a variety of various stimuli on a daily basis and their brains decide what to attend to and what to tune out. How the brain chooses what is most important to pay attention to is decided with threat level, novelty, emotion, and other criteria. The current study looked at …
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Authentic leadership in sports teams
… identified and analyzed authentic leaders on sports teams. Group cohesion was also assessed. The purpose was to determine whether authentic leadership would lead to performance when mediated by team cohesion and trust. Survey analyses were used to assess several teams. Results indicated that …
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Origins of Some Modern Sports
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-04T21:57:08Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 0016392.pdf: 20190886 bytes, checksum: f6cefdb3d109431b818eb60ef39fd2e5 (MD5) Previous issue date: 1956
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Origins of Thirty-Three Sports
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-04T21:57:20Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 6101649.pdf: 4820738 bytes, checksum: 5ecb64cd7790d6e2abaf15bc9af423cb (MD5) Previous issue date: 1961
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Computerized scheduling of intramural sports
Thesis (B.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 1982.
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Bridging River's Edge Sports Complex
… a building through the design of a recreational sports facility. The designated site for this sports facility is the River's Edge Sports Complex located in Roanoke, Virginia. A unique setting because the Roanoke River nearly cuts through the center of this site dividing the northern half with the …
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Gender equality in sports : the gender pay gap and women's representation in Icelandic sports clubs
… if there was a gender pay gap in Icelandic sports, and if so, examine to what extent the gap was. Furthermore, the aim was to analyze how Icelandic sports clubs accomplish gender equality in their daily operations. Research methods: Two separate studies were conducted. An online …
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