168 My mother, Whaea, was an articulate professional Māori woman from Te Aupouri, Te Rarawa. She had participated with distinction in team sports at school and regionally. She was also very articulate in both the English and Māori languages, with Māori being her ‘default setting’. During her professional career she had been head of the Māori Department at a secondary school for girls in Aucklan...

dream of Olympic glory, and for the few who achieve professional success there are notable financial rewards. It is perhaps unsurprising that there is a strong temptation to enhance performance pharmacologically in both professional and amateur sports, and growth hormone (GH) is well recognised as a drug of abuse. This is particularly the case among weightlifters, where it is typically used in ...

The purpose of this study was to analyse the anger expression styles, the continuous anger and personality types of players who play football in the professional league. The research group consisted of 133 soccer players who are playing in sports teams in the Turkish Super League: Ankara Sport Club, Gençlerbirliği Sports Club and Hacettepe Sports Club in the first league, Turk Telekom sports in...

Over the past thirty years, economists have become increasingly interested in the labor market for professional sports. These studies have focused primarily on exploitation, the difference between marginal revenue product and salary, or discrimination, salary differentials based on race, or ethnic background. This paper attempts to combine both areas of research. that is, to explain the systema...

The ethical aspects of sports medicine have hitherto received little scrutiny, in contrast to its legal implications, which have recently been subject to much greater discussion. However, the differences that are apparent between sports medicine and 'mainstream' areas of clinical practice can shed new light on a number of the central issues within health-care ethics. By means of hypothetical ca...

The rapid evolution of digital equipments has led to the explosive proliferation of multimedia data in education, entertainment, sport and various applications. The development of automatic or semiautomatic systems and tools for digital content analysis and understanding becomes compelling. As important multimedia content, sports video has been attracting increasing attention due to commercial ...

The authors of this text, authorities in sports medicine, have compiled one of the most all – inclusive and comprehensive books on the diagnosis and management of neurological sports injuries available. With the increased public awareness, particularly of concussion and its sequelae, parents, coaches, athletes, and physicians have an increased responsibility to be aware of the most current conc...

We analyze voting on subsidies for professional sports facilities in Harris County (Houston), Texas and Brown County (Green Bay), Wisconsin to learn more about voter preferences for these subsidies. The results differ somewhat between the two jurisdictions, as do the nature of the supports being proposed and the communities. One consistent result is that voting precincts that have a relatively ...

Since 2005, Chile’s professional soccer league has used a game-scheduling system based on an integer linear programming model. The Chilean league managers have considered several criteria for the last tournaments’ scheduling, involving operational, economic and sporting factors, thus generating a highly constrained problem, in practice unsolvable by their last methodology. This led to the adopt...