This article explores the processes associated with the emergence of rugby and soccer as distinct ‘sporting codes’ in South Africa. Beginning with an elaboration of the concept of ‘sporting code’, the author traces in broad brush the events that transformed the two English codes into new forms of cultural capital in transnational sporting fields. Set against this wider context, the focus then s...

This introductory chapter recalls the origins of this publication at the interface between the personal interest of several colleagues from different Southeast Asian countries and a growing interest in methodological innovation in the field of integrated natural resource management (INRM) in the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research. The historical development of the so-call...

From its initial inception in 1903 as a race premised on a publicity stunt to sell newspapers, the Tour de France had grown and evolved over time to become one of the most difficult and heralded sporting events in the world. Though sporting science and the Tour paralleled each other, it was not until the midlate 1980s, and especially the midlate 1990s (with the use of heart-rate monitors) that ...

Sports medicine has been receiving increased exposure in communication media for a number of reasons. First, the mass introduction of social media and smartphones has dramatically increased the impact of health-related incidents, in particular cardiac arrests, occurring during sporting events [1]. Such catastrophes are exceedingly rare, but there are countless cameras present at sporting events...

The Tendo Achilles (TA) is the strongest tendon in the body yetit is also the most frequently ruptured [1,2]. Despite this there are currently only a few epidemiological studies evaluating the events leading up to TA rupture [3-6]. Recently studies have found that the incidence of TA rupture in industrial nations is increasing [4-9]. Many find it is due to a rise in recreational sporting activi...

In addition to playing games together, making games together has offered new opportunities for social interaction and community building in online spaces. This paper presents an empirical study of how making indie games become interactive and collaborative social experiences in an Asian female-dominated online gaming community. It contributes to the CSCW community by providing a better understa...

Events discrimination and decision maker in sport field are the subject of many interesting studies in computer vision and artificial intelligence. A large volume of research has been conducted for automatic semantic event detection and summarization of sports videos. Indeed the results of these researches have a very significant contribution, as well to television broadcasts as to the football...

Events that induce stress in a large number of people in a defined area, such as earthquakes and war, have been reported to increase the incidence of myocardial infarction. In contrast, the effect of major sporting events, such as a major football (soccer) match, on cardiovascular mortality is still controversial. On one hand the emotional and mental stress, and alcohol and tobacco consumption,...