Background It is estimated that 21% of boys and 16% of girls in England meet recommended physical activity guidelines. Team sport has the potential to increase physical activity levels; however, studies show that gender-based factors can influence girls' participation in team sport. Furthermore, evidence for the effectiveness of interventions promoting team sport among girls is limited. This sy...

Little is known about the biopsychological underpinnings of expert performance in team sports. In this paper we show that there is a vast support for oxytocin as a neuropeptide involved in the encouragement of important processes linked to greater team performance in sport. We argue that oxytocin is related to biopsychological processes aimed at convergence of emotions and moods between people,...

BACKGROUND Neglecting to take account of the underlying context or type of physical activity (PA) that underpins overall involvement has resulted in a limited understanding of adolescents' PA participation. The purpose of the present research was to identify male and female adolescents' leisure time PA patterns and examine whether psychological processes derived from self-determination theory d...

BACKGROUND The ACTN3 gene may influence performance in team sports, in which sprint action and high-speed movements, regulated by the anaerobic energy system, are crucial to the ultimate success of a match. The aim of this study was to determine the association between the ACTN3 R577X (rs1815739) polymorphism and elite team sport athletic status in Italian male athletes. METHODS We compared t...

Ahn is with the Dept. of Sport Management, Merrimack College, North Andover, MA. Suh is with the Dept. of Sport Management, Claflin University. Lee is with the Dept. of Journalism, University of Wisconsin – Oshkosh, Oshkosh, WI. Pedersen is with the Dept. of Kinesiology, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN. Sport Fans and Their Teams’ Redesigned Logos: An Examination of the Moderating Effect of...

OR methods have been successfully applied in the evaluation of team performance. Team managers, players, fans, and journalists are often eager to know how close a team is of classification. Probabilistic and exact methods are used to tackle this question. Timetabling is the major OR application in sports. Sport leagues and teams need schedules satisfying different types of constraints and optim...

The aim of this study was to determine the reliability of a non-motorised treadmill team-sport simulation for measuring physiological responses and performance demands of team sports. Following familiarisation, 11 team-sport athletes completed a peak sprinting speed assessment followed by a 30-min team-sport simulation on the non-motorised treadmill, on three occasions, 5 days apart. Several pe...