Although the role of IT is salient in sporting mega-events (e.g. instant replay, goal-line technology), IS research has not yet paid any attention to the processes by which technologies are selected for and implemented at these mega-events, the strategies used by actors, nor the consequences of such implementations on actors in related sectors and industries. To tackle this underdeveloped resea...

In sports competitions, teams can manipulate the result by, for instance, throwing games. We show that we can decide how to manipulate round robin and cup competitions, two of the most popular types of sporting competitions in polynomial time. In addition, we show that finding the minimal number of games that need to be thrown to manipulate the result can also be determined in polynomial time. ...

In this note statistical approaches to modelling sporting performances are discussed. Final year projects based on such modelling have proved popular in the past. With the upsurge in interest in the next Olympic Games in London in 2012, such modelling could provide teachers of statistics with a rich source of meaningful student projects. Students may be more motivated to do such projects simply...

football and basketball games have more In the United States, almost $12 billion a than doubled over the past decade (Team year is spent on the purchase of tickets to Marketing Report, 2002). sporting events (Street and Smith, 2002a). There is concern that this is creating an Teams in some of the major leagues such as economic disconnect between professional the National Basketball Association ...

The factors that impact attendance at sporting events in general and at small college sporting events in particular have been widely examined by sports marketing academicians. Among the various factors emerging over two decades has been attendance based on identity with individual teams and players, to idiosyncratic factors such as the environment and the entertainment value of the sporting eve...

We examine the economic effects of Summer and Winter Olympic Games FIFA World Cup on economies host countries. found that in short run, hosting has a significant positive announcement effect country’s equity market. Our results also revealed stock market non-G7 countries mega sporting event an insignificant G7 such events, indicating can provide additional momentum for developing or emerging ec...

BACKGROUND Large-scale, one-off sporting or physical activity (PA) events are often thought to impact population PA levels. This article reviews the evidence and explores the nature of the effect. METHODS A search of the published and grey literature was conducted to July 2005 using relevant databases, web sources, and personal contacts. Impacts are described at the individual, societal and c...

The advent of social media expands our ability to transmit information and connect with others instantly, which enables us to behave as "social sensors." Here, we studied concurrent bursty behavior of Twitter users during major sporting events to determine their function as social sensors. We show that the degree of concurrent bursts in tweets (posts) and retweets (re-posts) works as a strong i...

Perhaps more than any other medium, computer games represent the essence of convergent entertainment. At their most basic level, games combine computer technology with audio and visual media to create a form that is clearly more than the sum of its parts; a complex palimpsest that is both reactive and transitory. Superficially at least, games can look like television or cinema, and can sound li...