This research studied Civil War sport in the Army of the Potomac and the Army of Northern Virginia. Sport was found to be an integral part of the soldier’s style of life. This was reflected through the ways sport functioned in the lives of soldiers. Sport was used as a training technique to improve performances in training tasks. During holiday seasons sport became an opiate freeing soldiers fr...

Within the extended academic literature on strategic marketing, brand management appears to be high agenda of scholars in past seven decades. Despite continuous enquiry over these years, way which a can or should managed manner still attract academics’ and practitioners’ interest, with novel often unexpected ideas practices emerging. Among these, within sport through it remains unique area for ...

BACKGROUND The aim of this study was to update our original systematic review of return to sport rates following anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) reconstruction surgery. METHOD Electronic databases were searched from April 2010 to November 2013 for articles reporting the number of patients returning to sport following ACL reconstruction surgery. Return to sport rates, physical functioning and...

the aim of this research was to survey effective factors influencing students' orientation to different sport events in iran. after the related literature had been reviewed and past researches on these factors had been studied, the initial list of effective factors was prepared. then, these initial factors were comprehensively reviewed by marketing and sport managers and a questionnaire wa...

Psychophysiological responses of two rival sport fan groups were assessed within the context of Lang’s biphasic theory of emotion. Twenty-four participants, placed in two groups based on their identification with local sport teams, viewed 6 pictures from 6 categories: team-relevant pleasant sport, team-irrelevant sport, team-relevant unpleasant sport, erotica, household objects, and mutilation....

This text provides a synopsis, as well as some greater detail, concerning the "Canadian Sport for Life" project Long-Term Athlete Development Canada (LTAD) initiated in 2004. The genesis of the project may be found in the Canadian Sport Policy released in 2002 by Sport Canada, the sport participation and performance agency within the Canadian Heritage Ministry of the Canadian Government. The pr...

The sport literature has produced equivocal results as to whether sport participation is a protective or risk factor for disordered eating. One mechanism by which it could be a risk factor is the increased drive or compulsion to exercise. This study compared the levels of disordered eating and compulsive exercise between adolescent sport and non-sport participants. A sample of 417 male and fema...

The sport literature has produced equivocal results as to whether sport participation is a protective or risk factor for disordered eating. One mechanism by which it could be a risk factor is the increased drive or compulsion to exercise. This study compared the levels of disordered eating and compulsive exercise between adolescent sport and non-sport participants. A sample of 417 male and fema...

This study links up the theories of social psychology, economics and sport management to assess the impact of sport participation on subjective well-being (SWB) and use a simple statistic method to estimate the relative monetary value that sport participation derives SWB for Taiwan’s college students. By constructing proper measurements on sport participation and SWB respectively, a structural ...

BACKGROUND We aimed to appraise (1) the rate of return to sport of athletes after hip surgery for femoroacetabular impingement (FAI) and (2) some aspects that may influence the return to sport. METHODS Four databases (EMBASE, PubMed, Web of Science, Cochrane Library) were searched until 21 October 2014. Studies evaluated return to sport of athletes who underwent hip surgery for the treatment ...