BACKGROUND Depression, a disabling mental disorder, adversely affects work, sleeping and eating habits, and family. Research does not exist on depression among athletes who have recently graduated from college and retired from their sport after exhausting their collegiate eligibility. HYPOTHESIS Changes in lifestyle and loss of personal identity, which follow college athletics, would put form...

This study investigates how an Ivy League school's football season ticket holders demonstrate their attachment and allegiance to the intercollegiate athletic product through the application of stakeholder theory as a marketing-based construct. This paper merges the tenets of stakeholder theory and the theoretical constructs of attachment and allegiance initially investigated in Covell (2004) to...

The objective of this study was to compare the views of spectators concerning the quality perception of the World Indoor Athletics Championships. The study group consisted of 568 spectators who watched the events. A measurement scale of event quality in spectator sports (SEQSS) developed by Ko et al. (2011) was used as a data collection tool in the study. In order to determine the views of the ...

With the current trend in educational budget cuts it is imperative that schools are aware of ways to increase student success. A negative stigma has often been associated with being an athlete. The following study was designed to discover whether students participating in athletics tend to possess significantly different grade point averages, and unexcused absence rates, than their non-athlete ...

Caster Semenya, a South African 18-year-old, won the 800-metre track running title at the Berlin World Athletics Championships in 2009. Only 3 h later, her gender was being harshly contested. The investigation of the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) was neither discreet nor respectful of her privacy. Caster's case has implications for the ethics of sports and debates ab...

Tuition Waiver Request [2] for retirees Scholarship / Tuition Assistance [3] Plan for Dependent Children and Spouses of Eligible Retirees Retiree Parking Rate There is a parking rate for retirees (not applicable to day-rate). Arrangements must be made through Parking Services [4]. Athletic Facilities Retirees and their dependents are eligible to purchase Athletic memberships. The Athletics Recr...

As a kind of strategic resource, competitive intelligence is a kind of information activity of higher level. "Competitive intelligence" and "sports information" "sports competitive intelligence", it is a new understanding and awareness of the old "sports information" in the new period, which belongs to the "intelligence" and "competitive intelligence" the subordinate concept. In this paper, com...

Objective – Few issues in athletics today receive more attention than drug and alcohol usage, especially when it comes to college athletics. The researchers seek to correctly address self-report biases related to banned drug usage and heavy drinking. Methods – The researchers employ an experimental measurement technique. Results –Their results suggest that an overwhelmingly greater percentage o...

BACKGROUND Vigorous physical activity (VPA) declines from adolescence into adulthood, and social disparities in VPA exist. Physical activity is understudied in the college setting. METHODS VPA during high school and college was examined among 10,437 students attending 119 four-year colleges using gender-stratified logistic regression analyses. RESULTS Fewer students engaged in VPA in colleg...

Neuroimaging investigations of self-processing have generally focused on the neural correlates of explicit self-reflection. However, very little is known about the neural basis of implicit self-related processes. We utilized the concept of self-schemas to construct a two-task fMRI study that elicited both implicit and explicit self-relevant processes. The sample consisted of 18 participants who...