The authors recruited 100 active and former National Football League players, representing 27 teams and all positions. Players underwent a clinical history, brain SPECT imaging, qEEG, and multiple neuropsychological measures, including MicroCog. Relative to a healthy-comparison group, players showed global decreased perfusion, especially in the prefrontal, temporal, parietal, and occipital lobe...

Our reviewer, Philip E. Stieg, a neuro-trauma consultant on the sidelines of NFL games, is no stranger to the violence of football. In his review of League of Denial by Mark Fainaru-Wada and Steve Fainaru, Stieg finds the sports-concussion crisis to be a difficult subject. Beyond the heart-wrenching stories of the players that the authors use to illustrate the impact of chronic traumatic enceph...

This paper assesses the sporting performance of Spanish professional football teams at competition level, namely, League, King’s Cup and European competitions (Champions League and UEFA Cup). Then, the gap between the result obtained by a team in a given competition and that expected according to its potential is used as a proxy of the degree of satisfaction that fans should feel: the narrower ...

The National Football league began in 1920 with 12 teams and has grown to 32 teams broken into 2 leagues and 8 divisions. In this time, a total of 14,657 games have been played [1]. Current scheduling requirements lead to a particular distribution of matchups, which when represented as an adjacency matrix should lead to a clustering representative of the league structure. In order to analyze th...

The subject of research and the purpose this paper is to determine effects globalization on identity change within one most popular sports today, football. In order avoid generalizations in analysis, English Premiership, famous football leagues, was chosen as a case study. theoretical framework related identification local changes under influence global process, predominantly social political. ...

An ordered probit regression model estimated using 15 years’ data is used to model English league football match results. As well as past match results data, the significance of the match for end-ofseason league outcomes; the involvement of the teams in cup competition; the geographical distance between the two teams’ home towns; and the average attendances of the two teams all contribute to th...

Programs aimed at preventing violence against women have increasingly adopted bystander approaches, yet large gaps remain in our knowledge about what drives bystanders to act or not, particularly in settings where there is an increased risk of violence against women occurring. This article contributes to this gap by examining data from research with professional male athletes from the Australia...

We describe the problem of scheduling the television broadcasts of the U.S. National Football League (NFL). Unlike traditional round-robin tournament scheduling, the NFL problem involves assigning games to broadcast slots under various complex constraints while attempting to satisfy a set of user preferences. As well, a mixed-initiative functionality was required to allow the user to control an...

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