Because of reducing the number of spectators of football premier league, this study is seeking for identifying factors put the most impact on this decline. The statistical population consisted of all spectators in Iran football premier league in 2015-16, out of which 395 spectators were randomly selected as the research samples. The data were collected via a researcher-made questionnaire. The f...

football medicine has developed in the world in recent years. afc medical committee, established the idea of football medicine travelling fellowship two years ago and provided high-level healthcare services to football players in asian countries. this is a report on my one month experience in a travelling fellowship program for football medicine which is attempting to tell the reader about the ...

Wishful thinking (WT) implies the overestimation of the likelihood of desirable events. It occurs for outcomes of personal interest, but also for events of interest to others we like. We investigated whether WT is grounded on low-level selective attention or on higher level cognitive processes including differential weighting of evidence or response formation. Participants in our MRI study pred...

All Norwegian football players are insurance covered and most of the severe injuries occurring in Norwegian football are therefore reported to the Norwegian Football Association. Based on these reports a survey of major injuries in Norwegian football in the period 1970-1974 is given. This study has already led to recommendations to the Football Association in order to reduce the number of sever...

There are a number of sports played across the world under the name football, with most of the world reserving that name for association football or soccer. Soccer is discussed in Chapter 5 of this volume, this chapter considers American football, the basic structure of which is described in the next paragraph. Most of the material in this chapter is discussed in terms of the National Football ...

I investigate the relationship between big-time college football programs and state appropriations to public institutions of higher education. Estimation of a linear reduced form model of the determination of state appropriations to higher education, using a panel of financial, athletic, and state-specific economic data from 570 public institutions of higher education at the Baccalaureate level...

The task of extracting and constructing knowledge base from news is still a subject of ongoing research. The obtained knowledge base is useful for many applications, such as a question answering system. Football news always gains enormous interest from many football fan clubs. Hence, there are needs to extract certain information from this news in timely fashion. This paper proposes a new appro...

Three adolescent football players who had ischemic stroke associated with football practice and play are described. The literature on stroke associated with childhood sports and football in particular is reviewed, and the multiple mechanisms by which football can contribute to ischemic stroke are discussed.

In American football, pass interference calls can be difficult to make, especially when the timing of contact between players is ambiguous. American football history contains many examples of controversial pass interference decisions, often with fans, players, and officials interpreting the same event differently. The current study sought to evaluate the influence of experience with concepts im...