Corporate sports sponsorship is an important part of many companies’ corporate communication strategy. We take the example of major football tournaments to show that sponsorship indeed affects the sponsor’s (stock) market value. We find a statistically significant impact of football results (at an individual game level) of the seven most important football nations at European and World Champion...

IMPLEMENTATION—CHALLENGING IN ABLE-BODIED SPORT—MORE SO IN DISABILITY SPORT According to the WHO, approximately 15.6% of the world population live with some form of disability, including 70 million children world-wide aged between 15 and 18 years. The benefits of exercise for individuals living with disability have been highlighted in the literature, and participation in team sports, such as fo...

introduction: the aim of this study was to explore the relationship between genu varum abnormality and the performance and strength of lower extremity in teenage footballers. materials and methods: 60 young male football players with the mean age of 15.2± 0.78 yr, mean weight of 58.9 ± 3.39 kg and mean height of 166.6.21 cm participated in this study. kendall’s method and plumb line were used t...

Blows to the head damage the brain. American football is a contact/collision sport that produces many injuries, including to the brain. Football has many supporters who cite important redeeming characteristics of the activity. Public attention to the hazards of children and adults playing football has heightend recently due to many new scientific discoveries, not least of which is the frequency...

Developing autonomous agents for computer games is often a lengthy and expensive undertaking that requires manual encoding of detailed and complex knowledge. In this paper we show how to acquire hierarchical skills for controlling a team of simulated football players by observing video of college football play. We then demonstrate the results in the Rush 2008 football simulator, showing that th...

OBJECTIVE To test a helmetless-tackling behavioral intervention for reducing head impacts in National Collegiate Athletic Association Division I football players. DESIGN Randomized controlled clinical trial. SETTING Football field. PATIENTS OR OTHER PARTICIPANTS Fifty collegiate football players (intervention = 25, control = 25). INTERVENTION(S) The intervention group participated in a ...

OBJECTIVE To determine the relationship between exposure to repeated head impacts through tackle football prior to age 12, during a key period of brain development, and later-life executive function, memory, and estimated verbal IQ. METHODS Forty-two former National Football League (NFL) players ages 40-69 from the Diagnosing and Evaluating Traumatic Encephalopathy using Clinical Tests (DETEC...

Professional football is a contact sport with a high risk of injury. This study was designed to examine the contribution of stress and recovery variables as assessed with the Recovery-Stress Questionnaire for Athletes (RESTQ-Sport) to the risk of injury in professional football players. In a prospective, non-experimental cohort design, 22 professional football players in the highest German foot...

An investigation by questionnaire was undertaken in a group of 480 football players and 288 handball players (768 players). Of these 803 were injured, giving a player incidence of 4.1 injury/1000 football hours and 8.3 injury/1000 handball hours. The lower extremities were involved in 82% of the football injuries, whereas handball injuries were evenly distributed on both upper and lower extremi...