Football (or soccer, if you’re in North America) is the most widespread team sport played in the world [1]. Apart from international football, the bulk of football matches take place at the level of domestic clubs. Most countries have an established football league where clubs representing different geographical regions compete against one another. There are no restrictions on the players who m...

Successful service recovery is one of the major tasks for every provider. This paper transfers theory from traditional industries into spectator sport context, more precisely - football. A satisfied and committed consumer main goals business entity, as well football clubs. The purpose this to examine factors that predict satisfaction with its outcomes in context sports industry. research method...

OBJECTIVE The purpose of this study was to examine the drinking patterns of club and intramural college athletes and compare their alcohol consumption, perceived norms around the excessive use of alcohol, experience of negative consequences, and employment of protective strategies with those of campus varsity athletes. PARTICIPANTS A total of 442 undergraduate students attending a private, su...

BACKGROUND The sport of rock climbing has its own spectrum of injuries, almost half of which involve the wrist and hand. OBJECTIVE To examine the incidence of acute wrist and hand injuries in 545 members of The Climbers' Club of Great Britain. METHOD A total of 1100 questionnaires were sent to current members of The Climbers' Club of Great Britain for them to detail any hand and wrist injur...

The development of the sport chess in Mykolaiv begins with legendary game between Swedish king Karl XII and Ukrainian hetman Ivan Mazepa on banks Southern Bug a rest stop their route after defeat Battle Poltava 1709 (modern yacht club). was formed as center shipbuilding, where Main Headquarters Black Sea Fleet ports Russian Empire were located, its residents became shipbuilding engineers, naval...

No previous research in squash has considered the time between shots or the proximity of the ball to a wall, which are two important variables that influence shot outcomes. The aim of this paper was to analyse shot types to determine the extent to which they are played in different court areas and a more detailed analysis to determine whether the time available had an influence on the shot sele...

From 17.09.06 to 20.09.06, the Dagstuhl Seminar 06381 Computer Science in Sport was held in the International Conference and Research Center (IBFI), Schloss Dagstuhl. During the seminar, several participants presented their current research, and ongoing work and open problems were discussed. Abstracts of the presentations given during the seminar as well as abstracts of seminar results and idea...

General awareness of the potential of mathematics to support sports decision-making has been raised by the movie “Moneyball” through its portrayal of a real professional American baseball club that used mathematical tools to improve team performance. This article addresses the same challenge, using as a test case a fantasy sport game organized by an Argentinian newspaper. Two mathematical progr...