Team sports are increasingly popular, with millions of participants worldwide. Athletes engaged in these sports are required to repeatedly produce skilful actions and maximal or near-maximal efforts (eg, accelerations, changes in pace and direction, sprints, jumps and kicks), interspersed with brief recovery intervals (consisting of rest or low-intensity to moderate-intensity activity), over an...

BACKGROUND Alternative high school (AHS) students have low levels of physical activity (PA) and high rates of overweight/obesity. Sports team participation, a specific form of PA, is associated with increased PA and decreased overweight/obesity in general adolescent populations. However, little is known about the prevalence and correlates of sports team participation among AHS students. METHO...

Purpose of Paper This article investigates components/factors that influence stakeholders’ perception of a professional sports team brand and how these components can generate brand equity for a professional sports team. Theoretical Background Utilising the work of Gladden et al. (1998) and their initial conceptual framework, the paper develops a brand equity conceptual framework applicable to ...

The scientific and expert approach to defining a model of managing the development of top-level athletes in team sports games is oriented toward the challenging values that mark a certain position and role in a team sports game. A hypothetical dynamic model of development management of top-level athletes in team sports games, which explicitly shows the order of procedures in the process of mult...

Significant criticisms have emerged on the way that collective behaviours in team sports have been traditionally evaluated. A major recommendation has been for future research and practice to focus on the interpersonal relationships developed between team players during performance. Most research has typically investigated team game performance in subunits (attack or defence), rather than consi...

Street or Public Location Industrial Site School Sports Field Unknown TEAM SPORTS [1] Baseball/Softball 5.3% 1.0% 0.0% 6.5% 67.9% 19.3% 170.5 Basketball 6.1% 2.0% * 16.0% 49.0% 26.9% 393.9 Football 6.0% 1.2% 0.0% 20.9% 49.1% 22.8% 328.0 Hockey (Field/Ice/Roller) 1.4% 1.5% 0.0% 11.8% 63.3% 22.1% 42.3 Soccer 3.0% 0.9% * 11.2% 66.7% 18.2% 160.9 Volleyball 4.1% * 0.0% 27.4% 50.0% 17.4% 44.7 T...

The aim of the present study was to examine the effect of number of sprint repetitions on the variation of blood lactate concentration (blood [La]) during different repeated-sprint sessions in order to find the appropriate number of sprint repetitions that properly simulates the physiological demands of team sport competitions. Twenty male team-sport players (age, 22.2 ± 2.9 years) performed se...

Background. It is acknowledged that aggressive behavior and bullying in sports are destructive aspects of interpersonal relationships. Objectives. The purpose of the study was to determine the prevalence of bullying and various forms of aggression in the aspects of athletes’ gender and different types of sports and to reveal links between bullying and aggression in sports settings. Methods. T...

OBJECTIVE To examine male-female differences in pediatric overuse sports injuries. STUDY DESIGN Cross-sectional epidemiological study. SETTING Tertiary level sports medicine division in a large academic pediatric medical center. PARTICIPANTS Five percent probability sample of patients 5 to 17 years seen from January 1, 2000 to December 31, 2009. About 3813 charts reviewed. Final study coh...

BACKGROUND The popularity of team sports is growing among young people. High training volume and intensity may predispose young athletes to overuse injuries. Research to date has tended to focus on acute injuries rather than overuse injuries. The purpose of this study was to examine the occurrence, nature, and severity of overuse injuries in youth basketball and floorball, with the hypothesis t...