For professional sports organizations, team names and logos represent a group’s central identity, reflecting geographic location and important attributes pertaining to strength and skill. For minority groups and women, however, team names and logos have also served as a site of oppression in the sports domain. This study examines this problem as it is apparent in team names and logos chosen to ...

Psychology and personality of individuals may have implications for choice of, and performance in sports disciplines. Individual- and group sports differ in psychological requirements, such as, competitiveness, sensation seeking and risk taking attitude, often required in sports. There is sex difference in human in these qualities, which also show association with prenatal testosterone exposure...

OBJECTIVE To investigate the longitudinal association between sports participation and parent-reported health-related quality of life (HRQOL) in children. STUDY DESIGN Cohort study that used data drawn from the Longitudinal Study of Australian Children in waves 3 (2008) and 4 (2010). Participants were a nationally representative sample of 4042 Australian children ages 8.25 (SD = 0.44) years a...

The Team Physician Consensus Statement delineates the qualifications, duties, and responsibilities of the team physician and provides guidelines to individuals and organizations in selecting team physicians. These delineations and guidelines provide a foundation for best practices in the medical care of athletes and teams. The team physician_s education, training, and experience uniquely qualif...

Multi-target tracking techniques increasingly exploit contextual information about group dynamics. However, approaches established in pedestrian tracking make assumptions about features and motion models which are often inappropriate to sports team tracking, where motion is erratic and players wear similar uniforms with frequent interplayer occlusions. On the other hand, approaches designed spe...

BACKGROUND While numerous studies have examined the relationships among correlates of physical activity (PA), less attention has been given to identifying the correlates of low PA duration. The main objective of the current study was to examine correlates of low PA duration, team sports participation and smoking behaviors among adolescents. METHODS Data from the 2005 Colorado Youth Behavioral...

The purpose of this study was to show that how the abolishment of company sports team influenced the organizational commitment in employees. In this study, Three-Component Model of Organizational Commitment (Meyer and Allen, 1997) was tested with 16 employees (10 males, 6 females) of T Company in NAGANO prefecture. The average age of the participants was 44, 50 years (SD=±0.85). And from 16 emp...