Rugby is a popular contact sport worldwide. Collisions and tackles during matches and practices often lead to traumatic injuries of the shoulder. This review reports on the epidemiology of injuries, type of lesions and treatment of shoulder injuries, risk factors, such as player position, and return to sport activities. Electronic searches through PubMed (Medline), EMBASE, and Cochrane Library ...

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...

Abstract This work studies outcome uncertainty and competitive balance from a broad perspective. It considers four sports with varying scoring rates, soccer typically three goals per match to netball one hundred match. Within general modelling framework for two-competitor contest, we argue that uncertainty, the extent which of contest is unpredictable, depends on rate, strength variation score ...

The outbreak of COVID-19 in March 2020 led to a shutdown economic activities Europe. This included the sports sector since public gatherings were prohibited. German Bundesliga was among first sport leagues realizing restart without spectators. Several recent studies suggest that home advantage teams eroded for remaining matches. Our paper analyses reaction by bookmakers disappearance such advan...

As the most important of least things in world, football captures attention millions people who receive information through media every day. The role professional is not only because financial aspects sport but also powerful position broadcasters. Football, as one popular sports occupies a significant place reporting Serbia. Regardless results that Serbian players have achieved, both at club an...

Abstract Sports spectators are one of the factors that affect home advantage. The outbreak COVID-19 pandemic created unique conditions under which most leagues in world played matches without crowds for over six months. This situation facilitated an analytical comparison two different periods: before and during coronavirus pandemic. current study sought to examine advantage Israeli sport domain...

The aim of this study is to investigate the socio and cultural effects football among Students Physical Education Department at Kandahar University foot obviously has a lot symbolic significance. Because primarily played with foot, it issues identity, class, history. Due its connection "common man" masses, appeal, role in fostering liberation, risen top consciousness, transcending sport turning...

This is a descriptive, cross-sectional study describing the physiological responses during competitive matches and profile of elite exponents of an emerging martial art sport, pencak silat. Thirty exponents (21 males and 9 females) were involved in the study. Match responses (i.e. heart rate (HR) throughout match and capillary blood lactate concentration, [La], at pre-match and at the end of ev...