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    Sport psychology

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    Sport psychology is an interdisciplinary science that draws on knowledge from the fields of Kinesiology and Psychology. It involves the study of how psychological factors affect performance and how participation in sport and exercise affect psychological and physical factors. In addition to instruction and training of psychological skills for performance improvement‚ applied sport psychology may include work with athletes‚ coaches‚ and parents regarding injury‚ rehabilitation‚ communication‚ team

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    Sports and Development.

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    Sports and development. Sports is an excellent instrument‚ it have a massive power to influence people to purchase items of all type‚ it helps to collect revenues and bring people together (social movement). Sport in development has an enormous potential to create change in individuals and society abstract negative character and replace them with positive ones. Ways how sports can generate income. Sports can generate income by having competitions‚ for example the football world cup. This generate

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    Women in Sports

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    The History of Women in Sports                 Throughout history‚ women have fought for equality against men‚ significantly in the last century‚ as women have taken on greater‚ and more equal‚ roles in society. There have been several fronts on which women have fought for equality and one of those cases is in sports. Sports history is filled with men popularizing athletics such as baseball‚ basketball‚ boxing‚ football‚ track‚ and many other sports. It is quite surprising to many that women

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    Sociology of Sport

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    of Sociology of Sport is offered in the school. Many who do recognize that the class is being offered in the school may also question the value and academic merit of such a course. What people don’t see is that the world of sports is closely linked to the social world. Social attitudes are reflected in the world of sports. These attitudes can be seen in different ways such as the social atmosphere affecting sports‚ the ways in which we define sports‚ exempting the world of sports from the world of

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    Feminism In Sports

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    history of sports to be able to compete without favoritism‚ receive proper funding‚ have access to facilities to play‚ and much more obstacles. It has been up to women to organize their own sports programs rather than compete with men and their organizations. Every woman in sports has had to endure the existing issue of feminism and culture. Feminism and culture strongly affects participation in sports. Feminism in sports is the support of women’s rights based on equality to take part in sports. Culture

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    Sexism in Sports

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    Sexism in Sports Do you believe that sexism in sports is a big issue in the sports industry? Sexism in sports has become a social problem throughout the years. Throughout the history of sports‚ female athletes have struggled to gain equality with the male athletes. Female sports have faced a derogatory attitude toward their sports. According to Macionis‚ sexism is defined as “the belief that one sex is innately superior to the other” (Macionis 2010: 332). Another definition of sexism is defined

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    sports management

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    PROVISION AND MANAGEMENT OF SPORTS FACILITIES IN NIGERIA UNIVERSITIES IN THE 20TH CENTURIES ABSTRACT The most important factors of consideration in planning any sports programme is facility. Despite its importance; enough attention is not accorded to it our universities. The negligence alongside with many other factors has contributed immensely to inadequate or lack of provision and development of sports facilities in the universities. Factors such as economic situation in the country couple with

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    Rituals in Sports

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    Anthropology Final Research Paper Dec. 15‚ 2012 Sports Rituals The only reason why your team won the last game was because you wore your lucky hat‚ and the only way they will win the next game is if you wear your lucky hat again. Is it perchance by magic? Have the gods conspired to make sure your team gets to the playoffs because you wore a particular hat? Of course! It wasn’t just any hat; it was your lucky hat! Rituals in sports are very common‚ and every fan holds their own superstition

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    Sports Tourism

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    been in a Subway restaurant in Minot or a local gas station and you see a group of kids in the same sports uniform? How many times have you asked yourself‚ "What are these kids doing in town?"? Well‚ if you ’re anything like me‚ then this has happened to you several times. Did you ever think that there may be more questions to ask yourself than just "What are these kids doing in town?"? Sports Tourism is one the fastest growing industries in the world. It is also‚ however‚ one of the least talked

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    The Soviet Union didn’t achieve the same amount of success as the United States in the men’s event however they did have several noteworthy victories. The Soviet Union’s first win in the men’s event was at the 1972 Olympics when Sergey Chetverukhin won the silver medal (“Individual Men”). The 1972 Olympics was memorable for both the United States and the Soviet Union in the men’s event because for the Soviet Union it was their first win and for the United States‚ it was their first time to not place

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