Nicole Detling Miller knows honing the mental aspects of sport is a competetive advantage. Now as a "mental coach" she will be sharing those skills with US speedskaters at the 2010 Olympic Winter Games.
Challenging yourself in fitness training is good. But overdoing training is counterproductive to realizing your fitness goals, says Butler University’s Adrian Shepard, assistant director of recreation overseeing fitness. Over-training, also called over-exercising, he said, happens when you’re “not allowing your body the opportunity to adjust, adapt and recuperate in response to the training regimen you’re taking part in.”
Clarkson University honors student Emily Stefano hopes to advance skateboarding by redesigning one of its biggest and most challenging competitive structures: the MegaRamp.
To test three theories that might explain an outfielder’s ability to catch a fly ball, researcher Philip Fink, PhD, from Massey University in New Zealand and Patrick Foo, PhD, from the University of North Carolina at Ashville programmed Brown University’s virtual reality lab, the VENLab, to produce realistic balls and simulate catches. The team then lobbed virtual fly balls to a dozen experienced ball players.
Canadian Institutes of Health Research experts discuss sports and health on the eve of Super Bowl XLIV.
A new study by University of Iowa researchers finds the NFL's Rooney Rule has failed, suggesting the league would do better to focus on recruiting African-Americans into positions as entry-level position coaches if it wants to increase the number of black head coaches.
The findings of a Women’s Sports Foundation (WSF) research team led by Ithaca College faculty member Ellen Staurowsky are shedding new light on the social and physical benefits that sports programs offer to girls and women.
Gary Sailes is an Indiana U. sport sociologist whose research has tracked Tiger Woods' impact on American golf. Of Woods' current troubles, Sailes says, "If sport has taught us anything, it is that sports fans are very forgiving of their superstars."
The Tiger Woods scandal may have a lasting impact on his endorsement potential, says University of Maryland consumer psychologist Stephen McDaniel, who studies sports marketing and fan behavior. "Nike has historically been less interested in an endorser's virtue and more interested in athletic prowess, but this will not be true for other companies,” he says.
The Tiger Woods scandal may have a lasting impact on his endorsement potential, says University of Maryland consumer psychologist Stephen McDaniel, who studies sports marketing and fan behavior. "Nike has historically been less interested in an endorser's virtue and more interested in athletic prowess, but this will not be true for other companies,” he says.
A new study confirms that baseball players who sign long-term contracts do tend to have a drop-off in performance in the first year of the new deal, but that drop-off is frequently offset by improved play in subsequent years as the player starts playing for his next contract.
The PAC-10 is host to some of the country’s fiercest football rivalries. This year’s Civil War takes on epic proportions with the winner representing the PAC 10 on January 1, 2010 in Pasadena for the Rose Bowl. The Oregon “Civil War” is the 7th oldest college football rivalry in the country.
Young athletes’ achievement goals can change in a healthy way over the course of a season when their coaches create a mastery motivational climate rather than an ego orientation.
A study of 365 NCAA games in 2004-05 suggests that fans do have a great impact on games and that officials often are not objective in their efforts to be fair to both teams.
For sports fans watching their favorite team play, the greatest enjoyment comes only with a strong dollop of fear and maybe even near-despair, a new study suggests.
eStadium application allows fans sitting in the stands of an athletic event to access video replays, up-to-the-second statistics, player bios, play-by-play analysis and a wealth of other information designed to enhance the thrill of the game.
Pay attention, Shaq: Two North Carolina State University engineers have figured out the best way to shoot a free throw – a frequently underappreciated skill that gets more important as the game clock winds down.
As the Phillies face off against the New York Yankees, Temple faculty experts weigh in on economic and community impact, the psychology of winning, the role of digital media, free agency and women sportscasters.
The Phillies have transitioned from a mediocre baseball team to defending World Series Champions in the course of a decade. How did they do it?
Animation by USC and American University suggests break in curveball is a trick of the eye.
University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) communication studies Professor Larry Powell, Ph.D., has published a new book, Black Barons of Birmingham, that tells the story of the professional Negro League baseball team whose legendary members included Leroy “Satchel” Paige and Willie Mays.
The George Washington University faculty member Lisa Delpy Neirotti, associate professor of tourism and sport management, is available to comment on stories re: the 2016 Olympic Bid. She is available for on-camera interviews in the D.C.-area.
University of Arkansas professor was staff member of 1996 and 2002 Olympics and has extensive professional experience in sport PR.
According to University of Arkansas sport management professor, "The makeup of the IOC memberships is heavily skewed in favor of Europe, which may hinder Chicago's hopes."
Sports management professor Stephen Dittmore is available to comment on the reform efforts of Myles Brand as NCAA president.
The Indiana University National Sports Journalism Center today (Sept. 15) launched a new Web site that aims to be the most definitive source of news, information and commentary about sports media in America.
On September 10, the NFL kicks off its season, and this fall about 5.3 million children ages 2 to 17 will be watching football with their parents. But what are your children watching besides football? Advertisements. Christy Buchanan, an expert on parent-child relationships and a professor of psychology at Wake Forest University, can address the effect ads for alcohol and other products have on kids and how parents can handle commercial breaks that challenge family values.
Sport medicine and health experts discuss serious weight issues faced by fall sport athletes and new research into how parents pass along implicit attitudes about smoking to their kids and how the kids' attitudes can predict the onset of smoking.
The first study to examine resource allocation in Olympic sport raised questions about the mission of the U.S. Olympic Committee and revealed a gap between what administrators of U.S. National Governing Bodies thought was fair and how they believed funding would be distributed by the USOC.
Joel Stager, Indiana University exercise physiology professor, swimming expert and long-time swim coach and competitor, discusses the negative impact controversial high-tech swimsuits have on swimmers and swim programs. "Finally, the athletes are getting it into their heads that their efforts are being devalued," he says.
Liz Butterfield, a senior clinical exercise science major at Ithaca College, is the best female single-rope freestyle jump roper in America. Satellite Uplink available.
The high-powered chairman will work with athletes on the fundamentals of finance and investing, and also help the Nebraska Cornhuskers better understand their unique leadership roles in the community.
Parents who value strenuous team sports are more likely to influence their children to join a team or at least participate in some kind of exercise, and spend less time in front of the TV or computer, a new study says.
The University of North Carolina Wilmington Surf Club made history at the 2009 National Scholastic Surfing Association (NSSA)Championships with the best finish of any East Coast school in the history of the competition. The team placed second after competing in a sudden death surf-off against some of the top collegiate surfers in the nation during the competition held last week in Salt Creek, Calif.
Indiana University researchers examined swim times at Olympic Games dating back to 1972 and determined that a bias was introduced at the 2008 Games, where swim times were much faster than expected. Researchers also suggest grouping youth swimmers by single-age categories to make races more competitive and to help avoid injuries.
Mount Holyoke College professor Christopher Rivers, who translated heavyweight boxing champion Jack Johnson's memoirs in "My Life and Battles" (2007), is available to discuss efforts to pardon the late athlete for violating the Mann Act.
The answer is no, according to a study by the National College Players Association (NCPA). Released on March 26, the findings reveal estimated shortfalls between college athletes' full scholarships and the actual cost of attendance at Division I universities. ReadyCam Satellite uplink available.
LRMC (Logistic Regression Markov Chain), the computer ranking system designed by three professors at the Georgia Institute of Technology, has predicted that the NCAA Final Four basketball match ups for 2009 will be the University of North Carolina vs. the University of Pittsburgh and the University of Memphis vs. the University of Louisville.
Seven elite student-athletes with disabilities train alongside NCAA winter-sport athletes in a program that is unique to UNH, the only university in the nation that recruits and develops winter-sports student athletes with disabilities.
When the NCAA men's basketball tournament begins later this month, millions of fans across the country will be looking to follow the games, which take place mostly during the workday, on their phones, at lunch or at their desks through the streaming online video service offered by CBS, the NCAA's official network. Claire Simmers, Ph.D., professor of management at Saint Joseph's University in Philadelphia, believes that watching the games during the day can provide a challenge to employers and employees alike.
Hockey fans, players, coaches and officials can turn to a new "“ yet very old "“ source for the sport's rules, history and lore. UNH's Charles E. Holt Archives of American Hockey has scanned what may be ice hockey's earliest guidebook (loaned by the U.S. Hockey Hall of Fame) and made it publicly available on the Web for the first time ever.
"The recent admissions by Alex Rodriguez about his prior steroid abuse, and Miguel Tejada concerning his lying to congress, should not be a surprise to anyone who has paid attention to entertainment sport for the past century." Said Stephen Mosher, professor of Sport Management and Media at Ithaca College. ReadyCam Satellite Uplink available on site.
Journalists are encouraged to leverage the expertise of University of Southern California faculty as they write about issues surrounding Super Bowl XLIII including the examples below.
David Allan, Ph.D., an entertainment marketing expert, says Bruce Springsteen and the E-Street Band's slotted performance during Super Bowl XLIII's halftime show is just another example of the NFL playing it safe. "Remember when rock was risky?" asks Allan. "Well now it's the safest thing to broadcast during Super Bowl halftime, except for country."
Retiring Indianapolis Colts Head Coach Tony Dungy will be missed by fans, players and the broader Indiana community, but his departure won't detract from the team's positive brand image, a sports marketing expert at the University of Indianapolis says.
New research shows each postseason win brings anywhere from $1 million to $3.3 million, and it affects not just this year, but next year too.
October baseball is not something to which fans of the Philadelphia Phillies are well accustomed. As recently as two years ago, the sight of someone wearing a red hat emblazoned with a white "P" after the first of the month would have raised eyebrows in Philadelphia; after all, autumn is Eagles season. But after last year's playoff appearance "“ the first for the Phillies in 14 years "“ interest in the team is extending well beyond the dog days of summer.
New research from the University of Maryland shows that print media coverage of the Beijing Olympics was focused on sports rather than politics.
Three quarters of parents of young athletes let their child skip an exam for an important game, a new study conducted at the University of Haifa has found. In comparison, only 47% of parents of young musicians will agree to their child choosing a performance over an exam.
Milliseconds can mean the difference between triumph and defeat in the world of Olympic sports, leading more trainers and athletes to look toward technology as a tool to get an edge on the competition. A fluids mechanics professor at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, N.Y., is using flow measurement techniques to help American swimmers sharpen their strokes, shave seconds from their lap times, and race toward a gold medal in Beijing.
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