Sports category: 37872 books
Public Policy and Professional Sports
International and Australian Experiences
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
This volume provides a comprehensive examination of public policy aspects of the economics of professional sports. The book offers a unique focus on public policy, covering regulation and competition in the sports industry and its labour markets, governance issues including unethical behaviour (corruption,...
How to Play the Game
What Every Sports Attorney Needs to Know
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2019
How to Play the Game, by Miami-based attorney and sports agent Darren Heitner, is the go-to source for anyone interested in getting into the field of sports law. It discusses the laws that govern the sports industry, from contract drafting and negotiation to antitrust issues, intellectual property...
Sport Development in the United States
High Performance and Mass Participation
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2014
The development of both elite, high performance sport and mass participation, grassroots-level sport are central concerns for governments and sports governing bodies. This important new study is the first to closely examine the challenges and opportunities for sports development in the United States,...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2015
Coaching adventure sports is part of the core work of many adventure educators but has been largely neglected in the adventure studies literature. This is the first book to link contemporary sports coaching science with adventure sports practice. It examines the unique set of challenges faced by adventure...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2013
As sport has become more professionalised over the last thirty years, so the role of nutrition in promoting health and performance has become ever more important to athletes who search for the extra edge to succeed in their respective sports. With the expansion in the provision of medical and scientific...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2008
Science and Racket Sports IV presents a selection of important contemporary research into the four core racket sport disciplines of tennis, badminton, squash and table tennis. It showcases the best of the peer-reviewed papers and keynote addresses presented at the Fourth World Congress of Science...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2018
Written by a former Olympic consultant, this authoritative book examines youth sports in America today, from the organizations and companies that dominate organized youth sports to high-profile controversies ranging from burnout and out-of-control parents to the health risks of youth football.
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by Ian S. Blackshaw
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2017
This book, written by an expert in the field, covers some of the following issues, namely
high-profile WADA cases such as that of Maria Sharapova, the Bosman ruling, decisions
by the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS), and footballers’ employment contracts
and transfers for...
The Crowd Goes Wild
How to Love Sports Without Losing Your Soul
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2020
From the bestselling author and award-winning New York Times sports columnist, a timely consideration of a debate that has unsettled millions of sports fans: In the age of performance-enhancing drugs, concussion scandals, increasing on- and off-the-field violence, and other controversies, is it possible...
Youth Sports: Start Here
Everything You Need to Know About Promoting Health and Preventing Injury for Your Young Athlete
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2017
Among the estimated thirty-five million young athletes in the U.S., high school athletes account for approximately two million injuries, half a million doctor visits, and thirty thousand hospitalizations annually. And that’s just high school! Three-and-a-half million youth athletes receive medical...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2016
This book addresses the application of infrared thermography in sports, examining the main benefits of this non-invasive, non-radiating and low-cost technique. Aspects covered include the detection of injuries in sports medicine, the assessment of sports performance due to the existing link between...
Sports Injuries
Prevention, Treatment and Rehabilitation, Fourth Edition
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2016
As more and more people realize the cardiovascular, metabolic, and muscular benefits that regular physical activity provides, the risk for potential injury also increases. In order to provide successful treatment, all persons involved in the management of injury must have a thorough understanding...
That’s Gotta Hurt
The Injuries That Changed Sports Forever
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2017
In That’s Gotta Hurt, the orthopaedist David Geier shows how sports medicine has had a greater impact on the sports we watch and play than any technique or concept in coaching or training. Injuries among professional and college athletes have forced orthopaedic surgeons and other healthcare providers...
by Dr. B.S. Shinde
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2011
Sports training refers to specialized strategies and methods of exercise used in various sports to develop athletes and prepare them for performing in sporting events. Sports training is of vital importance for several fields of human activity