Dissertations on Sports

Sports are a combination of skill and physical activity, and can be done as either an individual or as part of a team. Sports can help you to keep fit and provide you or others with entertainment.

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Relative Age Effect in Football

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The aim of the study was to investigate the performance level at which birth date may affect selection for performance pathways in English football. The current study's findings present divergent results in comparison to preceding research that highlighted as the performance level of a player increased, so did the relative age effect....

Last modified: 12th Dec 2022

An Econometric Evaluation of Racial Biases in the Premier League

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Racism and discrimination have unfortunately played a major role in football, essentially since the creation of the sport due to social, political, and economic reasons....

Last modified: 12th Dec 2022

Impact of UEFA Prize Money on Football Clubs: Celtic Case Study

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The main research question raised in this study is how the Celtic team be promoted in the Champions league by which its popularity will rise and pump in money. As this research is a desk research, for investigating about the Celtic position, secondary data and information have been collected in the earlier section in the literature review part....

Last modified: 12th Dec 2022

Racism in Football

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An analysis of racial bias within high-profile team sports with a focus on racial discrimination in British football and the Premier League....

Last modified: 23rd Aug 2022

How Psychological Interventions and Skills can Improve Performance in Athletes

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This paper examines and analyses psychological interventions and skills that are being utilised by competitive athletes in today’s world....

Last modified: 2nd Mar 2022

Popular Feminism and Women’s Physical Empowerment in the UFC

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This chapter examines the Ultimate Fighting Championship’s (UFC) incorporation of women into their brand....

Last modified: 2nd Mar 2022

A Study of 18-24 Year Old Males’ Engagement and Interactions with Sports Betting Advertising

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This research project captures the essence of Gary Lineker’s statement and seeks to uncover how young adult males interpret and engage with betting adverts and sponsorship in the Premier League....

Last modified: 2nd Mar 2022

Athletic Identity Impact on Sport Retirement and Career Transition Struggles for Collegiate Student-Athletes

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This review will first briefly give some historical and factual perspectives on the popularity of college sports and what it means to be a student-athlete....

Last modified: 2nd Mar 2022

Empirical Analysis of Efficiency of English Premier League (EPL) Football Clubs (2005-2015)

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The aims of this study are in two folds; first to examine if any EPL club could maintain efficiency over the period (2005 – 2015) and second, to identify the most efficient club(s) within the same period using Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA)....

Last modified: 2nd Mar 2022

Effect of Sleep Behaviours on Team Sports

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The purpose of this literature review is to provide a summary of the current literature on sleep behaviours in team sport, and more specifically in Rugby League....

Last modified: 2nd Mar 2022

Effect of Power Relations in Elite Sport

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This study is based on Foucauldian discourse analysis. It looks at how power through surveillance from power figures within elite sport contributes to athletes engaging in a seemingly excessive exercise regime in their bid for success....

Last modified: 2nd Mar 2022

Mental Health Impact of Sports Injuries

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This study will look at the mental health impacts on long term injuries of sportsmen aged between 18 and 25 who compete in amateur team sports....

Last modified: 28th Feb 2022

Injury Experiences and Psychological Responses of Athletes as a result of Sports Injuries

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The aim of this study was to further explore the phenomenon of sports injuries, five university students were interviewed regarding their injury experiences, in particular the psychological responses they had when their injury had occurred....

Last modified: 25th Feb 2022

Glutamine Supplementation in Athletic Performance, Body Composition and Immune Function

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This study was conducted to evaluate the effect of GLN supplement on athletic performance, body composition and immune function....

Last modified: 24th Feb 2022

Musculoskeletal Loads during Stationary Cycling: Effects of Pedal Modifications for Knee Osteoarthritis

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The long-term goal of this research is to provide a scientific basis for planning, evaluation and improvement of subject-specific rehabilitation for subjects with knee osteoarthritis (OA)....

Last modified: 17th Feb 2022

Wimbledon Marketing Strategies Evaluation

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This report will explore and assess the marketing strategies of the tennis event, Wimbledon, specifically 2017 event....

Last modified: 26th Jan 2022

Financial Analysis of Chinese Football Clubs

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At present, the vast majority of the clubs are still using private ownership (i.e. capital investment) model, investors basically are from China, with both of state-owned enterprises and private enterprises sponsors soccer clubs....

Last modified: 25th Jan 2022

Sport, the Media and National Identities

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Whilst some are seen as central elements of national cultures (e.g. baseball in the US, soccer in Brazil or England, and rugby union in New Zealand) other sports are marginal to senses of nations....

Last modified: 6th Jan 2022

Analysis of NBA Player Performance, Popularity and Salary

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This paper aims at finding relations to NBA player’s salary with their performance along with their twitter follower by analysing the linear regression, PCA, SVM and Decision Tree technique....

Last modified: 5th Jan 2022

Analysis of the Final Third Entries and Entries into the Penalty Area as a Performance Indicator in Football

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In this literature review, apart from the final third and penalty area entries other factors associated within the two performance indicators and other factors affecting performance will be covered....

Last modified: 23rd Dec 2021

Sociological Reasons for Sports Participation: A Bourdieusian Approach

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This study will draw on the work of Pierre Bourdieu and will explore the sociological factors that influence young people’s participation in physical activity....

Last modified: 15th Dec 2021

The Use of Enhancement Drugs in Professional Sports

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The use of banned drugs in the field of sports is regarded as doping. This study explores the use of drugs as well as the types of punishments imposed to curb doping in sport....

Last modified: 15th Dec 2021

Effect of Prior Head Impacts on Neurocognitive Performance in Youth Athletes

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This paper determined the effect of prior subconcussive and concussive impacts on neurocognitive performance in youth athletes by reviewing current literature....

Last modified: 11th Nov 2021

Effectiveness of Creatine on Athletes

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This study aims at carrying out extensive research from different peer-reviewed journals to identify the effectiveness of creatine on athletes....

Last modified: 1st Nov 2021

Fitness Testing for the Assessment of Basketball Athletes

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This article strives to provide strength and conditioning professionals with evidence-based information to effectively implement a testing battery specifically for the sport of basketball....

Last modified: 24th Aug 2021