Author: Roland Barthes Publisher: Yale University Press ISBN: 0300116047 Category : Sports & Recreation Languages : en Pages : 96
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In this elegant paperback gift edition, one of the major figures of 20th-century French literature and thought offers a poetic meditation on professional sport.
Author: Steffen Borge Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 042960212X Category : Philosophy Languages : en Pages : 298
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Human beings are the only creatures known to engage in sport. We are sporting animals, and our favourite pastime of football is the biggest sport spectacle on earth. The Philosophy of Football presents the first sustained, in-depth philosophical investigation of the phenomenon of football. In explaining the complex nature of football, the book draws on literature in sociology, history, psychology and beyond, offering real-life examples of footballing actions alongside illuminating thought experiments. The book is organized around four main themes considering the character, nature, analysis and aesthetics of football. It discusses football as an extra-ordinary, unnecessary, rule-based, competitive, skill-based physical activity, articulated as a social (as opposed to natural) kind that is fictional in character, and where fairness or fair play – contrary to much sport ethical discussion – is not centre stage. Football, it is argued, is a constructive- destructive contact sport and, in comparison to other sports, is lower scoring and more affected by chance. The latter presents to its spectators a more unpredictable game and a darker, more complex and denser drama to enjoy. The Philosophy of Football deepens our understanding of the familiar features of the game, offering novel interpretations on what football is, how and why we play it, and what the game offers its followers that makes us so eagerly await match day. This is essential reading for anybody with an interest in the world’s most popular game or in the philosophical or social study of sport.
Author: Robert C.R. Siekmann Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media ISBN: 9067048291 Category : Law Languages : en Pages : 402
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The important theme “What is Sports Law?” was the topic of the international Conference on “The Concept of Lex Sportiva Revisited”, which took place in Jakarta in late 2010. Academics and practitioners are still in debate to agree on this concept as is evident in this book. This book not only contains the worked out contributions of this Conference, but also other related chapters on the subject. It produces a reassessment of the content of Sports Law and its terminology keeping a close eye on the current literature. The book appears in the ASSER International Sports Law Series, under the editorship of Prof. Dr. Robert Siekmann, Dr. Janwillem Soek and Marco van der Harst LL.M.
Author: John O'Sullivan Publisher: Morgan James Publishing ISBN: 1614486468 Category : Sports & Recreation Languages : en Pages : 224
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The modern day youth sports environment has taken the enjoyment out of athletics for our children. Currently, 70% of kids drop out of organized sports by the age of 13, which has given rise to a generation of overweight, unhealthy young adults. There is a solution. John O’Sullivan shares the secrets of the coaches and parents who have not only raised elite athletes, but have done so by creating an environment that promotes positive core values and teaches life lessons instead of focusing on wins and losses, scholarships, and professional aspirations. Changing the Game gives adults a new paradigm and a game plan for raising happy, high performing children, and provides a national call to action to return youth sports to our kids.
Author: Vanessa Ratten Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing ISBN: 1839828382 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 132
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Sport Entrepreneurship: An Economic, Social and Sustainability Perspective is about innovation, competitiveness and futuristic thinking. This work focuses on how digital technology is driving transformations in the sport industry, enabling readers to understand the shift in sport towards integrating more entrepreneurial activity.
Author: Mitchell N. Berman Publisher: West Academic Publishing ISBN: 9781684678907 Category : Languages : en Pages : 625
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This textbook, the first of its kind, makes it easy--and fun!--to teach an exciting new course on the "jurisprudence of sport." Unlike sports law, which treats sports as objects of regulation by ordinary legal systems, this course treats sports and games as legal systems to be studied in their own right. The book is appropriate not only for law students but also for undergraduates; it offers an introduction to legal thinking but requires no background in legal doctrine. Student-friendly and deeply comparative, the text draws examples from the world's most popular team and individual sports and games (including baseball, football, soccer, tennis, golf, gymnastics, chess, boxing, and esports) and also from less widely known competitions (competitive eating, cornhole, etc.). Chapters are organized in an intuitive sports-focused manner, covering such issues as scoring systems, penalties, league structure, player eligibility and assignment, amateurism, officiating, replay review, and cheating. The jurisprudence of sport is a fast-developing field of academic study. The authors, one of them a leading figure in the field and both professors at top law schools, maintain a high degree of analytical rigor and theoretical sophistication. Icons sprinkled throughout introduce students to fundamental concepts, some law-particular (such as rules vs. standards and prices vs. sanctions) and others from cognate disciplines (such as agency costs, the Coase Theorem, and psychological biases and heuristics). Richly filled with comments, questions, and exercises, the text facilitates a large variety of pedagogical approaches and is suitable for 2- to 4-credit courses.
Author: Ed Smith Publisher: Penguin UK ISBN: 0141031859 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 174
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There is a huge category of sports fan: people who love a bloody good argument. Sport makes them think, engage and argue. Given that people already take sport so very seriously, and at such an intense level of enquiry, then Ed Smith concludes we should draw out some of sport's intellectual lessons and practical uses What Sport Teaches Us About Life gives us a rare glimpse into the world of sport as seen from an extraordinarily keen, and closely-involved observer. In one chapter Smith extols the virtues of amateurism in today's professional world; in another he explains why there'll never be another sportsman as dominant as Don Bradman. He unearths the hidden dimensions of England's 2005 Ashes win, examines the impact of the free market on cricket and football, argues that cheating is not always as clear cut as it might seem.
Author: Rob Alpha Publisher: Bookbaby ISBN: 9781631929991 Category : Sports & Recreation Languages : en Pages : 0
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My lifelong passion for human behavior and sports has led me to think a lot about why we practice and enjoy all these sports. In this book I shall explore the underlying reasons why we experience and organize sports in certain specific ways, both as spectators and as participants. Why do sports create so much individual and collective joy? Why do we have goals, rules, balls, equipment, objects to hit? Why are victories so important? Why are fields, arenas, courts, courses, similar across different sports? Apart from the obvious reasons (health, fun, competitiveness), why do we practice sports? What makes humans want to practice sports and get better? What makes us create a sport? Why have some sports become so popular? Why are professional athletes so popular? Why is the sport business so successful? Why are many of our most vivid memories linked to great sports victories? What links sports to our unconscious mind and basic reproductive and sexual behavior? How do sports tap into our deepest sources of desire, enjoyment, loyalty, passion and love? Why do sports fans evince a love of their teams that borders on the erotic? Sports originated from basic necessities of survival. By reproducing actions of hunting and fighting, humans practiced the activities that would help them survive and reproduce. For example, the practice of archery, horseback riding, running, javelin throwing and so many others, originate in the refining of survival, hunting skills and fighting techniques. Competitions between men helped (and still help) develop the physical and mental skills needed in essential activities of survival and natural selection. This form of natural training was also agreeable and enjoyable in most cases and had the advantage of decreasing the possibility of losing one's life at war or on the hunt. The essential characteristics or primitive physical activities were survival skills, practicing the skills needed for defense against natural enemies. Similarly, sports were essentially "survival games," or "natural sports" as many of the sporting activities had their source in the same basic skills necessary to thrive in a natural world in which life could be, as Hobbes observed, "nasty, brutish and short." When we look at early forms of sport used by primitive people in Western culture (European prehistory), we often see a warlike basis for many activities. "Success in sports required the mastery of the basic skills needed in war. We have traditionally considered this warlike basis of sport to be a common trait but it is not true for all primitive societies. However, even though primitive sport was not always warlike, or war oriented, it was taken seriously." (Freeman, 1997, p. 61-62). So this is the first reason that sports will always have a claim on our time and enthusiasm: it teaches us the basic physical skills that we need to survive, thrive, fight our enemies, build our communities and impose our desires and plans onto the world around us. But there is another reason we are so passionately connected to sports. We are not merely practical creatures who want nothing more than to not die! We are not satisfied to simply continue to feed ourselves, to gather resources, to biologically reproduce. We also - unlike all other animals - insist on doing so meaningfully. Sexuality, for humans, is not simply something that we do; it is something that we think about, that we represent to ourselves. It is something that speaks to us in symbolic language. So it is demonstrable, as we will see, that many of the modern sports are popular because these sports replicate and symbolize sexual behavior and express inherent sexual energy. All living organisms' basic function is to reproduce and that basic energy and desire is replicated, for humans, in myriad ways in everyday life (art, dancing, working, building, playing). Apart from all the obvious and historical reasons we practice sports, I will argue that at a deeply encrypted organic l
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