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Shifting The 'White Gaze' On Black Bodies In Philippine Collegiate Basketball: Toward A Structural Understanding Of Covert Racism In The Global South, Satwinder Singh Rehal

Social Transformations Journal of the Global South

In a postcolonial Global South context, the representation of race seems to persist and is manifested through the media scripting of Black African sporting bodies that in effect extends the deployment of the “White gaze,” the effort to explore the Black body within the context of white supremacy. Through a qualitative content analysis of media texts in the Philippines, the paper illustrates how in a postmodern context racial stereotypes literally play out within Philippine collegiate basketball framed by the “White gaze” that expresses a covert form of racism that supports an essentialist deployment of categories of race. The paper ends …

The Utah Statesman, November 30, 2020, Utah State University

The Utah Statesman

Weekly student newspaper of Utah State University in Logan

2020-November-30-Going Places, University Marketing And Communication, East Tennessee State University

ETSU News

Nicole Aldana is an academic advisor in the College of Business and Technology after holding a like position at Georgia Southern University. She holds a bachelor’s degree in international studies and Spanish from Georgia Southern.

Becky Birdwell is a temporary executive aide in the College of Graduate and Continuing Studies after serving as a contract administrator. She holds a B.S. degree in elementary education from ETSU.

Tracy Dixon is a career specialist with the Center for Community Outreach and Applied Research. Before coming to ETSU, she was an operations manager at Leon Ella Enterprises. She holds a B.A. degree in …

Emotional Intelligence And Its Relationship To The Digital Level Of The Effectiveness Of The Triple Jump For The Students Of Physical Education Faculty At Yarmouk University, Nezar Al-Luwaici

An-Najah University Journal for Research - B (Humanities)

The present study was aimed to examine level of emotional intelligence and its relationship for achievement performance of triple jump event in student's physical education faculty - Yarmouk University. Using descriptive analysis approach, (188) students registered in athletics training course at second semester 2014/2015. Wear answered the questionnaire set by Allseed and Abd AL-Samea (2002). The questionnaire consisted of (58) paragraphs distributing on five dimensions (emotional management, sympathy, emotional regulating, emotional knowledge and social communication). The results of shown that the level of emotional intelligence was high (α≤ 0.05) level of emotional intelligence was significantly higher in males than that …

The Impact Of Incentives On The Players Of First Division Clubs For Handball In Jordan, Yaser Telfah

An-Najah University Journal for Research - B (Humanities)

This study aimed to investigate the effect of psychological incentives, social, administrative, physical, health and physical on the players of first division clubs for handball in Jordan.The researcher used the descriptive approach to achieve the objectives of the study, the study sample consisted of (136)players on the players of first division clubs for handball in Jordan for a season (2016), Questionnairethat Developed by Haddad (2005)was used for data collection, The results showed that there were impact of incentives (psychological, social, administrative, physical and health) for players of first clubs for handball in Jordan in a high degree, and there is …

The Extent Of The Application Of Referees In The Jordanian Union Football To Life Skills From The Standpoint Of Professional Referees, Ahmed Batayneh, Mohammad Maqableh

An-Najah University Journal for Research - B (Humanities)

The study aimed to identify the extent of the application of referees in the jordanian union football to life skills from the standpoint of professional referees, as well as to identify the differences in views regarding the application of life skills depending on the variable (age, educational qualification), and researchers used the descriptive method and sample consisted of (35) referee of professional football and registered for the sports season (2014 - 2013), was selected purposively, where they answer a questionnaire study consisted of (33) items distributed on five areas (decision-making, problem-solving, communication, leadership spirit, self-esteem), the results of the study …

Psychological Contract Perception And Contractual Employee Performance, Robin Roberts, Stephanie Douglas Ph.D.

Publications

Contractual, short‐term employees are increasingly utilized to support organizational performance. The employee's perception of the psychological contract were explored in this qualitative study through semi‐structured interviews of 22 contractual workers. Psychological contract was fulfilled through transactional job tasks and psychological contract breaches were found in relationships with leadership and the organization. An exploratory examination from the contractual worker lens helped to influence the psychological contract on the employee performance and its use in leveraging this workforce to improve organizational performance.

The Utah Statesman, November 23, 2020, Utah State University

The Utah Statesman

Weekly student newspaper of Utah State University in Logan

Analysis The Reality Of Jordanian Olympic Sports Federations, Osama Abdul Fattah, Bashar Abdul Jawad, Ayed Zureigat, Ali Abudari

An-Najah University Journal for Research - B (Humanities)

This study aimed at analysis the reality of Jordanian Olympic sports federations for individual and collective games, The subjects used consisted of (12) president Jordanian Olympic sports federations for individual games, and (4) collective games, where it was chosen deliberate way. As well as the researchers used a closed questionnaire included (45) paragraph, and other included (29) open questionnaire. To deal with the study sample data researchers used frequencies, percentages. The study results showed the individual sports Olympic federations, has strengths, including: interest in both sexes and all the age groups when developing federation plan. as well as the participation …

Enrollment Management And Intercollegiate Athletics: A Study Of Women’S Beach Volleyball, Valerie Clem-Brown

Department of Educational Administration: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research

With college costs increasing annually and the number of high school students dropping in many areas of the country, enrollment management professionals must seek out creative strategies to appeal to a broader population of out-of-state students. This study assessed the impact of the three common faces of a holistic enrollment management plan: structural management, planning, and leadership, on the recruitment of out-of-state student-athletes to play NCAA Division I beach volleyball. Alternative explanations were explored to determine how an institution was successful in recruiting out-of-state beach volleyball student-athletes when the three common faces of a holistic enrollment management plan were not …

Hawks' Herald -- Nov. 19 , 2020, Roger Williams University

Hawk's Herald

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Getting An Internship In The Sport Industry: The Institutionalization Of Privilege, Nefertiti A. Walker, Kwame J.A. Agyemang, Marvin Washington, Lauren C. Hindman, Jeffrey Maccharles

Business Faculty Publications and Presentations

Unpaid internships are embedded in sport hegemony. These unpaid sport internships often offer fewer learning opportunities and foster an environment wherein interns feel like “second-class citizens” in their organization. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to investigate the world of unpaid internships in the sport industry by exploring students’ perspectives of them as an institutionalized practice, as well as how privilege impacts their internship experiences. Grounded in institutional theory, data from semistructured interviews with 17 sports management students were analyzed using the Gioia methodology. Three themes emerged from the findings: the idiosyncratic nature of sport internships, the legitimization of …

The Reasons Behind The Objection Of The Female Students Of The Faculty Of Sports Sciences At Mu'tah University To Practice Football Refereeing, Qasim Khaweilah, Mohammad Al-So'aidyin, Mousa Al-Maani

An-Najah University Journal for Research - B (Humanities)

This study aimed at identifying the level of reluctance among the female students of the Faculty of Sports Sciences at Mu'tah University with regard to practicing football refereeing as well as identifying the reasons why they refuse to practice it according to the study domains and identifying the differences in the reasons for which they refuse to referee football matches according to the variables of ( academic specialization, accumulative average, academic year, and the place of residence). The researchers used the descriptive approach due to its compatibility to the study nature. The study sample consisted of 100 female students from …

Daily Eastern News: November 18, 2020, Eastern Illinois University

November

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The Parthenon, November 18, 2020, Douglas Harding, Brittany Hively, Taylor Huddleston, Grant Goodrich, Meg Keller, Isabella Robinson, Denise Jackson, Zachary Hiser

The Parthenon

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Get To Know Dewayne Peevy, Depaul’S New Director Of Athletics, University Marketing And Communications, Dewayne Peevy

DePaul Download

Earlier this year DePaul University named a new director of athletics, DeWayne Peevy. Coming from the University of Kentucky, Peevy sits down with DePaul Download three months into his tenure to share more about how he’s adjusting to DePaul’s campus and the city, his “ABCs of DePaul Athletics,” and some previously unknown facts about himself.

Self-Efficacy Belief And The Influential Coach: An Examination Of Collegiate Athletes, Erianne A. Weight, Megan Lewis, Molly Harry

Journal of Athlete Development and Experience

Self-efficacy beliefs related to the performance of a task have been identified as strong predictors of performance success. Research has hypothesized that the most influential contextual factor in athlete self-efficacy development is the athlete-coach relationship, yet there is little research on this relationship. The purpose of this study was to examine collegiate athletes’ perceptions of the prevalence of transformative and destructive coaches, the teaching methods athletes perceive to be transformative (strengthening self-efficacy belief), and the influence of coaching methods on sport self-efficacy belief. Just over two-thirds of the athletes expressed having transformative coaches while over one-third experienced coaches they defined …

Problematizing The Adoption And Implementation Of Athlete Development ‘Models’: A Foucauldian-Inspired Analysis Of The Long-Term Athlete Development Framework, Mathew Dowling, Joseph Mills, Anna Stodter

Journal of Athlete Development and Experience

The purpose of this paper is to problematize the continued adoption and implementation of Long-Term Athlete Development (LTAD) framework (Balyi et al., 2005; 2014) as an increasingly orthodox conception of the athlete development process and for underpinning and designing sport coaching practice. In adopting a post-structuralist, Foucauldian perspective and drawing upon empirical interview data with Balyi and colleagues, senior government officials and sport administrators, our analysis examines some of the potential limitations for adopting and implementing LTAD as a conception of the athlete development process. In particular, we highlight the potential issues and contradictions linked to adopting such conceptions, namely …

Up, Down, And All-Around: The Swirling-Transfer Collegiate Athlete Experience, Ethan Swingle, Cristobal Salinas

Journal of Athlete Development and Experience

Intercollegiate athletics have become an integral part of campus life (Denhart, Villwock, & Vedder, 2010; Mixon & Trevino, 2005; Shulman & Bowen, 2001), and have grown exponentially in the resources universities put forth to participate in this extracurricular activity (Clotfelter, 2011). One of the biggest evolutions of intercollegiate athletics has been the collegiate athlete transfer phenomenon (Cooper & Hawkins, 2014); however, little research has been conducted on transfer collegiate athletes, or the transfer collegiate athlete experience. As such, the purpose of this instrumental case study was to discover and describe the experiences and perceptions of swirling-transfer collegiate athletes at Athletic …

The Transition Experiences Of Division I And Iii Collegiate Athletes, Allison B. Smith, Rob Hardin

Journal of Athlete Development and Experience

Athletic transition has been explored in sport management and sport psychology literature primarily focusing on transitioning into collegiate athletics, voluntary and involuntary transitions out of collegiate sport, and transitioning out of professional sport. This study compared NCAA Division I and III collegiate athletes’ perceptions regarding the athletic transition process. Semi-structured interviews were utilized to uncover the perceptions and experiences surrounding the transition process into, during, and out of collegiate sport (Lindlof & Taylor, 2019; Schlossberg, 1981). Three themes emerged from the data: Moving In: Compatability, Moving Through: Identity Directly Tied to Sport, and Moving Out: Redefining Oneself. More specifically, …

The Degree Of Interest Of Public Schools Principals In The Physical Education Classes And Its Practice From The Physical Education Teachers Perspective In North West Bank District, Ayoub Ahmad, Imad Abdelhaq, Bader Dwaikat

An-Najah University Journal for Research - B (Humanities)

This study aimed at investigating the role of the principals of governmental schools in activating the physical education lesson and the sport activity from the points of view of the physical Education teachers. To achieve that, the study was carried out on a stratified random sample that consisted of (289) male and female teachers of physical education in the north of west-bank. Statistical analysis was performed on SPSS (v. 20) and the statistical significant level was set at (α ≤ 0.05). The results of the study showed that the role of the principals of governmental schools in activating the physical …

Rivalry Appeals In Advertising: Distinctiveness Versus Inclusiveness, David Stahr

Honors Projects in Marketing

The main objective of the research is to study how convenience and shopping products impact how consumers react to rivalry appeals in advertisements. The authors examine the effectiveness of rivalry appeals in advertisements and how they are impacted by the product type considered by consumers. In two studies, a 2 (prime: distinctiveness vs. inclusiveness) x 2 (message: competition vs. collaboration) ANOVA methodology was conducted on survey data. In Study 1, participants primed with distinctiveness (inclusiveness) and considering convenience products experienced an assimilation effect where they preferred competitive (collaborative) rivalry appeals. In Study 2, participants primed with distinctiveness (inclusiveness) and considering …

Rivalry Appeals In Advertising: Distinctiveness Versus Inclusiveness, David Stahr, Sukki Yoon, Kacy Kim

Honors Projects in Marketing

The main objective of the research is to study how convenience and shopping products impact how consumers react to rivalry appeals in advertisements. The authors examine the effectiveness of rivalry appeals in advertisements and how they are impacted by the product type considered by consumers. In two studies, a 2 (prime: distinctiveness vs. inclusiveness) x 2 (message: competition vs. collaboration) ANOVA methodology was conducted on survey data. In Study 1, participants primed with distinctiveness (inclusiveness) and considering convenience products experienced an assimilation effect where they preferred competitive (collaborative) rivalry appeals. In Study 2, participants primed with distinctiveness (inclusiveness) and considering …

The Utah Statesman, November 16, 2020, Utah State University

The Utah Statesman

Weekly student newspaper of Utah State University in Logan

Travel Motives And Golf Tourists: An Exploratory Study, Chris Brown, Yuri Feito

Journal of Tourism Insights

Over the past 25 years the concept of sport tourism has taken on numerous forms and broadened tourism and sport research tremendously. Hui, Wan, and Ho (2007) indicated that the global tourism industry has become increasingly competitive, and golf tourism, as a subcategory of sport tourism, has received more recent attention within the tourism industry. Thus, it is becoming more important for golf courses and golf destinations to identify the variables which attract and retain their golfing clientele. The identification of common characteristics and travel motivations among golf tourists could provide useful information to golf destination marketers in targeting their …

Savannah Hockey Classic Attendance Motivation, Chris Hanna, Chris R. Barnhill, Gregg Rich, Amy Rundio, Christina Gipson

Journal of Tourism Insights

The Savannah Hockey Classic has become a very successful annual university club hockey team tournament. The 21^st edition of the tournament was held in January 2020 in Savannah, Ga. featuring the Georgia Institute of Technology, University of Florida, Florida State University, and University of Georgia club hockey teams—the same teams that have comprised the tournament for many years. This study utilized Personal Investment Theory (Braskamp, 1986) and the SPEED scale (Funk, Filo, Beaton, & Pritchard, 2009) for attendance motivation assessment. Social interaction motivations were significantly higher for county residents, spectators attending with friends, spectators attending with family, and past …

Voiding The Ncaa Show-Cause Penalty: Analysis And Ramifications Of A California Court Decision And Where College Athletics And Show-Cause Penalties Go From Here, Josh Lens

The University of New Hampshire Law Review

In late 2018, a Los Angeles County Superior Court judge sent shockwaves through college athletics by ruling that the NCAA’s Committee on Infractions (“COI”) unlawfully restrained now-former University of Southern California (“USC”) assistant football coach Todd McNair’s career when it imposed a “show-cause” penalty on him. Judge Frederick Shaller therefore declared NCAA show-cause penalties void under California employment law.

For decades, the COI has utilized show-cause penalties to punish individuals who break NCAA rules. Reserved for more egregious violations, universities and administrators long treated show-cause orders as scarlet letters, typically terminating or refusing to hire coaches subject to them. That …

The Minutes Of The Marshall University Faculty Senate Meeting, November 12, 2020, Marshall University Faculty Senate

Faculty Senate Minutes

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Hawks' Herald -- Nov. 12 , 2020, Roger Williams University

Hawk's Herald

No abstract provided.

Augmented Reality In Sport Marketing: Uses And Directions, Chad Goebert

Faculty Articles

The augmented reality (AR) market is expected to grow to $60.55 billion by 2023 and there are currently an estimated 4.2 billion AR-capable devices in the hands of consumers. Experts believe that sport is a high-value market for AR as it is uniquely positioned to utilize AR in multiple marketing contexts (Haber, 2019). The COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated the rate at which sport organizations are utilizing AR as they attempt to reach fans and consumers that are limited or restricted from attending events in person. This article introduces augmented reality to sport managers and practitioners and defines AR, detailing how …