The Female Athlete Triad: A Statement of the Problem
Tara Tietjen-Smith and Jim Mercer
Abstract
Almost 3 million high school girls are currently competing in sports,
and female participation in collegiate athletics has risen over 137%.
Fierce competition in some sports is potentially dangerous for
adolescent girls who are especially vulnerable to an obsession with
thinness. The Female Athlete Triad (FAT) consists of disordered eating,
amenorrhea, and osteoporosis. Coaches, athletic trainers and other
health professionals should gain an understanding of FAT in order to
adequately care for the well-being of female athletes.
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A Test of Social
Facilitation as a Predictor of Home Performance Advantage
David
Dryden Henningsen , Mary Lynn Miller Henningsen, Mary
Braz
Abstract
This study tests predictions concerning social facilitation and the home
performance advantage in men’s college basketball. Home performance
advantage reflects how audiences at sporting events may influence the
players' performance such that performance at home exceeds performance
on the road. Using social facilitation as an explanatory mechanism the
home performance advantage is hypothesized to be greater for high
ability teams than for lower ability teams on shooting tasks. In
addition, social facilitation is posited to have the greatest effect on
relatively simple shots and the smallest effect on more difficult
shots. The results provide support for social facilitation as an
explanatory mechanism but only for field goal shooting, not for free
throw or three point shooting. Three competing explanations (ceiling
effects, social inhibition, and referee bias) for these mixed results
are proposed and considered.
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Beyond the Game: The Imagery of Major League
Baseball
Roy F. Fox
Abstract
Using iconic and
representative artifacts such as posters, news photos, baseball cards,
logos, cereal boxes, and Internet web sites, this article explores the
"visual history" of how major league baseball and its players have been
represented over the past century. The article explains and illustrates
seven stages of visual representation: 1) focus on the game itself; 2)
focus on information about the game itself; 3) focus on information
about the player; 4) focus on just the player; 5) focus on just the
player’s personality; 6) focus on entertainment that is peripheral to
baseball; and 7) focus on celebrity-hood itself—the act of or the
process of being famous.
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