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Domestic moves: An exploration of intra-national labour mobility in the working lives of professional footballers 6 Aug 2013 | 02:54 pm
This article investigates the domestic, intra-state labour mobility of professional footballers. Qualitative semi-structured interviews were conducted with a snowball sample of 49 male professional fo...
The Irish bifocal and American sport: Exploring racial formation in the Irish Diaspora 6 Aug 2013 | 02:54 pm
Departing from previous research that focused only on how ‘the Irish’ became White, this essay will instead explore how the color line was used to define and divide the Irish Diaspora in the United St...
Consuming sports media, producing sports media: An analysis of two fan sports blogospheres 6 Aug 2013 | 02:54 pm
The fan sports blogger, a sports fan who contributes their own narratives to the quotidian reportage of sports by publishing an online sports news site on platforms like Blogger and Wordpress, is a re...
Infiltrating the boys' club: Motivations for women's fantasy sport participation 6 Aug 2013 | 02:54 pm
Understanding gender differences in fantasy sport consumption involves in-depth assessment of personal attributes, consumption, sport fandom, and motivations to participate. The study addresses the ar...
Beyond recreation: Personal social networks and social capital in the transition of young players from recreational football to formal football clubs 6 Aug 2013 | 02:54 pm
The relationship between sport and social capital is drawing the attention of a growing number of writers and researchers. However, its analysis is often limited to social capital accruing to communit...
Sports-based interventions for socially vulnerable youth: Towards well-defined interventions with easy-to-follow outcomes? 6 Aug 2013 | 02:54 pm
In this paper, we critically examine the burgeoning scientific discourse about sports-based interventions for socially vulnerable or disadvantaged youth from a socio-pedagogical perspective. It is arg...
Green Olympics, green legacies? An exploration of the environmental legacies of the Olympic Games 6 Aug 2013 | 02:54 pm
The ‘greening’ of mega-sporting events such as the Olympic Games (OG) has become an increasing priority of event organizers in the past two decades. This paper explores the legacies from the greening ...
