Tagged: sport

Featured image: Rugby, concussions and duty of care: why the game is facing scrutiny

Rugby, concussions and duty of care: why the game is facing scrutiny - Guest Work

Guest Author • Jun 04, 2021 •

Seema Patel, Nottingham Trent University   There’s growing concern about concussion-related injuries in contact sports like rugby and American football. Several high-profile collisions between participants and a growing body of research about their impact have drawn attention to the adequacy of the safety protocols in place to protect players. Since 2020, the debate has taken a … Read More

Featured image: Cycling: head injuries ignored because of entrenched macho culture

Cycling: head injuries ignored because of entrenched macho culture - Guest Work

Guest Author • Sep 24, 2020 •

Howard Hurst, University of Central Lancashire and Jack Hardwicke, University of Winchester Competitive road cycling is a demanding and unique sport. One where crashing is inevitable – especially at the professional level. While the risk of head injury is relatively low in cycling – approximately 5-13% – compared to contact sports such as rugby, the consequences of a … Read More

Featured image: Secrets, Spilled Soup and Schadenfreude

Secrets, Spilled Soup and Schadenfreude - Guest Work

Jean Balchin • Jan 11, 2018 •

Imagine, if you will, a cold, blustery day in the city. With the wind howling and the rain coming down in horizontal sheets, the interior of the bus seems positively luxurious. From your vantage point on the plush red seats, you watch as a bedraggled young man runs towards the bus stop, arms flailing and suitcase flying. Just as he … Read More

Featured image: Fair play at the Olympics: testosterone and female athletes

Fair play at the Olympics: testosterone and female athletes - Guest Work

Guest Author • Jun 21, 2016 •

By Peter Sonksen, University of Southampton and Daryl Adair, University of Technology Sydney There are performance differences between the sexes in elite sport. It has long been assumed that contrasting levels of testosterone in men and women can largely account for that gap, but new scientific studies are bringing that into question. Read More

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Special Licences and the Rugby World Cup - The Dismal Science

Eric Crampton • Aug 27, 2015 •

So, what’s the deal with special licences then? The Greens’ minority view on legislation enabling extended bar hours during the Rugby World Cup noted that special licences can do the job that the legislation is meant to do, and that the committee heard no evidence of special licence applications being refused and no submissions from licensees dissatisfied with the process. Read More

Football referees aren’t just wrong, they’re biased - The Dismal Science

James Zuccollo • Jun 18, 2014 •

Football penalties are often controversial and the first couple of days of the World Cup have already provided one dubious decision. Luckily for the referee’s personal safety it favoured the hosts, Brazil. But, according to Randal Olson’s fascinating analysis of penalty decisions, there may be more than luck involved: 70.6% of all penalty kicks were awarded to […] … Read More

Of Curling and Quinoa - The Dismal Science

Eric Crampton • Mar 08, 2014 •

I love this Colby Cosh piece on curling:The funny thing is that curling, even with money at stake, is formidably immune to most of the ugliness that modernity imposes on sport—the frantic marketing, the soul-killing training, the illicit performance-enhancers, the odiousness of billionaire ownership. Curling is unruinable. It will never be invaded by monsters with overdeveloped right arms. It … Read More

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