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Sports, Volume 3, Issue 1

March 2015 - 5 articles

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Articles (5)

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
11,561 Views
16 Pages

2 March 2015

Winning one or two games during a Major League Baseball (MLB) season is often the difference between a team advancing to post-season play, or “waiting until next year”. Technology advances have made it feasible to augment historical data with in-game...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
8,852 Views
10 Pages

16 February 2015

Sprinting with a lower-limb amputation over 100 m has taken place in the Paralympic Games for over three decades. The aim of this paper is to statistically evaluate the performances and participation levels of such athletes during this period. The le...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
7,612 Views
9 Pages

Effect of Level and Downhill Running on Breathing Efficiency

  • Matthew D. Cook,
  • Stephen D. Myers,
  • John S. M. Kelly and
  • Mark E. T. Willems

23 January 2015

Ventilatory equivalents for oxygen and carbon dioxide are physiological measures of breathing efficiency, and are known to be affected by the intensity and mode of exercise. We examined the effect of level running (gradient 0%) and muscle-damaging do...

  • Review
  • Open Access
16 Citations
18,921 Views
9 Pages

Epidemiological Review of Injuries in Rugby Union

  • Jean-François Kaux,
  • Marc Julia,
  • François Delvaux,
  • Jean-Louis Croisier,
  • Bénédicte Forthomme,
  • Damien Monnot,
  • Marie Chupin,
  • Jean-Michel Crielaard,
  • Caroline Le Goff and
  • Arnaud Laly
  • + 2 authors

23 January 2015

Rugby is a sport that is growing in popularity. A contact sport par excellence, it causes a significant number of injuries. In Rugby Union, there are 30 to 91 injuries per 1000 match hours. This epidemiological review of injuries incurred by rugby...

  • Communication
  • Open Access
26 Citations
10,265 Views
11 Pages

8 January 2015

This study examined the association between anthropometric variables, Functional Movement Screen (FMS) scores and 100 m freestyle swimming performance in early adolescent swimmers. Fifty competitive, national level, youth swimmers (21 males, 29 femal...

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Sports - ISSN 2075-4663