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The Strategic Revolution: Scottish Ideals and Transnational Exchange in Golf Course Architecture, c. 1860s–1930s

Jordan Goldstein and Graeme Thompson

argue that the Strategic School golf architects encouraged and exemplified the transnational exchange of sport through the construction of golf courses in a peculiarly Scottish sense. This study builds upon and weaves together three distinct but complementary fields of historical scholarship. First, it

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Differences in Sport Management Doctoral Students’ Experiences With Gender Microaggressions and Stereotype Threat by Gender

Sarah B. Williams, Elizabeth A. Taylor, T. Christopher Greenwell, and Brigitte M. Burpo

members and depends upon the relationship networks within the doctoral student’s university ( Motshoane & McKenna, 2014 ). Doctoral education in the field of sport management is no different and relies heavily upon the student’s interaction with and guidance from faculty ( Jisha & Pitts, 2004 ). Sport

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Developing Recommendations for European Sport Coaching Policy: The PEAK Project

Louis Moustakas and John Bales

Recent years have seen significant efforts to further our understanding of sport coaching policy in Europe and elsewhere. At the country level, the International Sport Coaching Journal has published an extensive series of national system profiles, including Portugal, Finland, and Ireland ( Chambers

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Exploring the Effects of a Golf Program on Psychological and Social Wellbeing for People With Dementia, Carers, and Staff

Nathan Hill, Sonia Fihosy, and Paul M. Camic

to sport and physical activity, the cognitive and physical health benefits of which are well documented—for example, the potential for physical activity to mitigate cognitive decline ( Guure, Ibrahim, Adam, & Said, 2017 ). There is also consideration of the systemic impact of dementia on those in a

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Supporting Coaches to Learn Through and From Their Everyday Experiences: A 1:1 Coach Development Workflow for Performance Sport

Bob Muir and Julian North

This paper overviews an intensive 1:1 coach development workflow developed and used extensively by the first author, and to a degree by the second author in a research and development context, in U.K. performance and high-performance sport. The workflow has been developed and utilized in work with

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Defining Physical Literacy for Application in Australia: A Modified Delphi Method

Richard J. Keegan, Lisa M. Barnett, Dean A. Dudley, Richard D. Telford, David R. Lubans, Anna S. Bryant, William M. Roberts, Philip J. Morgan, Natasha K. Schranz, Juanita R. Weissensteiner, Stewart A. Vella, Jo Salmon, Jenny Ziviani, Anthony D. Okely, Nalda Wainwright, and John R. Evans

relatively ineffective message for physical activity interventions ( Ekkekakis & Zenko, 2016 ; Zenko, Ekkekakis, & Kavetsos, 2016 ). Likewise, physical literacy was asserted as a counterargument to the view that all young people need to gain skills to succeed in sport, because only a tiny proportion of

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For the Love of the Game: An Exploration of the Experiences and Psychosocial Development of Women 70 Years of Age and Older Who Play Volleyball

Jessica Brooke Kirby and Mary Ann Kluge

Sport is predominately considered to be a domain of our youth ( Coakley, 2015 ). When we think of sport, we most often think of elite, professional-level competition; rarely do we think of middle-aged to older aged adults. Despite the perception of the youthfulness of sport, there are increasing

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U.S. Center for SafeSport: Preventing Abuse in Sports

Nicole Johnson, Katie Hanna, Julie Novak, and Angelo P. Giardino

The U.S. Center for SafeSport (Center) is an independent nonprofit organization which is focused on ending all forms of abuse in sport, while carrying out its mission of making athlete well-being the centerpiece of the nation’s sport culture through abuse prevention, education, and accountability

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Validity and Reliability of a Digital Inclinometer to Assess Knee Joint Position Sense in an Open Kinetic Chain

Natalia Romero-Franco, Juan Antonio Montaño-Munuera, Juan Carlos Fernández-Domínguez, and Pedro Jiménez-Reyes

injury risk. 10 , 12 An inclinometer was also used to show that frequent intervention in sport like 30-minute ice bag application did not affect proprioceptive errors. 13 Inclinometers have even been used to monitor JPS improvements during the rehabilitation process of athletes suffering anterior

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Keeping It Real or Bridging the Gap? Brand Positioning of U.S. Sport Teams in Germany and China

Anton Behrens, Yanxiang Yang, and Sebastian Uhrich

Today, satellite fans, that is, fans who follow sport teams from a foreign country, make up the majority of the total fan base of many internationally popular team sport brands. A striking example is the English Premier League team Manchester United’s fan base, of which merely 13.7% come from