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This study focused on historically Black colleges and universities in men's college basketball. A review of previous literature revealed that referee bias was a recurring phenomenon, while whiteness studies served as the theoretical frame. The data for this analysis centered on a 16-year period of time. The referees called a statistically significant number of personal fouls per game against men's college basketball teams from historically Black colleges and universities relative to the number of personal fouls per game that referees called against men's college basketball teams from predominantly White institutions. These findings suggest that men's college basketball players were judged differently depending on whether the student-athlete played for a historically Black college and university or a predominantly White institution. The implications for critical and social theories were noted in the study discussion. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article, which is based upon long-term fieldwork observations of a revenue-generating National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division I women's college basketball team, proposes concrete and specific reforms that would more sufficiently compensate the professional role revenue-generating college athletes perform, without sacrificing the educational connection that is vital to the core of college sports for all male and female athletes, regardless of revenue-generation. It argues that colleges involved in revenue-generating college sports should expect college athletes to be students first, encourage them to earn pay for their names, images, and likenesses (NILs), and strike a better balance between providing education to athletes and entertainment to the public. Specific reforms include raising eligibility requirements, giving athletes more time and financial assistance to finish their degrees, and tying coaching pay to graduation rates, all of which would support the notion that universities treat athletes ethically. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

We aimed to explore life skills development among medical student-athletes who participated in a university basketball team. We conducted qualitative constructivist research based on the life skills approach. Medical students from the college basketball team were interviewed in-depth. Using inductive thematic analysis, two independent researchers generated codes and themes. Methodological integrity and self-reflection process were carefully followed. Our analyses revealed that the medical students involved as athletes in college basketball were likely to perceive life skills development to contribute to their future medical careers. Several life skills were mentioned, such as time management, leadership, teamwork, learning improvement and mental performance. The coach was the one mentioned as the essential agent in developing life skills. This study highlighted how a rational and responsible commitment to sports could contribute to developing life skills that might be transferable to a future medical career. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Sports contexts are increasingly used in management research to test and develop theory and explore managerially relevant phenomena. This growth in publications is likely driven by a series of advantages that sports data offers to management researchers. However, such positive features are not a panacea, as several drawbacks are also associated with leveraging sports data, which can limit their usefulness for management scholars. In this paper, we aim to provide management researchers guidance to leverage the advantages and avoid the drawbacks of leveraging sports contexts. To do so, we identify and review 249 papers published over the last 50 years that used sports data to advance management theories and shed light on managerial phenomena. After outlining how these works contributed to the growth of several key conversations in management research, we discuss the advantages of using sports data by outlining how they can advance management research both conceptually (e.g., theory building and radical theorizing) and empirically (e.g., triangulation and replication). We then discuss the potential drawbacks of research using sports data and suggest ways to compensate for them. We close by outlining several new directions in which scholars can leverage sports data to further advance management research. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Using data streams from ESPN.com (n.d.), we identified possible contingencies on timeout calling for 594 timeouts in 117 games for four Division 1 NCAA college basketball teams. We found that the probability of calling a timeout increased as the relative points scored by the opposing team increased. In addition to analyzing all timeouts inclusively, we analyzed timeouts called within the last 2 min of each half separately from those called in the rest of the game. Regardless of the window of analysis, the probability of calling a timeout increased as the relative points scored by the opposing team increased. To the extent that shots made and points scored by the opposing team were aversive to the coach (and players), the reductions that immediately followed the timeout may have functioned as negative reinforcement. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This element of audience movement is integral to the play, because Fornés believed that the audience should be hearing the conversations simultaneously as if they too were visitors in Fefu's home. - I Fefu and Her Friends i , p. 52 I first encountered María Irene Fornés's I Fefu and Her Friends i in 1997, exactly twenty years after its 1977 off-Broadway premiere. Now as a theatre professor and stage director at Providence College, our theatre department's play-selection committee was searching for plays to produce during our season dedicated to women in the theatre. In fact, in the nearly fifty-year existence of producing plays at our institution, this was the first Fornés play that had been suggested to the committee, let alone produced by the department. [Extracted from the article]

Introduction: The Korean Basketball League(KBL) holds an annual draft to allow teams to select new players, mostly graduates from the elite college basketball teams even though some are from high school teams. In sports games, many factors might influence the success of an athlete. In addition to possessing excellent physical and technical factors, success in a sports game is also influenced by remarkable psychological factors. Several studies reported that elite sports players can control their anxiety during competition, which may lead to better performance. In particular, the temperament and characteristics of players have been regarded as crucial determinants of the player's performance and goal. In this regard, numerous studies suggest that personality is considered to be an important predictor of long-term success in professional sports Objectives: Based on previous reports and studies, we hypothesized that physical status, temperament and characteristics, and neurocognitive functions of basketball players could predict the result of KBL draft selection. Especially, temperament and characteristics were associated with the result of KBL selection. The basketball performances including average scores and average rebound were associated with emotional perception and mental rotation. Methods: We recruited the number of 44 college elite basketball players(KBL selection, n=17; Non-KBL selection, n=27), and the number of 35 age-matched healthy comparison subjects who major in sports education in college. All participants were assessed with the Temperament and Character Inventory(TCI), Sports Anxiety Scales(SAS), Beck Depression Inventory(BDI), Perceived Stress Scale (PSS-10), Trail Making Test(TMT), and Computerized Neuro-cognitive Test(CNT) for Emotional Perception and Mental Rotation. Results: Current results showed that physical status, temperament and characteristics, and Neurocognitive functions of college basketball players could predict the KBL draft selection. Among temperament and characteristics, novelty seeking and reward dependence were associated with KBL draft selection. The basketball performances including average scores and average rebound were associated with emotional perception and mental rotation. Conclusions: In order to be a good basketball player for a long time, it was confirmed that temperamental factors and Neurocognitive factors were very closely related. Furthermore, it is also judged that these results can be used as basic data to predict potential professional basketball players. Disclosure of Interest: None Declared [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Computer-aided instruction (CAI) is a teaching method that uses modern media to present teaching content, optimize classroom teaching structure, and achieve teaching goals. Multimedia technology integrates graphics, text, and sound, with a large amount of information, rich content, and a good way of human-computer interaction. This article aims to study the reform of basketball teaching in colleges and universities from the perspective of basketball culture. This article mainly adopts the method of questionnaire survey and uses techniques such as big data statistics to investigate and analyze the composition of basketball teachers in colleges and universities in a certain province; Understand the situation; analyze and understand the impact of basketball culture on the reform of college basketball teaching; analyze the effect of the composition of college basketball teachers on college basketball teaching reform; and investigate the impact of the integration of basketball culture on students' basketball interest. The results show that about 70% of students believe that basketball can enhance physical fitness and recreation, while most teachers believe that basketball can enhance students 'physical fitness, impart students' skills, and promote physical and mental health. The expectations for leisure, entertainment and heritage culture are less than 20%. From the perspective of the age structure of teachers, the basketball team of colleges and universities shows younger characteristics and teachers less than 40 years old account for more than 70% of the total. 81.0% of college basketball teachers are mainly graduates, but the proportion of basketball teachers with a doctorate is significantly lower. Some colleges and universities do not even have a doctorate. Most of them are graduates and undergraduates. Some colleges and universities still have college students. Therefore, teachers often need to have a certain basic knowledge of basketball professional culture, and they should make full use of basketball sports culture and combine them with each other to cultivate their own basketball interests and promote the reform of basketball sports teaching methods in colleges and universities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]