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Introduction: MotoGP (Moto Grand Prix) is the premier class of motorcycle road racing events held on road circuits over a distance between 100 and 130 kilometers. Despite its worldwide popularity, there are only few studies published in the scientific literature, thus the aim of this paper is to contribute to the discussion about epidemiological data regarding the injuries of MotoGP riders. Material and method: Riders involved in the Moto Grand Prix (MotoGP) World Championships 2019, 2020, and 2021 were studied for time-loss injuries (TLI) by searching the official websites of riders themselves, races, sports newspapers. Results: Twenty-nine riders (age 28.0±4.7 yrs; BMI 21.8±1.2 kg/m2) with 11.8±8.2 yrs of experience in MotoGP and in motor racing championships, participated in the MotoGP World Championships 2019, 2020 and 2021. They reported 26 TLI during races, without difference between race and pre-race practice. TLI prevalence tends to increase linearly as riders participate in more than one subsequent Championship (R2 = 0.998; p<0.001), with a risk of 100% through the entire career. Incidence of TLI was 21.2/1000 hours of race (CI 95%: 9.7-32.8). TLI were classified as contusions (35%), bone fractures (32%), sprains (10%), contussions (10%), compartment syndromes (6%) and reopening of surgical wound (3%). Fractures accounted for 1.5% of the falls in the 2019-2021 championships and for 59% of TLI in career, affecting the upper limb in 62% of cases of fractures. Injuries were due to lowside (46%), collisions (38%), highside (8%), speed wobble (4%) and gust of wind (4%). The median absence from trainings and competitions due to TLI was 18 days (range 1-271). Conclusions: Training sessions and testing are equally occasions for TLI and should be considered for prevention and safety promotion of MotoGP riders

The Growing Importance of Women in Portuguese Football and in the Sports Press

This study aims to investigate the processes of change in valuing women's participation in the world of football, as well as their recognition by sports journalism. The initial research question was: "What difficulties do women encounter in gaining acceptance in the world of football and in sports journalism in Portugal?". The main objectives were: 1) To analyse the role of women football players in Portugal; 2) To understand the position of women's football in Portugal; 3) To find out how Portuguese sports journalism treats women's football; 4) To investigate the role of communication in publicising women's football in Portugal; 5) To understand the perception of women's football in Portugal. In order to achieve these objectives, the methodology involves carrying out an exploratory empirical study based on analysing the content of the main Portuguese sports newspapers and applying a questionnaire survey to the Portuguese population in general. The main aim of analysing the sports newspapers is to find out how Portuguese sports journalism treats women's football and how regularly and relevantly women's football is covered in the news. In turn, the questionnaire survey seeks to understand the perception, acceptance and information that the Portuguese population has about women's football. The results obtained were very enlightening, showing that women's football in Portugal still needs a lot of development and acceptance and that the mass media is blamed for the lack of publicity and promotion of women's football in Portugal, which means that the majority of the population has no knowledge or information about what goes on in women's football. On the other hand, it was also possible to ascertain that there is still a certain stigma regarding women's football, denoting the existence of prejudice and unequal treatment, as reflected in its presence in sports journalism.

An Investigation of Engagement Resources in the World Cup 2022 Newspaper Articles in the Arab World Media

Introduction: Investigating patterns of dialogic engagement in newspaper articles can help inform novice writers of effective writing strategies that can increase their readers’ engagement and interest. The study aimed to identify the linguistic features used to engage and sustain readers’ interest in sports newspaper articles and explore related research within a systemic functional linguistics framework. Methodology: A corpus of 9,000 words from 14 different sports newspaper articles was analyzed using the UAM Corpus Tool software following Appraisal Theory proposed by Martin and White (2005). Results: The study revealed that writers of sports news employed various linguistic and discourse strategies, including evaluative language, to create engagement. The findings suggest that heteroglossic instances were more common, compared to monoglossic ones. Moreover, the writers preferred to use contract resources more frequently than expand resources. Disclaim resources had a higher frequency than proclaim resources, while attribute and entertainment resources were almost equally used. Conclusion: According to the findings, sports news writers use a range of grammatical structures and vocabulary choices to create a sense of immediacy and establish the relevance of the reported events.

Sports Journalists and Readers: Journalism and User Incivility

ABSTRACT This article assesses the impact of sports journalism style on uncivil conversations, by analyzing the news that has generated the most deleted comments and the published readers’ comments. The two sports newspapers with the largest number of readers in Spain (As and Marca) between 2019 and 2020 are compared. The analyzed journalistic pieces in both newspapers are proven to promote controversy and user participation, thus creating a polarized and strongly confronted community. Journalists lose their status as professionals by using a subjective, emotional and colloquial style, and they become mere commentators who can be discredited. This style is the breeding ground for uncivil conversations. Localized hate expressions are ideological: Spanish nationalism confronts Catalan independence in such a way that the world of football becomes dependent on the country's politics. There is no lack of negative gender stereotypes either in the predominantly male order of sport. Since no changes were observed during the pandemic, it can be established that these characteristics are part of the journalistic routine. Only the paywall introduced by As in the second half of 2020 change conversations: the number of messages, including deleted ones, was reduced, and positive feelings advanced in more rational conversations.

TOPIC-TRIGGERED METAPHORS IN NEWSPAPER HEADLINES

The paper deals with metonymy based metaphors in sports newspaper headlines. These are mainly novel, unconventional metaphors, in which the choice of a metaphorical source domain is triggered by some aspects of the target domain. We deal with such metaphors where the NICKNAME of a sports club (animal- or bird-related) metonymically stands for the SPORTS CLUB, when the salient attributes of animals and birds are mapped onto the players. We show how these creative metaphors for VICTORY (eating the opponent, taming the opponent, flying, etc.) and DEFEAT (losing the wings, falling, etc.) are based on some conventional conceptual metaphors.

Putting Russia's Ban in Historical Perspective: A Curated Interview

Putting Russia's Ban in Historical Perspective: A Curated Interview

The Role of the Specialized Press in Influencing Public Opinion Towards the Issues of Intolerance and Stadium Riots


 This study deals with the role of the specialized press in influencing public opinion towards the issues of intolerance and stadium riots applied to the Sports newspapers Goon and Al-Sada during the period from 2013 to 2015 AD. The importance of this research paper comes in view of the great role that sports play towards members of society and its great contribution to the global economic market after the tremendous development and great transformation witnessed by local, continental and international competitions and championships, and its negative and positive impact on the public especially the youth category, whose interests varied and were distributed among different activities.
 Important sports issues such as intolerance and stadium riots have become increasingly interested in the media, especially the specialized press, which deals with them from all angles and contribute to developing solutions and treatments for them with the relevant authorities. The researcher tries through This study to identify the impact of the sports press in Sudan on public opinion towards important sports issues, which increased in frequency during the period between 2013-2015.Through scientific methods and research methods, The researcher used the descriptive analytical approach to describe the state of sports journalism and to know the extent of its impact on readers, and he also employed data collection tools in order to accomplish the message, where he chose the observation, the interview, and the questionnaire.The study includes four chapters and a set of investigations, where the first chapter is devoted to the methodological framework, while the second chapter entitled: specialized journalism and includes three sections, while the fourth chapter is devoted to public opinion and sports issues, and the fourth chapter includes the applied field study.
 The research community dealt with a randomly selected sample of the readers of Goon and Al-Sada newspapers - and the study concluded with a set of results, the most important of which are:
 
 The sports press has dealt negatively with issues of violence, fanaticism and riots that have occurred in Sudanese stadiums in recent years.
 Some journalists take advantage of their relations with club administrations and work for their own interests.
 
 It came out with a number of recommendations, the most important of which are:
 
 The sports press should review its performance as regards sports issues, address defects and shortcomings and to implement professionalism and adhere to the side of impartiality.
 
 2- The sports press should pay attention to sports activities other than football and to allocate a sufficient space for it.

The sporting press and Indigenous culture in the nineteenth century

This review surveys portrayals of Indigenous athletes in nineteenth century Victorian newspaper sports writing. The review considers limited yet revelatory knowledge of the extent of the contributions of Indigenous athletes across the period, particularly where it highlights positive and constructive framings of their participation. The survey employs textual analysis to further underline the value of the sporting press as a practical resource, specifically in the recovery of “lost” or “hidden” knowledge related to the Indigenous Australians in the Victorian sporting landscape of the nineteenth century and early twentieth century.

Sports Journalism’s Uncertain Future: Navigating the Current Media Ecosystem in the Wake of the COVID-19 Pandemic

ABSTRACT In March 2020, the sporting landscape was paused indefinitely due to the COVID-19 pandemic. To understand how the job function and routines of newspaper sports journalists were impacted during the initial U.S. outbreak (March to July 2020), semi-structured in-depth interviews with 23 members of United States (US) print sports media were conducted. Interviewee responses elucidated three main themes: the future of sports journalism is unknown and frightening for those working in the industry, COVID-19 illustrates the importance of interpersonal relationships to produce quality stories, and COVID-19 validates the importance of quality sports journalism. Additionally, interviewees also shed light on the impact that videoconference interviews, specifically those conducted over Zoom, have on the sports journalism field. Even though it was deemed a useful tool during the pandemic, sportswriters feared that teams will continue to limit access by relegating all interviews to Zoom, thus drastically changing the norms of sports journalism. The theoretical implications of these findings are discussed.

The Framing of the National Men’s Basketball Team Defeats in the Eurobasket Championships (2007–2017) by the Greek Press

As the study of the negatively expressed news on sports constitutes a scientific area that has not received proper attention by researchers yet, the purpose of this study was to investigate the framing of the Greek national men’s basketball team defeats by the Greek press. Articles (n = 178) concerning the Eurobasket championships from 2007 to 2017, published in three political newspapers and one sports newspaper, were analyzed through content analysis. Specifically, the research reflected upon (a) the existence of the primary framework of “attribution of responsibility”, (b) the differences in framing among the newspapers, and (c) where/to whom the Media focused on regarding the defeats. The “attribution of responsibility” framing was found in all newspapers under study, both in the content and in the titles of the articles, primarily the day after the games. Regarding the defeats, the media were centralized around 12 factors and 8 subfactors as components of responsibilities, while a significant number of other frames were also identified as well as the four stages of the framing function. In conclusion, the finding that framing is significantly met in sports reporting contradicts the credited characterization of “cheerleaders” to sports journalists.

Bahraini uprising of 2011: The (No More) hidden political role of sports journalism

Two events have brought the social movement in Bahrain to light yet again: the temporary detention of the football player Hakeem Al-Araibi in Thailand for alleged ‘terrorist’ acts and the imprisonment of the activist Najah Yusuf because of her criticism of the hosting of a Formula One Grand Prix. This paper sheds light on the nexus between sports journalism and politics in Bahrain. It highlights the weaponizing of sports journalism during the first few weeks of the 2011 uprising to protect the regime. The coverage of the demonstrations is analysed to inspect how the 2011 uprising was reported on by the pro-regime sports newspapers. This paper argues that sports journalism played an unprecedented political role during the uprising when it was used by the regime as a weapon to confront the protests and in the process reinforce the regime's control over the country.

RELIGIOUS METAPHORS IN NEWSPAPER SPORTS DISCOURSE: FUNCTIONAL ASPECT (ON THE MATERIAL OF BRITISH NEWSPAPERS)

The article is devoted to the functional aspect of religious metaphors in newspaper sports discourse. The material under analysis is English religious metaphors which are studied in quality and popular British newspapers (The Guardian, The Daily Telegraph, The Daily Mail, The Daily Mirror). According to the traditional point of view, modern research of sports discourse is inseparable from the analysis of media texts, as media do not only cover sports events most effectively but also determine their assessment. Metaphors are considered to provide informative accuracy necessary for effective communication, they create images that affect the attitude of the reader to events covered by the media.

CREAM MERINGUES VS A DIVINE T-SHIRT: CATALAN IDENTITY IN THE SPANISH SPORTS DISCOURSE

This paper aims to make a sketch in the investigation of the representation of the Catalan identity that is inextricably linked to FC Barcelona in the contemporary Spanish sports discourse from its linguistic perspective within the sociocultural premises. The corpus of the data we have analyzed is translated from the most important Spanish sports newspapers As, Marca, Mundo Deportivo and Sport in the range of 2012-2015, as well as from the books of publicist style, with a particular attention paid to some headlines of the articles to the Champions League Final, World Cup and UEFA Euro Cup. The methods we used are critical discourse analysis, linguisitic description with elements of sociolinguistic research. It was revealed that both newspapers and books of journalistic and artistic styles are filled with lexical units from Catalan language: from slogans up to toponyms, anthroponyms, or cultural realia. The lexical item lo catalán (“Catalan” and “Catalonia”) is incorporated into the broad range of speeches and written texts. The official status of this language is regularized in the Statute of FC Barcelona. The incorporation of the Catalan language is manifested in the discourse of players and coaches, Statutes of FC Barcelona, slogans, toponyms, anthroponyms and cultural realia. We also analyzed the role of deictic markers as an expressive dominant of the texts that constitute the fan-position of the above-mentioned sports newspapers. It was exposed the clear presence of two units of discourse madridismo and barcelonismo that have sociocultural meaning to define the tendency of the rivalry between two sports clubs that goes beyond the mere sport. Sarcasm, irony, and humor are the main communicative strategies of their construction in the contemporary Spanish sports discourse.

빅데이터 분석을 적용한 골프 신문 기사의 보도 경향과 선수 심리에 관한 내용 평가

Purpose: This study applies big data analysis to sports newspaper articles to confirm the psychological terms of athletes found in the articles, and to identify the extent to which psychological analysis of athletes is performed in writing sports articles.<BR> Method: For this purpose, golf articles written from January 1, 2017to December 31, 2019 were collected using BigKinds, the press database of the Korea Press Foundation. In addition, 20 sports psychology terms that have an important influence on golf games and should be included in golf articles were selected for Kinesiology experts. The frequency and ratio of the data were calculated using the readxl, KoNLP, and stringr packages of the R program.<BR> Results: According to the results of keyword analysis of 2,606 golf articles that were finally used after the data refinement process, the frequency of words such as ‘tour’, ‘season’, ‘open’, and ‘championship’, which are information related to golf tournaments, was high. In addition, terms such as ‘ta’, ‘under’, ‘buddy’, ‘par’, and ‘round’, which are golf game terms, were extracted as the most frequent words. However, the frequency of sports psychology terms was significantly lower. It was found that the ranking of the sports psychological terms selected by experts and the terms extracted through the actual big data analysis substantially coincided.<BR> Conclusion: It has been shown that psychological analysis is not sufficiently performed even on golf articles, which are known to have a significant influence on the outcome of the player’s psychology. This study provides a standard for articles that are judged to be excellent from the point of view of the Kinesiology know-ledge system, especially articles that have been effectively analyzed for sports psychology, and the importance of professional knowledge in Kinesiology in the field of sports media and the need for field coverage of games is to emphasize.

Athletics, Exhibitions and Exchanges: American Sport Diplomacy in Iran, 1955–1959

This article examines the short-lived 1950s American sport diplomacy campaign in Iran. It analyses the motives behind this policy, the initiatives employed and the extent to which US policymakers regarded them as a success. The piece illustrates how these sport diplomacy initiatives - centred on track, field and other Olympic events - comprised a key facet of a broader public diplomacy campaign aimed at countering negative popular perceptions of the United States in the wake of its involvement in the August 1953 coup. Notable initiatives included the sending of former high-jumper David Albritton to coach Iranian athletes, inviting several US athletes to perform exhibitions and the creation of a newspaper sports supplement. This sport diplomacy campaign, however, was fleeting. With no figure willing to replace Albritton after his 1957 return to Ohio, USIS figures in Iran increasingly relied on cultural initiatives to engage with the general public. The analysis here highlights four key points: first, sport diplomacy’s pivotal function as a tool to strengthen and develop US-Iran relations; second, the role of certain individuals in making and shaping these initiatives; third, the Iranian government’s conduct in facilitating these policies; and finally, that USIS sport diplomacy in Iran was a short-term endeavour.

Irish media: slow to get up to the pace of the game

This piece reflects on my professional and personal involvement in sport, as editor of a national newspaper and coach of a girls' youth team at my local GAA club. In so doing, it highlights some of the prejudices I saw first-hand while coaching teams which, in turn, opened my eyes to my own failures in my role as sports editor. The first camogie supplement in a Sunday newspaper sports section broke this glass ceiling. Arguably, the responsibility on native media outlets to include more coverage of women's sports is increasing as mainly UK broadcasters enter the Irish media scape.

From the Tribune to the Tube: The Development of Sports Punditry on Cable Television

This article argues that the genre of televised sports punditry primarily developed from newspaper columnists and sports talk radio hosts, with the outrage discourse that dominated both sports and ...

Features of femininity: sportswomen in the Spanish sporting press, 1893 – 1923

ABSTRACT This study investigates the visual discourses of Spanish sport newspapers during the initial era of modern sport in Spain. Employing a critical feminist framework, the research focuses on the representation of sportswomen and the construction of visual discourses of femininity. The study identifies a broad range of femininities: from characteristics symbolic of the most traditional image of the feminine, to completely transgressive versions of femininity. Femininity also appears associated with certain sports, and, in contrast to the discourses of the era, it is an active femininity, with the majority of images capturing sporting actions. We conclude that the most traditional femininities live alongside transgressive femininities, and that active movement is an accepted feature of femininity in the context of sport during the period under consideration.

“Cutting Editors Faster Than We’re Cutting Reporters”: Influences of The Athletic on Sports Journalism Quality and Standards

Since its 2016 launch, negative attitudes toward The Athletic, a network of hyperlocal subscription sports news sites, have resonated throughout the journalism community because of the new media startup’s nontraditional approach, one centered on hiring established journalists from the hometown newspaper. Therefore, to accurately paint a picture of The Athletic’s perceived impact on print journalism, 22 in-depth interviews were conducted with newspaper sports editors. This analysis reveals that most sports editors were generally accepting of The Athletic and viewed its presence as reinforcement that newspapers need to stick to daily coverage to stand out in the crowded sports media marketplace.

The Qualitative Analysis of Ioan Chirila’s Articles Published in the Romanian Sports Newspapers and Magazines

The Qualitative Analysis of Ioan Chirila’s Articles Published in the Romanian Sports Newspapers and Magazines