The basketball-related sections of the Duquesne Duke from March 25, 1955. The Dukes have returned from the tournament victorious. Coverage on the final, the student and team celebrations, and prospects for the future.

Thesis (M.A.)--University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2005. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 83-85). Also available online (PDF file) by a subscription to the set or by purchasing the individual file.

Thesis (M.A.)--University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2005. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 83-85).

Master of Arts / Department of Economics / Yang M. Chang / College football thrives on the ideas that each school has what it takes to be the best, rivalries are of major importance, and either team can win the game. Competitive balance is what keeps these thoughts alive, offering the last team in the conference the chance to beat their top-ranked opponent, or the mediocre middle-rank team the chance to win a post-season bowl game. Competitive balance provides the level of uncertainty of game outcome that keeps fans coming back every season. Previous research has examined many variables that have an effect on competitive balance. The purpose of this report is to step forward from where previous studies left off and examine the effect of the conference championship game on competitive balance. Five of the eleven NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision conferences currently determine their conference champion by holding a championship game at the end of the season. Recent conference realignments bring about the possibility for two more conferences to establish championship games. Does hosting a conference championship game improve competitive balance within the league? This study examined several measures of competitive balance, including standard deviation measures, the competitive balance ratio, and Herfindahl-Hirschman Index. Results suggest a slightly higher level of competitive balance for conferences hosting championship games versus those that do not. However, these results are not statistically significant, and this higher level of competitive balance could be explained by the larger membership of conferences hosting championship games.

Sportinis rengimas – įvairiapusis sudėtingas edukacinis vyksmas, apimantis sportininko mokymą ir auklėjimą, jo gebėjimų, fizinių ir psichinių ypatybių tobulinimą, harmoningą asmenybės ugdymą, sveikatos stiprinimą, gerų sportinių rezultatų siekimą. Šiuolaikiniam tinkliniui būdinga didelė treniruotės krūvio apimtis ir intensyvumas. Baigiamojo darbo tema – 2009–2013 m. U21 stipriausių pasaulio tinklinio komandų varžybinės veiklos ir rungtynių trukmės analizė pasaulio čempionate. Tyrimo objektas: 2009 ir 2013 m. U21 stipriausių pasaulio tinklinio čempionato komandų varžybinė veikla ir rungtynių trukmės rodikliai. Tyrimo tikslas – išanalizuoti 2009 ir 2013 metų U21 stipriausių pasaulio tinklinio komandų varžybinę veiklą. Tyrimo uždaviniai: 1. Išanalizuoti 2009 ir 2013 metų U21 stipriausių pasaulio tinklinio komandų varžybinę veiklą. 2. Atlikti 2009 ir 2013 metų U21 stipriausių pasaulio tinklinio komandų rungtynių trukmės analizę. 3. Palyginti 2009 ir 2013 metų U21 stipriausių pasaulio tinklinio komandų varžybinės veiklos rezultatus. Analizavome 2009 ir 2013 metų U21 stipriausių pasaulio tinklinio komandų varžybinę veiklą. Buvo atlikta komandų rezultatyvumo ir varžybų trukmės rodiklių analizė. Rezultatams apdoroti buvo taikyta matematinė analizė (skaičiuojama aritmetinis vidurkis, standartinis nuokrypis, aritmetinio vidurkio paklaida). Nustatyta, kad didžioji dalis (44–49 proc.) rungtynių baigiasi rezultatu 3 : 0, o apie 25 proc. rungtynių – rezultatu 3 : 1, 3 : 2, tačiau... [toliau žr. visą tekstą] / Sports Training – diverse educational complex process involving an athlete's training and education, his skills, physical and mental characteristics of the development of harmonious personality development, health promotion, good sports performance objectives. Contemporary volleyball characterized by high training volume and intensity of exercise. The thesis topic – the analysis of duration of volleyball matches and competition effectiveness in 2009 and 2013 world youth (U21) volleyball championship. The object of the 2009 and 2013. U21 strongest volleyball world championship teams match practice and match expectancy. The aim – to analyze the 2009 and 2013 U21 world's strongest volleyball teams game activity. Objectives of the study: 1. Analyze the 2009 and 2013 U21 world's strongest volleyball team's game activity. 2. Carried out in 2009 and 2013, the world's strongest U21 volleyball teams match -cycle analysis. 3. Compare the 2009 and 2013 U21 world's strongest volleyball teams match practice results. We analyzed the 2009 and 2013 U21 world's strongest volleyball teams in the game activity. It was made a team's performance analysis, and event expectancy. Results of the process were applied to the mathematical analysis (arithmetic mean, standard deviation, error of the mean). It was found that the majority of the game (44–49 percent) finishes 3 : 0, and 3 : 1, 3 : 2 and ending close to 25 percent of all matches. However, different parts of the distribution of events differ... [to full text]

Successful presentation of a country as a brand and positioning its unique image on the global level can give significant opportunities for development and progress of the state in the different areas. This research applies theories on the country branding to estimate impact of mega sport events on the image of state. To accomplish these goal I used case study – formation of brand Ukraine before hosting European Football Championship 2012 (EURO 2012). To investigate  brand strategy of Ukraine and analyze implemented projects I conducted in-depth interviews with government officials and independent experts, who are involved in promo campaigns of Ukraine. The research concluded that Ukraine is in the process of  brand formation, but it is too early to to assume the existance of the comprehensive brand of the country. For Ukraine, EURO 2012 impulses change of negative perceptions of the country and  is a step towards complex strategy of brand creation. Future of this strategy therefore depends on conducting preliminary studies of each promo project and coordinated collaboration between all actors who take part in creation of brand Ukraine. Research also provides recommendations on how to make brand campaign more efficient.

Name: The feature of playing combinations of the national team of women played the Word championship in 2010 in volleyball. Subject: The feature of vollejball, the top volleyball, the feature of players and the feature of the whole Word championship in 2010 in volleyball of women. The goal of work: To describe a feature of playing combinations of the top women teams played in the Word championship in 2010 in Japan. To value striking combinations out of the kinds of variatious, how often the strike was applied, and Access of striking. Results: After meeting the goals to auclyse the most used Leeds of strikes combinations. To express the succsess of playing combinations of the top teams including the Czech team. Key words: volleyball, the top volleyball, playing combinations, word championship

Title: YMCA and University sport as pioneers of volleyball in Czech countries Objectives: The goal of our thesis is to make an overview of beginning and development of volleyball between first and second world war in Czech countries and to prove the influence of YMCA and University sport on it. Methods: We have used these methods in our thesis: progressive and retrospective method, direct and indirect method and comparative method. The necessary part of a retrospective and progressive method were synchronous and diachronic attitude to a historical progress. Results: The thesis provides an overview of information related to the formation and development in a period between World War I and World War II in the Czech lands with contribution of the YMCA organisation and the University Sport organisation. The paper demonstrates that these two organisations had the major role in the development of volleyball and thanks to them volleyball in our lands is one of the best ones in Europe from its beginning, in a matter of both its level and organisation. The objectives and partial objectives of the thesis have been fullfiled. Keywords: Clubs, results, tournament, competition, players, championship

Titel: The relationship of chosen factors between the game performance and the length of an active action of women handball players Objectives: We have determined two purposes. The first goal was to detect the composition of players according to the career's lenght during the period 2000-2010, then we were interested in composition of players in teams which had regularly participated on every championships during the same period. The second one was to find out the influence of the cereer's lenght of regularly participating teams on chosen coefficinets of game performance. Methods: We used quantitative colection/summary which can be found on websides of each championship as a source. The lenght of career is defined by the repetitive number of starts. We used the corelation method to determine the influence of career's lenght on the chosen coefficinets of game performance. All the informations are prepared in Microsoft Excel and the results are transfered into graphs and numbers. Results: In our project we found out that women players are participating most often on 1 or 2 championships. The career's leght has only tiny influence on two coefficients of game performance. Specifically it was the number of catched balls and also the number of dropped balls. We found out little differences by analysing...

Title: Evaluation and comparison of the success in gaming activities of libero with hitters in the mens volleyball European Championship 2011 Objectives: The main objective of this thesis is comparison of libero and hitters. This thesis focus on pass after servis from oponent team and on field game. We will achieve results about succes rate of libero and compare those results with results of hitters, on European championship 2011 in men voleyball, in the same category. Methods: In this thesis is used the method of indirect observation, thanks to video. It was recorded success of passing and collection via line method. In order to classify the quality of passing and collection, it was used five-point scale. Results: The results confirmed all the research questions, so we are convinced of the quality and indispensability of libero in Volleyball. Keywords: Volleyball, individual game activity, libero, European championship, statistik