This creative project has explored Grambling State University Football Program and Media Coverage. Grambling State University has a highly successful football program due mainly to the efforts of Coach Eddie Robinson and Public Relations Director, Callie Nicholson. Coach Robinson has been head coach at Grambling State University for the past thirty-five years. During this time he has successfully coached some of the greatest players in the game. His lifetime record of game wins is exceeded only by Coach Paul "Bear" Bryant. One hundred and sixteen former Grambling State University players have gone on to professional football.In addition, this creative project has informed the writer of the three things it takes to make a winner; an organizer, a builder and a promoter. The name of the game is football. The objective is winning. At Grambling State University the football program is, and will continue to be, successful.

The institutions of the European Union (EU) have been involved in football-related matters for more than 30 years without having a direct competence in sport. This apparent paradox is the starting point of this thesis, which investigates the origin, development and consequences of EU policies on football. The EU interventions in football issues are examined through a conceptual framework based on models of agenda-setting and multilevel governance. This thesis draws on qualitative research through primary sources, mainly semi-structured interviews and official documents. The most important policy initiatives and decisions of the EU on football matters can be grouped under three headings: freedom of movement for workers, football broadcasting and football governance. EU institutions did not become involved in football matters by their own volition, but as a result of their responsibilities to adjudicate in legal disputes related to freedom of movement for workers and competition policy. The commercialisation of professional football especially over the last few decades generated internal conflicts in the governance of football that were only resolved with recourse to the European Court of Justice (ECJ). The EU has acted as an alternative policy venue for football stakeholders wishing to challenge the decisions of football federations. Thus, the EU and football appear as two systems of multilevel governance that have coexisted in parallel for some time but have since clashed as a result of the instrumentalisation of EU venues by football stakeholders. The policies of the EU on football are a compromise between two different visions of the game. Whereas football was initially introduced onto the EU agenda only in economic terms through the ECJ and the Commission, the EU has subsequently developed a more holistic and nuanced vision of football that takes into account its wider social and cultural values. The intervention of the Member States and the European Parliament, at the request of football governing bodies, facilitated the further evolution of EU policies on football. As a result of all these processes, the authority of federations such as the international football federation (Fédération Internationale de Football Association, FIFA) and the Union of European Football Associations (UEFA) has been diffused in favour of a horizontal network of governance that includes representatives from players, clubs and leagues.

Depuis les 10 dernières années, l’intelligence d’affaires et l’analytique (IA&A) sont devenues des sujets d’intérêts pour la recherche en systèmes d’information (SI) ainsi que pour les professionnels du domaine. Les initiatives en IA&A ont généré des bénéfices pour de nombreuses organisations dans plusieurs secteurs tels que la finance, les assurances, le divertissement ou encore les communications. Un domaine relativement nouveau où l’IA&A a fait son apparition est le sport compétitif. Les institutions, organisations sportives et athlètes d’élite tentent de mettre à profit l’utilisation des données et des technologies pour améliorer leurs performances, et ce, à différents niveaux. Alors que l’utilisation d’outils en IA&A dans les sports compétitifs a joui d’une médiatisation plus importante ces derniers temps, la recherche académique dans le domaine reste encore à un stade primaire. Dans cette étude, nous utiliserons deux situations dans le football universitaire pour mettre en évidence les composantes d’un cadre conceptuel de création de valeur dans les sports compétitifs. Nous présenterons une méthodologie afin d’optimiser le processus de recrutement collégial d’une organisation universitaire, ainsi qu’une autre méthodologie afin d’optimiser la prise de décision dans une situation de match précise.

The problem of this study was to determine the effect mental practice, physical practice, and a combination of physical and mental practice had upon the accuracy of the football center snap for field goals and extra points after a touchdown.

The recent intellectual movement away from universalism towards particularism can be witnessed in most divisions of social philosophical thought. Such a paradigmatic shift has radically transformed a number of theories including feminist ethics. In contrast, however, philosophical analyses of fairness in sport have retained allegiance to universalist accounts in that conceptions of fair play remain enshrined in formalist accounts of the nature of rules and laws that govern sporting games. In this thesis, it is argued that universalist accounts of fair play in sport are incomplete in so far as they fail to consider that what constitutes fairness in sport is more than just the interpretation of formal rule structures. The richer analysis of fair play in sport offered here highlights the importance of individual experiences and the structures that shape those experiences. The ethical investigation is compatible with certain feminist ethical commitments. In order to evaluate whether a given sporting ethos is ethical, the thesis is committed methodologically to a mixed model approach. The aim is to find out the beliefs, values and ideologies of the people involved. Hence, a context-respectful methodology collecting and utilising thick descriptions is employed. It is argued that an ethical ethos has no room for intentional rule violation. For a given ethos to be ethical its game must be practised in a certain way with a certain attitude. The evaluation in this thesis concludes that the ethos of English elite women's cricket is unethical. It is hoped that a potential outcome of the thesis will be a different understanding of fair play that may shape new forms of ethical enquiry and challenge existing methodologies. Argument: (1) In sport philosophical literature fair play has been characteristically understood in one way: the formalist account of the nature of rules and laws. (2) While it is true that one can not talk about fair play without reference to the rules and laws of an activity, this account is incomplete since it fails to consider ethos. (3) Part of what an ethos means derives from the beliefs, values and ideologies of players themselves who have constructed agreements as to how the game ought to be enacted. (4) To understand fair play in elite women's cricket, therefore, one must understand the rules and laws but also, crucially, its ethos.

Thèse numérisée par la Direction des bibliothèques de l'Université de Montréal.

Aimes: The dissertation examines the development of coordination abilities in women's football. At first, problems of fitness training, planning of training macrocycle and the issue of women's and young ladies' training are analysed. A considerable part of the theoretical section is devoted to coordination abilities. Second part and testing follow. To find out the level of coordination abilities, these testing disciplines were used: Agility test, run with a somersault, two-footed jump on target and vertical jump with the rotation of torso. The results of this testing informed us about the level of coordination abilities of both observed players and the whole group. Methods:Literary researches, descriptive and illustrative examples used in order to acquaint probands with particular motor tests, the observation of probands during testing, testing and evaluation of performance in motor tests, a method of test-retest, qualitative and quantitative statistical methods, logical methods (analysis, synthesis, inductive and deductive reasoning. Results: From the point of view of the long-term conception of sports training, the coordination skills seem to be an essential element of a successful mastering of motor skills, more or less dependent on the coordination. If the particular skills are not developed during so...

Title: Football recruitment campaign in the Czech Republic Objectives: The main objective of this study is based on mapping and analysis of current practice and implemented recruitment campaigns in Czech football to find the flaws and the ideal model for devising measures to improve and effectiveness of these campaigns. Then identify and get to know the target group of parents of young footballers. Methods: In this work we were used methods of case studies, statistical data analysis and involved observation in the context of mapping the current practice of football recruitment campaigns in the Czech Republic. Further, a questionnaire survey among parents of current footballers to 18 years to identify the target group of football recruitment campaigns. Everything was supplemented by expert interview with a representative of the FACR. Results: In the Czech Republic there are two major football recruitment campaign, My first club and My first goal. Communication channels and tools of both campaigns were analysed in detail and presented their results. The questionnaire survey brought the identification of target groups for these recruitment campaigns. Thanks to lessons learned were proposed recommendations for researched campaigns. Keywords: football, campaign, marketing, communication, recruitment,

This thesis is focused on comparing successful implementation of selected basic offensive actions selected ten players Synot league with a success rate of ten selected football players is world class. The work is divided into theoretical and practical part. The theoretical part describes the individual game activities and their implementation. It is described here briefly our highest football competition - Synot League. In the practical part interprets the results of observation and comparison of players in designated pairs, with each brief summary of its successful execution of individual gaming activities.

Název: Koordinační schopnosti u fotbalového brankáře v mládežnických kategoriích Anotace: Tato diplomová práce se zabývá porovnáním úrovně koordinačních schopností žáků různých věkových kategoriích a specializovaně trénujících brankářů stejného věku. Klíčová slova: Koordinace, schopnosti, brankář, fotbal