This study explores the extent to which national newspaper coverage of a successful female coach reflects the broader gender ideology of society. This study looks specifically at the New York Times, The Washington Post and USA Today's coverage of six Women's Division I national basketball tournaments in which Pat Summitt coached the University of Tennessee in the championship game. The years included for this analysis are 1996, 1997, 1998, 2000, 2003 and 2004. This rhetorical analysis examines this print coverage to determine if, consistent with previous research on media coverage of the female athlete, Summitt's traditional gender role is privileged over her coaching role. The results suggest that Summitt is characterized in ways that marginalize and trivialize her coaching acomplishments. The findings also suggest that even as women succeed in the male-dominated world of sport, societal pressures require that they be presented as properly gendered heterosexual females.

The purposes of this study were to quantify, in three dimensions (3D), kinematic parameters of the free throw shot with both the women's small ball and the large ball, and to compare the parameters of the small ball to the large ball. Nine female varsity college basketball players were filmed and the 3D data were computed with the Nonlinear Transformation method. Statistical analysis of parameters including ball trajectory and body position failed to show an effect for ball condition. Since the velocity of release was not statistically different between the two balls and the ball mass was different, the results suggest that impulse is the differing factor.

v angličtině Tittle (Theme works):Evaluation of condition preparedness of basketball players Student: Bc. Petra Lukešová Supervisor: PhDr. Aleš Kaplan, Ph.D. Aims of the dissertation: The main goal of the thesis is evaluation of physical shape of the elite Prague woman basketball team on the basis of repeated tests in intentionally chosen preparatory period. Methodology of work: Primary the thesis focuses on evaluation of conditional preparedness of elite basketball players in chosen condition preparatory periods for seasons 2001/2002, 2002/2003 and 2012/2013. The first method to discover basic figures was elementary anthropometric measuring where we determined the weight and height. Moreover we calculated the BMI. For the evolvement of conditional preparedness we selected the test battery of field tests. These tests differ from each other in content through the chosen periods. At the end of the preparatory condition period the laboratory test on the track ergometer was incorporated. The physical composition of the elite basketball players was found out within the laboratory test using the methods that are described in the methodology. Furthermore the lactate was taken. Results of the thesis: Through the chosen test battery and by the chosen methodology it was discovered, that the chosen sample of...

Title: Participation of foreign players on team game performance in our highest competition for women. Objectives: The goal of this master's thesis is to compare game performance of foreign players with Czech players from season 1998/1999 to season 2017/2018 in the highest Czech basketball competition for women. The partial goal of the thesis is to find out and observe the evolution of number of foreign players participating in above stated twenty-year period. Methods: In our thesis we used a method of collecting secondary information, which means secondary statistical data analysis. Results: By data analysis we found out, that foreign players were more effective than Czech players in all monitored seasons while comparing played time and reached index of success. The number of foreign players in the highest league was gradually growing until reaching its peak in season 2014/2015. Keywords: globalization, migration in sport, basketball, Czech women's basketball league, foreign players, comparison, game performance

無 / The current study is aimed to more closely examine the gendered coverage for basketball in Taiwan’s newspapers. Newspaper coverage of the Jones Cup from 2007-2009 was content analyzed, along with in-depth interviews with the reporters and editors. The results revealed that quantitatively, news coverage on women’s basketball has greatly improved in comparison with data in the past literature. However, qualitatively, the gendered values proved, such as infantilization and sexualization, still exist and are embedded in sports news nowadays. The examples of better the reporting patterns for women’ws basketball were identified with the principle of emphasizing on sports performance. In addition, there are a few consensuses among the interviewees on the challenges and suggestions for women’s basketball in Taiwan, including (1) the current system, (2) marketing and (3) media relations. In short, the purpose of the current study provides and offers practical suggestions of how to fairly report women basketball games and other women sports.