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Young Pacific Male Rugby Players’ Perceptions and Experiences of Mental Wellbeing
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Implementation of effective alcohol control strategies is needed at large sports and entertainment events
Published 2012-02-01“…Events included rugby, rugby league and cricket matches, motor racing, rowing, horse racing, an outdoor music festival, and food and wine festivals. …”
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Match demands of female team sports: a scoping review
Published 2023-07-01“…Eighty-six articles were eligible for inclusion in this review, with 40 in soccer, 23 in rugby (6 rugby union, 3 rugby league, and 14 rugby sevens), 8 in field hockey, 8 in basketball, 6 in handball, and 1 in futsal. …”
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Parental safety concerns – a barrier to sport and physical activity in children?
Published 2004-10-01“…In boys, the most frequently discouraged sport was rugby league (23.2%), followed by rugby union (7.5%) and Australian rules football (2.8%). …”
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Contributors to negative biopsychosocial health or performance outcomes in rugby players (CoNBO): a systematic review and Delphi study protocol
Published 2022-12-01“…Within rugby codes (rugby league, rugby union and rugby sevens), within male and female cohorts across playing levels (full-time senior, part-time senior, age grade), this project aims to develop a consensus on contributors to negative biopsychosocial outcomes in rugby players (known as the CoNBO study) and establish stakeholder perceived importance of the identified contributors and barriers to their management. …”
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Improving Mental Performance in an Athletic Population with the Use of Ārepa<sup>®</sup>, a Blackcurrant Based Nootropic Drink: A Randomized Control Trial
Published 2020-04-01“…The aim of the investigation was to test the effect of Ārepa<sup>®</sup> a blackcurrant-based nootropic-drink also containing pine-bark and <span style="font-variant: small-caps;">l</span>-theanine (BC+), on mental clarity in a sport setting. Twenty-three rugby league players completed a cross-over design, randomized, double-blind, controlled trial. …”
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Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy (CTE) - An Update and Overview
Published 2023-08-01“…An exposure-response effect has been demonstrated in American football along with case reports in high profile sports including Australian rules football, rugby union, rugby league, soccer, and ice hockey. Despite intense media interest in the professional contact and collision sports in which CTE has been demonstrated, CTE has been increasingly identified in a wide array of amateur sporting and also non-sporting environments including military related blast trauma, assault, and falls in this heterogeneous condition. …”
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Pacific identity discourses on Twitter: constructing cyberspaces of belonging
Published 2023-07-01“…ABSTRACTThis article investigates the performance of Pacific identities on Twitter during a high-profile cultural and sporting event, Tonga and Australia’s first-ever rugby league test match in late 2018. More than 9000 tweets were analysed using quantitative and qualitative methods to map different publics orienting to the event on Twitter, including a Pacific diasporic public that emerged through locative practices of identity and cultural performance. …”
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Isometric Mid-Thigh Pull Performance in Rugby Players: A Systematic Literature Review
Published 2020-12-01“…Variability of force characteristics derived from the IMTP within similar populations (e.g., approximately 200% difference in peak force between samples of professional rugby league players) as well as large and unexpected overlaps between dissimilar populations, limit conclusions about force production capabilities relative to playing level, likely due to limitations and lack of standardization of IMTP procedures. …”
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Defining and quantifying fatigue in the rugby codes.
Published 2023-01-01“…The rugby codes (i.e., rugby union, rugby league, rugby sevens [termed 'rugby']) are team-sports that impose multiple complex physical, perceptual, and technical demands on players which leads to substantial player fatigue post-match. …”
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“It's just everywhere!” Children and parents discuss the marketing of sports wagering in Australia
Published 2016-10-01“…Methods: A mixed methods study of 152 parent/child (8–16 years) dyads was conducted at AFL (Australian Football League), NRL (National Rugby League), and soccer sporting sites in New South Wales and Victoria, Australia. …”
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A GNSS-based method to define athlete manoeuvrability in field-based team sports.
Published 2021-01-01“…Across a season, 10 Hz Global navigation satellite system (GNSS) devices were worn during matches by 62 athletes (Australian Football League [AFL]; n = 36, 17 matches, National Rugby League [NRL]; n = 26, 21 matches). To quantify manoeuvrability, tortuosity was calculated from the X and Y coordinates from match GNSS files (converted from latitude and longitude). …”
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Developing players for athlete leadership groups in professional football teams: Qualitative insights from head coaches and athlete leaders
Published 2022-01-01“…Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 16 head coaches and 14 players from leadership groups drawn from 17 teams across four professional football leagues (i.e., Super Rugby, National Rugby League, A League and Australian Football League) in Australia and New Zealand. …”
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Developing players for athlete leadership groups in professional football teams: Qualitative insights from head coaches and athlete leaders.
Published 2022-01-01“…Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 16 head coaches and 14 players from leadership groups drawn from 17 teams across four professional football leagues (i.e., Super Rugby, National Rugby League, A League and Australian Football League) in Australia and New Zealand. …”
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Can counter-advertising exposing alcohol sponsorship and harms influence sport spectators’ support for alcohol policies? An experimental study
Published 2023-02-01“…Methods A sample of 1,075 Australian adults aged 18–49 years who planned to watch an National Rugby League (NRL) State of Origin series game, featuring prominent alcohol sponsorship, was recruited through an online panel and randomly assigned to one of three conditions: control (neutral advertisement); counter-advertisement exposing alcohol harms; counter-advertisement exposing alcohol sponsorship and harms. …”
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Genetic Factors That Could Affect Concussion Risk in Elite Rugby
Published 2021-01-01“…Elite rugby league and union have some of the highest reported rates of concussion (mild traumatic brain injury) in professional sport due in part to their full-contact high-velocity collision-based nature. …”
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Alcohol and fast food sponsorship in sporting clubs with junior teams participating in the ‘Good Sports’ program: a cross‐sectional study
Published 2020-04-01“…In multivariate analyses, the odds of alcohol sponsorship among rugby league clubs was 7.4 (95%CI: 1.8–31.0, p=<0.006) that of AFL clubs, and clubs located in regional areas were more likely than those in major cities to receive fast food industry sponsorship (OR= 9.1; 95%CI: 1.0–84.0, p=0.05). …”
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Concussion-Associated Polygenic Profiles of Elite Male Rugby Athletes
Published 2022-05-01“…Due to the high-velocity collision-based nature of elite rugby league and union, the risk of sustaining a concussion is high. …”
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