Youth sports are beginning to model collegiate and professional sports.
TRUE
Most successful collegiate athletes say their worst experience as a youth or high school athlete was
The ride home from the games with parents
Parents with an active interest in sports are less likely to expose their children to sports at an early age.
FALSE
Families who engage in recreational sports experience higher levels of family resilience.
TRUE
How a child reacts to the sport environment will be a direct reflection of what he or she observes from parents and coaches.
TRUE
It is uncommon for sport to constitute a central role in parent-child interaction.
FALSE
Parents are likely to push sports on their children as a way to live vicariously through them.
TRUE
Traveling time was found to be a factor that influenced a parent's decision to have their child compete.
FALSE
Sports attrition rates are on the rise, with most youth participants dropping out by age 13.
TRUE
Society has shifted from a game- to a WHAT-based culture
Sports
Research has shown that single parent or blended families were more likely to participate in organized sports.
FALSE
Children involved in youth sports find themselves less likely to feel pressure and abuse from coaches, parents and fans.
FALSE
Arizona State University fans use the Curtain of Distraction to do what?
...
Due to the increased likelihood that parents place on athletic competition, the potential for sports rage has also increased.
TRUE
Negative coach behavior appears to influence negative modeling by players.
FALSE
Sports serves as an important alternative to nonphysical alternatives, and according to the text, most notably:
Video Games
When parents demonstrate low involvement, the athlete is likely to experience heightened uncertainty and anxiety.
True4-5 year
The rise of vulgar behavior on the part of parents commonly occurs at events designed for what age group?
4-5 year olds
True or false: The text demands that we think of athletic performances as having an influence over interpretations of identity like gender or race.
T
Jason Collins, the NBA's first active member of a male team sport to come out, wrote an open letter in 2013 about being gay that was published in what magazine?
Sports Illustrated
True or false: Table tennis is one of the most popular Paralympic sports.
TRUE
Brittney Griner spoke publicly about her sexuality in 2013 after being told not to speak about it while playing what sport at Baylor University?
Basketball
Chapter 9 focuses on the relationship between sport and the brain.
FALSE
The famous brawl between the Detroit Pistons and the Indiana Pacers, known as the "Malice at the Palace," led to the NBA restoring order by implementing:
Dress Policy
True or false: According to the text, actual Native Americans see elements of their culture being taken out of context at best and outright disrespected at worst.
TRUE
South African athlete Caster Semenya competes in what sport?
Track and Field
True or false: In the book, You've Got to Have Balls to Make It in This League, Pam Postema wrote about the criticism she faced as the first woman to umpire a Major League Baseball game (and being fired.)
TRUE
When WNBA's Sheryl Swoopes came out as a lesbian, she noted that her sexuality had little to no effect on her on-court performance.
TRUE
True or false: The athlete whose coming out story has likely garnered the most attention is:
Michael Sam
Just as Jackie Robinson broke the MLB's color barrier in 1947, Michael Sam became the first openly gay player to be drafted in what league
NFL
True or false: the NFL has responded to the excess of African American players by enacting harsher fines for their touchdown performances.
TRUE
True or false: According to the text, there is a study out in England showing that essentially straight athletes act gayer than gay athletes in the locker room.
TRUE
True or false: There is considerable support for the idea that sport reinforces a male/female, masculine/feminine essentialism.
TRUE
Wheelchair rugby is often termed:
Murderball
Golfer Casey Martin successfully sued the PGA Tour, citing the Americans with Disabilities Act, for the right to use WHAT when he played in events?
Golf cart
True or false: Tiger Woods has identified himself as "Cablanasian" in order to deny the relevance of race altogether.
TRUE