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European Journal of Sport Science     Hybrid Journal   (Followers: 76)
Journal of Orthopaedic & Sports Physical Therapy     Full-text available via subscription   (Followers: 75)
International Journal of Applied Exercise Physiology     Open Access   (Followers: 55)
American Journal of Sports Science and Medicine     Open Access   (Followers: 48)
International Journal of Sport and Exercise Psychology     Hybrid Journal   (Followers: 46)
BMC Sports Science, Medicine and Rehabilitation     Open Access   (Followers: 40)
Journal of Science and Medicine in Sport     Hybrid Journal   (Followers: 39)
Clinical Journal of Sport Medicine     Hybrid Journal   (Followers: 37)
International Journal of Sports Science & Coaching     Hybrid Journal   (Followers: 35)
ACTIVE : Journal of Physical Education, Sport, Health and Recreation     Open Access   (Followers: 31)
International Review of Sport and Exercise Psychology     Hybrid Journal   (Followers: 26)
Journal of Exercise Science & Fitness     Open Access   (Followers: 26)
International Journal of Exercise Science     Open Access   (Followers: 25)
International Journal of Sports Science     Open Access   (Followers: 25)
Journal of Sports Science and Medicine     Open Access   (Followers: 25)
International Review for the Sociology of Sport     Hybrid Journal   (Followers: 24)
International Journal of Performance Analysis in Sport     Full-text available via subscription   (Followers: 24)
Qualitative Research in Sport and Exercise     Hybrid Journal   (Followers: 23)
Journal of Sport and Health Science     Open Access   (Followers: 23)
Comparative Exercise Physiology     Hybrid Journal   (Followers: 22)
Journal of Sport Psychology in Action     Hybrid Journal   (Followers: 19)
International Journal of the History of Sport     Hybrid Journal   (Followers: 18)
Qualitative Research in Sport, Exercise and Health     Hybrid Journal   (Followers: 18)
International Journal of Kinesiology and Sports Science     Open Access   (Followers: 18)
Journal of Human Kinetics     Open Access   (Followers: 17)
Open Access Journal of Sports Medicine     Open Access   (Followers: 16)
Journal of Human Sport and Exercise     Open Access   (Followers: 16)
Sport, Exercise, and Performance Psychology     Full-text available via subscription   (Followers: 16)
Sport Science Review     Open Access   (Followers: 14)
Orthopaedic Journal of Sports Medicine     Open Access   (Followers: 14)
Advances in Physical Education     Open Access   (Followers: 13)
Journal of Sport Sciences and Fitness     Open Access   (Followers: 13)
International Sport Coaching Journal     Hybrid Journal   (Followers: 13)
Soccer & Society     Hybrid Journal   (Followers: 12)
Journal of Sport History     Full-text available via subscription   (Followers: 12)
Journal of Physical Education, Recreation & Dance     Full-text available via subscription   (Followers: 12)
Sport Journal     Open Access   (Followers: 12)
Sociology of Sport Journal     Hybrid Journal   (Followers: 12)
Annals of Applied Sport Science     Open Access   (Followers: 12)
International Journal of Sport Policy     Hybrid Journal   (Followers: 11)
Sport in History     Hybrid Journal   (Followers: 10)
Isokinetics and Exercise Science     Hybrid Journal   (Followers: 10)
Sport History Review     Hybrid Journal   (Followers: 10)
The Sport Psychologist     Hybrid Journal   (Followers: 10)
Journal of Science and Cycling     Open Access   (Followers: 9)
Curriculum Studies in Health and Physical Education     Hybrid Journal   (Followers: 9)
Physical Culture and Sport. Studies and Research     Open Access   (Followers: 8)
Biomedical Human Kinetics     Open Access   (Followers: 8)
Sport, Business and Management : An International Journal     Hybrid Journal   (Followers: 8)
International Journal of Sport Communication     Hybrid Journal   (Followers: 8)
Communication & Sport     Hybrid Journal   (Followers: 8)
Perceptual and Motor Skills     Full-text available via subscription   (Followers: 8)
Journal of Sport & Tourism     Hybrid Journal   (Followers: 7)
Journal of Policy Research in Tourism, Leisure and Events     Hybrid Journal   (Followers: 7)
Australian and New Zealand Sports Law Journal     Full-text available via subscription   (Followers: 7)
Journal of the Philosophy of Sport     Hybrid Journal   (Followers: 7)
Journal of Sports Economics     Hybrid Journal   (Followers: 6)
Physician and Sportsmedicine     Open Access   (Followers: 6)
Berkeley Journal of Entertainment and Sports Law     Open Access   (Followers: 6)
Journal of Athletic Enhancement     Hybrid Journal   (Followers: 6)
Sport and Fitness Journal     Open Access   (Followers: 6)
Journal of Physical Education and Sports     Open Access   (Followers: 6)
Journal of Intercollegiate Sport     Open Access   (Followers: 5)
Sport Management Education Journal     Hybrid Journal   (Followers: 5)
Journal of Applied Sport Management: Research that Matters     Full-text available via subscription   (Followers: 5)
International Journal of Computer Science in Sport     Open Access   (Followers: 5)
Sports Coaching Review     Hybrid Journal   (Followers: 5)
Journal of Science in Sport and Exercise     Hybrid Journal   (Followers: 5)
International Turfgrass Society Research Journal     Free   (Followers: 5)
Asian Journal of Sport and Exercise Psychology     Open Access   (Followers: 5)
Journal of Sports Media     Full-text available via subscription   (Followers: 4)
Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers Part P: Journal of Sports Engineering and Technology     Hybrid Journal   (Followers: 4)
Health Promotion & Physical Activity     Open Access   (Followers: 4)
Coaching Psykologi : The Danish Journal of Coaching Psychology     Open Access   (Followers: 4)
Asia Pacific Journal of Sport and Social Science     Hybrid Journal   (Followers: 4)
Kinesiology Review     Hybrid Journal   (Followers: 4)
NINE : A Journal of Baseball History and Culture     Full-text available via subscription   (Followers: 4)
Pace Intellectual Property, Sports & Entertainment Law Forum     Open Access   (Followers: 4)
African Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology and Sport Facilitation     Full-text available via subscription   (Followers: 4)
Facta Universitatis, Series : Physical Education and Sport     Open Access   (Followers: 4)
International Journal of Recreation and Sports Science     Open Access   (Followers: 4)
Footwear Science     Hybrid Journal   (Followers: 3)
Sports Technology     Hybrid Journal   (Followers: 3)
Strategies : A Journal for Physical and Sport Educators     Hybrid Journal   (Followers: 3)
Quest     Hybrid Journal   (Followers: 3)
International Sports Law Journal     Hybrid Journal   (Followers: 3)
Sports     Open Access   (Followers: 3)
Seton Hall Journal of Sports and Entertainment Law     Open Access   (Followers: 3)
PALAESTRA : Adapted Sport, Physical Education, and Recreational Therapy     Full-text available via subscription   (Followers: 3)
Acta Facultatis Educationis Physicae Universitatis Comenianae     Open Access   (Followers: 3)
Journal of Amateur Sport     Open Access   (Followers: 3)
Journal of Hospitality, Leisure, Sport & Tourism Education     Full-text available via subscription   (Followers: 3)
Journal of Tourism, Hospitality and Sports     Open Access   (Followers: 3)
Journal of Physical Education and Sport Sciences     Open Access   (Followers: 3)
International Journal of Sport, Exercise & Training Sciences     Open Access   (Followers: 3)
European Journal for Sport and Society     Hybrid Journal   (Followers: 3)
Frontiers in Sports and Active Living     Open Access   (Followers: 3)
Scandinavian Journal of Sport and Exercise Psychology     Open Access   (Followers: 3)
Journal of Physical Activity Research     Open Access   (Followers: 3)
German Journal of Exercise and Sport Research : Sportwissenschaft     Hybrid Journal   (Followers: 2)
Sportverletzung · Sportschaden     Hybrid Journal   (Followers: 2)
Podium Sport, Leisure and Tourism Review     Open Access   (Followers: 2)
Sporting Traditions     Full-text available via subscription   (Followers: 2)
Arena-Journal of Physical Activities     Open Access   (Followers: 2)
Revista Andaluza de Medicina del Deporte     Open Access   (Followers: 2)
Timisoara Physical Education and Rehabilitation Journal     Open Access   (Followers: 2)
UNLV Gaming Research & Review Journal     Open Access   (Followers: 2)
Sport and Art     Open Access   (Followers: 2)
Sports Medicine International Open     Open Access   (Followers: 2)
Journal of Physical Education Health and Sport     Open Access   (Followers: 2)
Research Quarterly for Exercise and Sport     Hybrid Journal   (Followers: 2)
Journal of Physical Education and Sports Science     Open Access   (Followers: 2)
Journal of Athlete Development and Experience     Open Access   (Followers: 2)
Sport Science and Health     Open Access   (Followers: 2)
Sports Law and Governance Journal     Open Access   (Followers: 2)
Reabilitacijos Mokslai : Slauga, Kineziterapija, Ergoterapija     Open Access   (Followers: 2)
Indonesian Journal of Sport Management     Open Access   (Followers: 2)
Football(s) : Histoire, Culture, Économie, Société     Open Access   (Followers: 2)
Managing Sport and Leisure     Hybrid Journal   (Followers: 1)
College Athletics and The Law     Hybrid Journal   (Followers: 1)
Movement & Sport Sciences : Science & Motricité     Full-text available via subscription   (Followers: 1)
Cultura, Ciencia y Deporte     Open Access   (Followers: 1)
International Journal of Golf Science     Open Access   (Followers: 1)
Educación física y deporte     Open Access   (Followers: 1)
Acta Kinesiologiae Universitatis Tartuensis     Open Access   (Followers: 1)
Revista Internacional de Medicina y Ciencias de la Actividad Física y del Deporte : International Journal of Medicine and Science of Physical Activity and Sport     Open Access   (Followers: 1)
RBNE - Revista Brasileira de Nutrição Esportiva     Open Access   (Followers: 1)
Jeffrey S. Moorad Sports Law Journal     Open Access   (Followers: 1)
Marquette Sports Law Review     Open Access   (Followers: 1)
Sportis. Scientific Journal of School Sport, Physical Education and Psychomotricity     Open Access   (Followers: 1)
Journal of Sports Medicine and Allied Health Sciences : Official Journal of the Ohio Athletic Trainers Association     Open Access   (Followers: 1)
Jurnal Sport Science     Open Access   (Followers: 1)
Kinesiology : International Journal of Fundamental and Applied Kinesiology     Open Access   (Followers: 1)
Ciencia y Deporte     Open Access   (Followers: 1)
Corpoconsciência     Open Access   (Followers: 1)
Journal for the Measurement of Physical Behaviour     Hybrid Journal   (Followers: 1)
Journal of Global Sport Management     Hybrid Journal   (Followers: 1)
Science and Medicine in Football     Hybrid Journal   (Followers: 1)
Arquivos em Movimento     Open Access   (Followers: 1)
Baltic Journal of Sport and Health Sciences     Open Access   (Followers: 1)
Laisvalaikio Tyrimai     Open Access   (Followers: 1)
Video Journal of Sports Medicine     Open Access  
Forum Kinder- und Jugendsport : Zeitschrift für Forschung, Transfer und Praxisdialog     Hybrid Journal  
SPORTIVE : Journal Of Physical Education, Sport and Recreation     Open Access  
eJRIEPS : Ejournal de la recherche sur l'intervention en éducation physique et sport     Open Access  
SPORT TK-Revista EuroAmericana de Ciencias del Deporte     Open Access  
Juara : Jurnal Olahraga     Open Access  
Arrancada     Open Access  
Al-Rafidain Journal For Sport Sciences     Open Access  
Al.Qadisiya journal for the Sciences of Physical Education     Open Access  
New Approaches in Sport Sciences     Open Access  
Forum for Idræt, Historie og Samfund     Open Access  
Cerdas Sifa Pendidikan : Sport Education     Open Access  
Quality in Sport     Open Access  
Journal of Motor Learning and Development     Hybrid Journal  
Sri Lankan Journal of Sports and Exercise Medicine     Open Access  
Sport i Turystyka : Środkowoeuropejskie Czasopismo Naukowe     Open Access  
Revista Intercontinental de Gestão Desportiva     Open Access  
Open Sports Sciences Journal     Open Access  
Ágora para la Educación Física y el Deporte     Open Access  
Journal of Physical Education and Human Movement     Open Access  
Journal of Sports Medicine and Therapy     Open Access  
Turkish Journal of Sport and Exercise     Open Access  
Gelanggang Pendidikan Jasmani Indonesia     Open Access  
Revista Brasileira do Esporte Coletivo     Open Access  
International Journal of Science Culture and Sport     Open Access  
SIPATAHOENAN : South-East Asian Journal for Youth, Sports & Health Education     Open Access  
Research on ٍEducational Sport     Open Access  
Translational Journal of the American College of Sports Medicine     Hybrid Journal  
Conexões     Open Access  
Ulusal Spor Bilimleri Dergisi / Journal of National Sport Sciences     Open Access  
Türkiye Spor Bilimleri Dergisi / Turkish Journal of Sports Science     Open Access  
Spor Eğitim Dergisi     Open Access  
Spor Bilimleri Araştırmaları Dergisi     Open Access  
Spor ve Performans Araştırmaları Dergisi / Ondokuz Mayıs University Journal of Sports and Performance Researches     Open Access  
Spor Bilimleri Dergisi / Hacettepe Journal of Sport Sciences     Open Access  
Jurnal Keolahragaan     Open Access  
Revista Iberoamericana de Ciencias de la Actividad Física y el Deporte     Open Access  
Physical Education of Students     Open Access  
Jendela Olahraga     Open Access  
Jurnal Abdimas     Open Access  
International Journal of Sports Marketing and Sponsorship     Hybrid Journal  
Retos : Nuevas Tendencias en Educación Física, Deportes y Recreación     Open Access  
Martial Arts Studies     Open Access  
Sportphysio     Hybrid Journal  
Citius, Altius, Fortius     Open Access  
Слобожанський науково-спортивний вісник     Open Access  
Educación Física y Ciencia     Open Access  
RBFF - Revista Brasileira de Futsal e Futebol     Open Access  
Materiales para la historia del deporte     Open Access  
FairPlay, Revista de Filosofia, Ética y Derecho del Deporte     Open Access  
Revista de Artes Marciales Asiáticas     Open Access  
mensch & pferd international     Full-text available via subscription  
RICYDE. Revista Internacional de Ciencias del Deporte     Open Access  
Revista de Psicología del Deporte     Open Access  
MHSalud : Movimiento Humano y Salud     Open Access  
Cuadernos de Psicologia del Deporte     Open Access  
Zeitschrift für Sportpsychologie     Hybrid Journal  
Polish Journal of Sport and Tourism     Open Access  
Therapeutic Recreation Journal     Full-text available via subscription  

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Journal of Sport History
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  • Special Admission: How College Sports Recruitment Favors White Suburban
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      Abstract: If this book serves as a reader's first entry into the perils of college athletics, they will not be able to look at any sporting event the same. Special Admission coincides with the timing of Operation Varsity Blues, the college acceptance scandal orchestrated by Rich Singer. Kirsten Hextrum contends the fact that families have been paying for their children to be admitted to schools for decades based on false athletic careers is not a big transgression as college admissions have always been "rigged" (xi). She begins the book by assessing the rise of Caylin Louis Moore, a Black male football player from Los Angeles who attended Texas Christian University. He later became a Rhodes Scholar in 2017. Such an honor led ... Read More
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           (review)

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      Abstract: Roller Derby has a long and fascinating history. It began as an endurance fad in the 1930s, a Depression Era entertainment, and then transformed into a full-contact game with an appeal to both in-person spectators and television audiences. Yet it eventually evolved into a women's sport with a feminist do-it-yourself mentality. Michella M. Marino's Roller Derby: The History of an American Sport expertly weaves a chronological story of this trajectory, providing a "contextual history of the sport through a critical feminist lens" (5). This contextualization is bolstered by one of the strongest parts of this text: Marino's use of oral history interviews from a variety of people involved with the sport from a number of ... Read More
      PubDate: 2023-04-13T00:00:00-05:00
       
  • Women, Horse Sports, and Liberation: Equestrianism and Britain from the
           18th to the 20th Centuries by Erica Munkwitz (review)

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      Abstract: In Women, Horse Sports, and Liberation, Erica Munkwitz examines British women's involvement in equestrianism from the eighteenth through the twentieth century. In chronological order, she examines British women's participation in horse sports and how such involvement shaped—and was shaped by—gender, social, cultural, and sporting ideals. Muntwitz begins presenting women's participation in hunting, relating it to the sporting revolution in Britain, which spanned 1772 to 1825. Women have a long history of participating in hunting, and the late eighteenth century was an era of widespread and talented female horsemanship. Yet female numbers decreased in the first part of the nineteenth century as a consequence of the ... Read More
      PubDate: 2023-04-13T00:00:00-05:00
       
  • Tropic of Football: The Long and Perilous Journey of Samoans to the NFL by
           Rob Ruck (review)

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      Abstract: The tiny island of Independent Samoa (pop. 200,000) is literally brimming with elite football talent. According to one statistic, athletes of Samoan descent are forty times more likely to play in the NFL than any other demographic group. Some of the brightest stars include Jesse Sapolu, Junior Seau, Troy Polamalu, Marcus Mariota, and Tua Tagovailoa. The most recent member of this fraternity to be inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame (HOF) was Polamalu in 2020. Wearing a vibrant purple lei draped over his newly pressed gold jacket, the ex-Steeler safety cited his Polynesian roots as the reason for his football success: "I come from a culture where discipline, humility, and respect are not only the foundation ... Read More
      PubDate: 2023-04-13T00:00:00-05:00
       
  • Tennis: A History from American Amateurs to Global Professionals by Greg
           Ruth (review)

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      Abstract: The game of tennis, for many years somewhat neglected by sport historians, has recently become the focus of greater attention among academics. Its global importance has been significantly underlined in the forty-five wide-ranging chapters contained in the 2019 Routledge Handbook of Tennis: History, Culture and Politics. One of the leading themes in the developing literature on tennis has been the complex, fluctuating relationship between amateurs and professionals. In the early years of lawn tennis during the late nineteenth century, with the game spreading rapidly across large parts of the world, the amateur notion that it should be enjoyed for itself and not for financial reward developed a powerful hold. The ... Read More
      PubDate: 2023-04-13T00:00:00-05:00
       
  • Amos Alonzo Stagg: College Football's Greatest Pioneer by David E. Summer
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      Abstract: The stated goal of Amos Alonzo Stagg: College Football's Greatest Pioneer is to be a definitive biography from birth to death. The picture Summer paints is of an honest and highly competitive man. Longevity is the theme, both in Stagg's career and life. The challenge of the book is that Amos Alonzo Stagg lived for 102 years and had a major impact on college football, the University of Chicago, and to a lesser extent, baseball, basketball, and other schools. How can the definitive biography be written of such a man in a mere 220 pages'The book is mostly organized chronologically, with some diversions to talk about interesting and impactful players Stagg had and the sports besides football that he coached. The story ... Read More
      PubDate: 2023-04-13T00:00:00-05:00
       
  • Britain's Olympic Women: A History by Jean Williams (review)

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      Abstract: In recent years, scholars have considered many facets of British sports. They have gone beyond the simple narrative of great moments and characters from the worlds of football, cricket, and rugby to consider the ways in which the British military used sports in its training programs. Other studies have introduced readers to the way that noncombatant British men used sport to validate their masculinity during World War II and to examine the role of sport in the expansion of the British Empire and how men from Trinidad and Nigeria used proficiency in sport to assert their refusal to acquiesce to their colonial status. Occasionally, those studies alluded to women's role, but only in rare cases have the experiences of ... Read More
      PubDate: 2023-04-13T00:00:00-05:00
       
 
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