Kines 100 - Exam 2

• Lombardian Ethic: Winning isn't everything, it's the only thing
• form sport: competitor tries to achieve aesthetics, subjective judge/panel of judges
• aesthetics: beauty of well-developed body in motion, brilliant play, dramatic competition or unity of a performance
• Athens, 1896: First modern Olympic games
• Pierre de Coubertin: founder of modern Olympic games, Frenchman who strongly opposed female participation in Olympics
• quid pro quo: this for that
• game reasoning: cheating is rationalized with only "here and now"
• attrition: shedding model of game and sport
• Chicago Black Sox: Chicago White Sox team that intentionally threw the 1919 World Series against the Reds for money from a gambling syndicate
• John Nicholls' Theory of Motivation: "Individuals are motivated to demonstrate high ability; they are also motivated to avoid the demonstration of low ability"
• The Cycle Phenomenon: mastery of motor skills -> public demonstration of physical competence -> recognition/enjoyment -> adherence/persistence
• CBS/NBC/ABC: first sports broadcasters
• vicarious spectators: virtual sports fans
• functionalism: the need for pattern maintenance and tension management, integration, goal obtainment and adaptation
• conflict theory: sport generates and intensifies alienation, used as a tool for social control, promotes commercialism/materialism and encourages nationalism, militarism and sexism
• 1989 Australian Grand Prix: Road conditions were poor but the race went on
• First intercollegiate contest: 1852 for men in crew (Harvard vs. Yale)
• First women's intercollegiate contest: 1896 for women in basketball (Cal vs. Stanford)
• sport has an amateur ethos
• athletics has a professional ethos
• athlon: prize
• athlete: competitor for a prize
• hyper-physicality: allowed, promoted and rewarded in sport
• NCAA: founded in 1906
• remuneration: pay or other compensation in exchange for services performed
• instrumental: Bernard Suits said athletics are instrumental rather than autotelic because it focuses on the end goal rather than the process of achieving it
• USOC: United States Olympic Committee
• WCC: West Coast Conference
• WADA: World Anti-Doping Agency