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Item A Comparison of Massed and Distributed Practice on Free Throw Practices(Texas Tech University, 1972-05) Ford, Don RayNot Available.Item An analysis of the effect of mid-season trades on team performance in the National Basketball Association(2016-05) Anderson, Neil Timothy; Todd, Jan; Sparvero, Emily SOne of the most important duties of a sports manager is ensuring a team keeps winning to the best of its ability. If a team is performing poorly, the manager will typically take action to try and remedy the situation, usually through coaching/administrative changes or player trades. The more we can understand how these actions affect a team’s performance, the better we as managers can work to help our teams. Thus the purpose of this research was to gain a greater understanding of how mid-season player trades affect a team’s performance. Using simple statistical testing over a five-year period encompassing the 2010-11 season to the 2014-15 season, data was collected from all thirty teams each season to determine rates of improvement, decline, or no change in team performance following a trade. Comparisons were also made between the teams that participated in a significant trade and those that did not. Of the forty-seven NBA teams that had a trade, four were determined to have improved following their trade while one team was found to have declined. Of the ninety-five NBA teams that did not meet the requirements for a trade, five were determined to have improved after the trade deadline and five were determined to have declined. Overall, it was determined that there was no statistically significant difference in these rates of improvement, decline, or no change between the trade and non-trade teams. As such it seems that the only generalization that can be made about trading is that it likely will not affect team performance. Likewise, not trading typically will not affect team performance.Item Between practice and the classroom : the making of masculinity and race in the mis-education of Black male student-athletes on a college campus(2012-05) Yearwood, Gabby M. H.; Gordon, Edmund Tayloe; Franklin, Maria; Richardson, Matt; Smith, Christen; Vargas, JoãoThis project argues that American college sports involving Black male athletes (primarily football and men’s basketball) at Gulf Coast State University (GCSU) actively construct and impact local knowledge about Black masculinity in relation to white, male, hetero-normative systems of authority. These sports, in turn, then impact policy, administrative decisions, and teaching approaches as they relate to young Black men on a college campus. In other words, Black male college athletes on a white college campus offer the opportunity for a reinforcement of systems of authority through the pattern of de-stabilizing their subjectivity (as nothing more than physical entities) in order to provide a revenue-generating resource for the university. I posit that the positioning of Black males in this space as athletes and as students is strategic and intentional, when one takes into account the ongoing dynamic of the hegemonic positioning of white, male, hetero-normative value systems as the unmarked standard of social norms. That these contested meanings become significant within the realm of sport situates sport itself as another, often underutilized, space for social inquiry. I further argue that this categorization is heightened in the context of a predominantly white institution. Through ethnographic fieldwork, I explored the sport (mainly football and men’s basketball) and academic community at GCSU with the goal of understanding how high-profile and high-revenue sports and their participants become central to the understanding and expression of normalized ideas about race, gender, and sexuality. I reason that the predominantly white demography of GCSU, added to the uneven ratio of Black to white males on the football and basketball teams, creates perceptions about race and masculinity that factor into people’s everyday understanding of the term “student-athlete”. The term “student-athlete” becomes racialized and gendered in ways that continually make reference to Black male athletes differently than other students and student-athletes at the university. I believe these effects on the term then impacts the structural mechanisms that affect the daily lives of these Black male athletes both on and off the field, both inside and outside the classroom.Item Cagers(2013-12) Quiroz, Simon; Shea, Andrew Brendan; Lewis, Richard M., M.F.A.This report summarizes the script development, pre-production, production, and post- production stages of making the short film Cagers. The short was produced as my graduate thesis film in the Department of Radio-Television-Film at The University of Texas at Austin in partial fulfillment of my Master of Fine Arts degree in Film Production.Item Hooperchicks: Black Women, College Basketball and Identity Negotiation(2014-08-14) Clay, CharityThis project used in depth interviews with Black women who played Division I college basketball from1997-2007 to elucidate how they developed their racial, gender and athletic identities during adolescence, and how those identities are performed within the role of student athlete. My research shows that there are specific factors attributed the cultural significance basketball has in the black community and the increased visibility of women?s basketball during my participants? adolescence that position basketball as a reference group of Black women?s empowerment. I call my participants ?Black woman hoopers? to represent the conflation of race, gender and athletic identity. The qualities of Black woman hoopers include but are not limited to: strong work ethic, perseverance, value of teamwork/sisterhood, and self-confidence. Investigating my participants? college experiences at predominately white institutions revealed the following themes: the importance of having Black teammates and coaches to provide mentoring; exacerbated racial battle fatigue for participants with primarily white teammates and coaches; the development of a community of support extending beyond their teammates and coaches; and how the larger community of Black woman hoopers transcends individual teams and exists as a space for a wide array of representations of Black womanhood not constrained by Eurocentric standards of beauty and femininity. Framing inquiries into my participants? experiences after their college careers with the 2007 Don Imus incident in which he called women on the predominately Black Rutgers University women?s basketball team, ?Nappy headed hoes? revealed the extent to which my participants understood the negative perceptions of Black woman hoopers. It also allowed them to reflect on ways that their experiences as Black woman hoopers have equipped them to deal with similar stereotypes that exist in their current career fields. This research combats the silence of Black women athletes? voices and presents Basketball as a unique space where Black women, because they comprise a majority at elite levels, can celebrate and build solidarity that include the spectrum of representations of Black womanhood that extend beyond athletics.Item Integrating Texas athletics : the forgotten story of the first black basketball players(2011-05) Abston, Grant David; Dahlby, Tracy; Minutaglio, Bill; Todd, JaniceDuring a period in American history when the racial landscape was rapidly changing, racial advances in collegiate athletics were taking place across the South in the 1950s and 1960s. At the University of Texas, that process proved harder to achieve than many expected as it would take nearly two decades to integrate athletics following the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling that admitted blacks to the university in 1950. Caught in the middle of the decade-long struggle, as blacks finally began integrating various UT athletic teams, was a group of black basketball players whose story reflects the racial progress made not just in Austin, but also across the United States.Item Out on the court : progress for gay college basketball players comes in fits and starts(2015-05) Capraro, Joseph James; Bock, Mary Angela; Cash, Wanda GGay college athletes have often faced homophobia from fellow players, coaches, and others on campus. Barriers are still being broken; there have been just two out gay men's basketball players at the college and professional levels combined, and some conservative institutions continue to force gay students into the closet. LGBTQ and questioning youth are already at increased risk for suicide and drug abuse, and those in hostile environments are significantly more likely to do self-harm than those in supportive or neutral settings. The responsibility for care of these students lies in part with the coaches and schools that provide the arenas and uniforms. While at some schools policies have changed with the times, Baylor serves as a high-profile example of a university that remains hostile to LGBTQ students. This report examines the experiences of two former Baylor women's basketball players and one graduating University of Massachusetts player, who came out before this past season. Context will be established by examining studies done on scholastic and collegiate out gay athletes in 2002 and 2010.Item The Construction and Validation of a Basketball Skill Test(Texas Tech University, 1972-05) Antrim, Mary MargaretNot Available.Item The effect of coaching and motion picture study on the attitudes of elementary and junior high school basketball players(Texas Tech University, 1969-05) Graves, Francis AnneNot availableItem The effect of strength improvement on basketball shooting accuracy among high school girls(Texas Tech University, 1968-08) LeMoine, Mitchell BrooksNot availableItem The effects of massed and distributed practice on basketball free throw shooting(Texas Tech University, 1968-08) Clay, Reda FayeThe purpose of this study was to determine the effects of massed and distributed practice on the acquisition of skill in basketball free throw shooting.Item The effects of strength on the accuracy of basketball shooting(Texas Tech University, 1967-06) Coppedge, Norman GeraldNot availableItem The Effects of Three Types of Audiences on the Performance of Basketball Free Throw Shooting(Texas Tech University, 1971-08) Saunders, Delmagene VirginiaNot Available.Item The influence of identity theory and globalization on home court advantage in NBA and NCAA basketball(2013-08) Ajufo, Jeffrey; Roberts, Alden E.; Koch, Jerome R.Home court advantage is a phenomenon that many fans of sport believe wields a significant amount of influence in determining the performance of athletes during competition and, as a result, the outcome of a game. It is interesting and difficult to quantify how significant home court advantage is in professional sports, particularly professional basketball, compared to collegiate sports, more specifically, collegiate basketball.Item The relationship between running speed and lateral movement(Texas Tech University, 1969-05) Malaise, John WNot Available.