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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 Sport and social structures : building community on campuses(2010-05) Warner, Stacy Marie; Dixon, Marlene A., 1970-; Chalip, Laurence; Green, B. Christine; Hunt, Thomas; Streeter, CalvinStudent affairs personnel are often charged with the task of creating a strong sense of community (SOC) on university campuses. Sport is among one of the many extracurricular activities that historically has been used to meet this need for community among students. Yet, how and when a sense of community is created within a sport context has not been appropriately addressed in literature. Utilizing a symbolic interactionalist theoretical framework, this study employed a grounded theory approach and uncovered the necessary factors for creating a sense of community within two intercollegiate sport settings. First, 21 former university sport club participants were interviewed regarding their experiences. The results revealed that Common Interest, Leadership Opportunities, Amateurism/ Voluntary Activity, and Competition were the most critical components to creating a sense of community. These results along with the results of Warner and Dixon’s (in review; see Appendix F) sense of community study among varsity athletes, which concluded that Administrative Consideration, Leadership Opportunities, Equity in Administrative Decisions, Competition, and Social Spaces were the key factors to foster a sense of community, were then used to guide focus groups. Eight focus groups consisting of 39 current varsity and sport club athletes were then conducted to further examine and explain the differences and similarities that emerged between the two sense of community in sport models. The results propose a broad based sense of community within sport theory that considers the contextual contingencies surrounding an athlete-driven versus a professionally-administered sport model. The results contribute to community building and sport management theory, and provide practical solutions for enhancing the intercollegiate sport experience. The implications and philosophical differences between an athlete-directed sport experiences versus a more formalized and structured sport model are also discussed.