For the love of 'sportswashing'; LIV Golf and Saudi Arabia's push for legitimacy in elite sport

L Davis, D Plumley, R Wilson - Managing sport and leisure, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Rationale: The purpose of this article is to provide an understanding of the emergence of LIV
Golf, a new tour in the sport of professional golf, funded by finances from the Saudi Arabian …

The adaptation of the live PDC darts event during the COVID-19 lockdown

L Davis - Managing Sport and Leisure, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
The COVID-19 outbreak led to the cancellation of sporting events across the world in the
spring of 2020 and forced billions of people across the globe to stay home and self-isolate …

How do low-paid athletes in the United States understand the meaning of the word “professional” in “professional athlete”?

CM Mcleod, T Chahardovali - Sport in Society, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Sport scholars and other industry stakeholders often narrowly focus on athletes' pay levels
when using the term 'professional athlete'. References also ignore athletes' perspectives …

'We can't participate like this at football, can we'? Exploring in-person performative prosumer fandom at live PDC darts events

L Davis, T Gibbons - Journal of Consumer Culture, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
The nature of prosumption is one of the most important areas of debate within the study of
contemporary consumer culture. David L. Andrews and George Ritzer highlighted how the …

Could prosthesis use provide a competitive advantage in darts?

J DeVillez, J Sabato, G Fiedler - Prosthesis, 2022 - mdpi.com
Competitive darts has become increasingly popular over the past few decades, and efforts
have been made to have the game recognized as an Olympic sport in the future. The raised …

No cheering in the background? Individual performance in professional darts during COVID-19

F Spilker, M Ötting - Journal of Quantitative Analysis in Sports, 2024 - degruyter.com
The COVID-19 pandemic has led to a global shutdown of sporting activities. While
professional sports competitions restarted in mid-2020, spectators were usually not allowed …

The impact of Fallon Sherrock and the increasing prominence of women within professional darts events: a call for future research

L Davis, C Phipps, S Pope - Managing Sport and Leisure, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
ABSTRACT Rationale/Purpose This positioning paper is a call to action for future research
regarding the roles of women in the male-dominated sport of professional darts. Women …

Gamesmanship in Professional Darts: A Response to Leota, Turp and Howe

J Cartlidge - Sport, Ethics and Philosophy, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
This paper evaluates Howe and Leota/Turp's accounts of gamesmanship by examining case
studies of gamesmanship from professional darts. While Leota and Turp make some …

Between the Oche and treble-twenty: darts as a “way of life” in contemporary London

NW Howe Bukowski - Sociological Focus, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
This article serves to answer the question,“What sustains the continued relevance of darts
for working-class men in postindustrial Britain?” Darts remains a deeply popular activity and …

Upper-limb joint kinematics analysis of accuracy dart throwing at different vertical targets between different level dart players

TY Huang, J Hamill, H Yang, WT Tang - Journal of Human Sport and …, 2024 - jhse.es
Darts has evolved from a traditional pub room game to a professional sport. More and more
people worldwide are participating in the sport of dart throwing. In order to enhance throwing …