Sport events and residential happiness: The case of two non-mega sport events

M Taks, M Littlejohn, R Snelgrove… - Journal of Global Sport …, 2016 - Taylor & Francis
This contribution explores whether the hosting of two non-mega sport events affected the
happiness of residents (non-attendees) in the host community, and if these feelings differed …

Sport events and happiness: Towards the development of a measuring instrument

M Littlejohn, M Taks, L Wood, R Snelgrove - World Leisure Journal, 2016 - Taylor & Francis
The purpose of this study was to create a measuring instrument to capture happiness in the
context of events and test it in the context of two non-mega-sport events. Three groups of …

Dissecting the survivors–how the age of a club contributes to the ability of a team to maintain the top position in the European soccer leagues

PR Mourao - Science & Sports, 2017 - Elsevier
Objectives To test the hypothesis that the age of a club is a major determinant of the higher
survival rates exhibited by European soccer teams. News We studied 185 teams from the …