The Nat'l Sports & Society Survey (NSASS) surveyed 3,993 US adults, focusing on sports-related behaviors, attitudes, and links to well-being. PI: Chris Knoester
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Glad to aid excellent inquiry by @jimbaumbach "...declining football participation is "a complicated issue" influenced by parental opinions and interests that run down cultural, political and socioeconomic lines. But the debate typically begins with head injuries..." @ChrrOSU
The number of high school football players on Long Island dropped 30% in a decade, a Newsday analysis found, with researchers blaming the decline on parental concerns about long-term head trauma. nwsdy.li/3VEahHz
From @NSASS2017 :“The differences in having athlete friends, based on private club or travel sports participation histories, appeared to increase among the youngest... This seems to speak to the increasingly all-encompassing nature of...travel sports participation" said Knoester
It’s changed American childhood for good. It’s also leaving millions of kids behind. slate.trib.al/de2yarc
"Some studies have shown that people who play heavy contact sports in their youth are more likely to commit violence later on."
*Based on linked @osuresearch summary of @NSASS2017 research, by @emnothn and Chris Knoester
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More than 100 young athletes will gather in Geneva, Ohio, this weekend for the Freedom 250 Patriot Games, an athletic competition that President Trump painted as proof of American exceptionalism but which critics compared to the dystopian "Hunger Games... trib.al/DoNljzm
Nice to speak w/ @DomMastrangelo1 for @thehill on politics, private equity, & youth sports. "It is hard to counteract this movement... Community investments, bolstered by congressional action, could be a way to offer some support.”
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“Our findings challenge the common notion that sports are inherently good.” An @OhioState study suggests that simply playing organized youth sports doesn’t reduce the likelihood of committing violence in one’s lifetime, and in some cases, may increase it. news.osu.edu/participating-i…
Nice to support @alexisbuisson critique in ep. 4 of @Mediapart series: Can "soccer" be a patriotic sport like any other? Historically, American sports (football, baseball, and hockey) have been used to glorify the homeland, the nation, and the military. mediapart.fr/journal/interna…
Related to youth sports participation trends: “There’s the glass-half-full story, that more people are being exposed to and participating...and the glass-half-empty story, that the increase is overwhelmingly a result of people playing and then dropping out.” Knoester observed.
As cities partner with developers to build new coaching and competition facilities for kids’ leagues, public options for outdoor recreation feel the strain. Read more: bloom.bg/4uCM9Rz
📷️: Garrett Rowland
"The explosive rise of club and travel teams, with children born in the 1990s three times as likely to participate in them as those born in the 1950s, according to a new study from Ohio State, which has led to a dearth of community coaches, said Barsotti." doi.org/10.1177/019372352513…
Philly wants more community sports programs for kids. What’s lacking? Dedicated coaches. ebx.sh/91UxtL
Nice to see integration of @NSASS2017 analyses and commentary from Chris McLeod and Chris Knoester, focusing on parental expectations, in this writeup of new GOALS data from the NCAA on NCAA college athletes’ own expectations of becoming a pro and/or Olympic athlete.
How many college athletes think they’ll become pros?
NCAA study reveals expectations on reaching the next level. | By @dennisromboy
New @NSASS2017 research by @emnothn and Chris Knoester on sports participation over the life course and the likelihood of committing acts of violence, published in @SSJ_Journal.
@Human_Kinetics @SportsSociety @ChrrOSU doi.org/10.1123/ssj.2025-014…
Subsequent results revealed that playing org youth sport and dropping out was uniquely and positively associated with ever committing violence. Associations with recent violence were apparently being driven by youth who first played organized sports during their teenage years.
As we wrap up another Academic Year, a few NSASS updates:
a) Congrats to Tristan Hoh & Neil Sampath for their @NSASS2017 research & presentations! Both presented wonderfully at the 8th @SportsSociety Undergrad Research Fair/6th Sports Analytics Conference! sportsandsociety.osu.edu/eve…
c) @SportsSociety released '25 Research report (sportsandsociety.osu.edu/res…), as it continues to emerge as a hub for fascinating, cutting-edge and impactful interdisciplinary sports & society work; with major NSASS investments and contributions
d) Finally, @LeeLower1 received Departmental seed funding to begin work on a National Disability & Sport Project, starting w/ 20 in-depth interviews & quantitative data analyses of @NSASS2017 respondents. Kelly Tanner & @ChrrOSU are supporting this exciting & important project.
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Brehm: Have youth sports gotten out of control? startribune.com/kids-sports-…
