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Canadian journal of history of sport and physical education, 1978
Canadian Journal of History of Sport, 1983
Just before Canadiens and Leafs played at Maple Leaf Gardens Saturday night [March 7, 1936], the ... more Just before Canadiens and Leafs played at Maple Leaf Gardens Saturday night [March 7, 1936], the teams lined up at the centre ice opposite each other and the audience rose with bared heads and stood in silence while the big clock ticked off one minute« It was another testimonial to the memory of the late Lou Marsh.1
BMC Public Health, 2019
Background: In Canada, a majority of children and adults are insufficiently active for health gai... more Background: In Canada, a majority of children and adults are insufficiently active for health gains, and about one in seven children and over 20% of adults are overweight or obese. Overweight and obesity are risk factors for many chronic diseases in both adults and children and can result in lower quality and quantity of life. Children whose parents are overweight or obese are more likely to become overweight themselves. Thus, parent/child interventions are important for reducing obesity and promoting long-term healthy weights among members of the family unit. Programs using Co-Active coaching have resulted in positive behaviour changes among adults with overweight/ obesity; however, little research has explored the effects of Co-Active coaching on parents, and the consequent impact on the family unit (i.e. all parents and children in the same household). This protocol paper provides a detailed methodological account of a coaching-based program targeting parent and child dyads, in hopes of enhancing health behaviours within the family unit. Methods: Using a randomized controlled trial design, the researchers aim to identify the impact of coaching plus education (intervention) compared to education only (control) on parents with overweight/obesity and their children (ages 2.5-10, of any weight). A total of 50 dyads are being recruited and randomly assigned using a 1:1 ratio into the control or intervention group. The control group receive 6 webinar-based education sessions focused on physical activity and nutrition. The intervention group receive the same education sessions and nine, 20-min telephone-based sessions with a certified coach. Coaching and health education sessions are conducted with the parent/guardian of the dyad. This paper provides a detailed methodological account of this program. Discussion: The expected findings from this research will advance coaching literature, research, and practice on this topic by determining whether coaching and education are more effective than education alone at producing behaviour changes among a family unit. If proven effective, this approach may be applied more broadly through public health interventionists to parent and child populations in hopes of affecting change with both individuals and their families. Trial registration: ISRCTN ISRCTN69091372. Retrospectively registered
"Sport in Canada: A History" examines the influence of religion, politics, economy, the... more "Sport in Canada: A History" examines the influence of religion, politics, economy, the military, gender, race, and social class on sport. The narrative extends from initial contact between Europeans and Aboriginals through to the present day, focusing on the impact of technology, training, sport science, professional coaching, and massive government and corporate funding. Specific topical attention is given to the organization of sport in Montreal, case studies on the emergence on a national level of lacrose and baseball, significant sporting personalities, and to the idea of amateurism as an organizing principle in early Canadian sport. The book will also include coverage of the impact of leisure sport, and early institutions important to the development of the foundation of sport (taverns for example), as well as the issue of masculinity as a value system and its profound impact on sport in Canada.
This paper forms part of a panel presentation and discussion that re-evaluates the Summit Series ... more This paper forms part of a panel presentation and discussion that re-evaluates the Summit Series from a more critical perspective than the nostalgic rhetoric of the recent, 2012, 40th anniversary of the event. This part of the panel presentation will examine this question: What factors have served to enshrine the Series to the Mythic and Mono-mythic Levels? Evidence utilized includes game-films from the series; the collective rhetoric of secondary sources such as 27 Days in Sept, Face Off at the Summit, Hockey Nite in Moscow, The Days Canada Stood Still, Hockey Showdown, and Shooting for Glory; film analysis such as the 2006 Canada:Russia ’72 CBC documentary and Brett Kashmere’s video essay/documentary Valery’s Ankle; and selected newspaper media reflections/renderings of the games in the Series. The argument presented is that the Series encapsulated a whorl of deeply hallowed elements that coagulated into making the Series larger than myth. The paper explores issues such as the mythic process, archetypal patterns (Snow White and the 7 Canuck ‘Dwarfs’ and the evil-witch of Communism, for example), the graphic and the iconographic, narrative richness and meta-narrative (Esposito’s ‘rant’ compared to King Henry V’s St Crispin’s day exhortation to his troops preceding the Battle of Agincourt in Shakespeare’s King Henry V), and cultural context and texts such as the Cold War, movies like Deliverance and The Godfather, and the meaning of Foster Hewitt’s “Henderson Has Scored for Canada,” regarding the shot not-heard round the world. The significance of this paper to our understanding of sport history is that it will be rendered in a panel that looks critically at a watershed – or was it – event in Canadian sport. This paper and those of the other panelists will provide a unique set of perspectives on the Series beyond the realm of the endless rhetoric of nostalgia
Would it be heresy, hyperbole or honesty to refer to Jim Thorpe as the Lionel Conacher of the Uni... more Would it be heresy, hyperbole or honesty to refer to Jim Thorpe as the Lionel Conacher of the United States? Any attempt to compare these two athletes would be without purpose or merit. However, Canadian and American sportswriters in the 1920s delighted in such parallels in obvious efforts to add superlatives to Conacher's career. l Typically, the latter athlete was hailed as the "Jim Thorpe of Canada," but at least one American journalist was so im-pressed with Conacher's athletic prowess that he marshalled considerable evi-dence to refer to Lionel Conacher as the "world's greatest athlete." 2 Much more significant than attempts at comparing Conacher to Thorpe is the out-standing point of contrast between the two men. The name, Thorpe (even the sound of the word exudes the feeling of strength and power), is a household word, synonymous with athletic excellence, south and north of the forty-ninth parallel. The name, Conacher, is shrouded in the mystic...
International journal of evidence based coaching and mentoring, 2020
This qualitative study explored the coaching-related experiences of clients (parents who were ove... more This qualitative study explored the coaching-related experiences of clients (parents who were overweight/obese) and coaches who participated in a 3-month obesity intervention. Semistructured interviews were conducted at multiple time points and were audio-recorded and analysed by question and via inductive content analysis. Clients reported increased accountability, goal setting skills, awareness, and external support in relation to health behaviours. Coaches shared tools they utilised, insights from working with this population, and advice for future coaches. This research informs the client-coach relationship; insights from both parties will allow researchers to create effective programming for this population.
Canadian Journal of History of Sport, 1988
Canadian journal of history of sport and physical education, 1978
Canadian Journal of History of Sport, 1983
Just before Canadiens and Leafs played at Maple Leaf Gardens Saturday night [March 7, 1936], the ... more Just before Canadiens and Leafs played at Maple Leaf Gardens Saturday night [March 7, 1936], the teams lined up at the centre ice opposite each other and the audience rose with bared heads and stood in silence while the big clock ticked off one minute« It was another testimonial to the memory of the late Lou Marsh.1
BMC Public Health, 2019
Background: In Canada, a majority of children and adults are insufficiently active for health gai... more Background: In Canada, a majority of children and adults are insufficiently active for health gains, and about one in seven children and over 20% of adults are overweight or obese. Overweight and obesity are risk factors for many chronic diseases in both adults and children and can result in lower quality and quantity of life. Children whose parents are overweight or obese are more likely to become overweight themselves. Thus, parent/child interventions are important for reducing obesity and promoting long-term healthy weights among members of the family unit. Programs using Co-Active coaching have resulted in positive behaviour changes among adults with overweight/ obesity; however, little research has explored the effects of Co-Active coaching on parents, and the consequent impact on the family unit (i.e. all parents and children in the same household). This protocol paper provides a detailed methodological account of a coaching-based program targeting parent and child dyads, in hopes of enhancing health behaviours within the family unit. Methods: Using a randomized controlled trial design, the researchers aim to identify the impact of coaching plus education (intervention) compared to education only (control) on parents with overweight/obesity and their children (ages 2.5-10, of any weight). A total of 50 dyads are being recruited and randomly assigned using a 1:1 ratio into the control or intervention group. The control group receive 6 webinar-based education sessions focused on physical activity and nutrition. The intervention group receive the same education sessions and nine, 20-min telephone-based sessions with a certified coach. Coaching and health education sessions are conducted with the parent/guardian of the dyad. This paper provides a detailed methodological account of this program. Discussion: The expected findings from this research will advance coaching literature, research, and practice on this topic by determining whether coaching and education are more effective than education alone at producing behaviour changes among a family unit. If proven effective, this approach may be applied more broadly through public health interventionists to parent and child populations in hopes of affecting change with both individuals and their families. Trial registration: ISRCTN ISRCTN69091372. Retrospectively registered
"Sport in Canada: A History" examines the influence of religion, politics, economy, the... more "Sport in Canada: A History" examines the influence of religion, politics, economy, the military, gender, race, and social class on sport. The narrative extends from initial contact between Europeans and Aboriginals through to the present day, focusing on the impact of technology, training, sport science, professional coaching, and massive government and corporate funding. Specific topical attention is given to the organization of sport in Montreal, case studies on the emergence on a national level of lacrose and baseball, significant sporting personalities, and to the idea of amateurism as an organizing principle in early Canadian sport. The book will also include coverage of the impact of leisure sport, and early institutions important to the development of the foundation of sport (taverns for example), as well as the issue of masculinity as a value system and its profound impact on sport in Canada.
This paper forms part of a panel presentation and discussion that re-evaluates the Summit Series ... more This paper forms part of a panel presentation and discussion that re-evaluates the Summit Series from a more critical perspective than the nostalgic rhetoric of the recent, 2012, 40th anniversary of the event. This part of the panel presentation will examine this question: What factors have served to enshrine the Series to the Mythic and Mono-mythic Levels? Evidence utilized includes game-films from the series; the collective rhetoric of secondary sources such as 27 Days in Sept, Face Off at the Summit, Hockey Nite in Moscow, The Days Canada Stood Still, Hockey Showdown, and Shooting for Glory; film analysis such as the 2006 Canada:Russia ’72 CBC documentary and Brett Kashmere’s video essay/documentary Valery’s Ankle; and selected newspaper media reflections/renderings of the games in the Series. The argument presented is that the Series encapsulated a whorl of deeply hallowed elements that coagulated into making the Series larger than myth. The paper explores issues such as the mythic process, archetypal patterns (Snow White and the 7 Canuck ‘Dwarfs’ and the evil-witch of Communism, for example), the graphic and the iconographic, narrative richness and meta-narrative (Esposito’s ‘rant’ compared to King Henry V’s St Crispin’s day exhortation to his troops preceding the Battle of Agincourt in Shakespeare’s King Henry V), and cultural context and texts such as the Cold War, movies like Deliverance and The Godfather, and the meaning of Foster Hewitt’s “Henderson Has Scored for Canada,” regarding the shot not-heard round the world. The significance of this paper to our understanding of sport history is that it will be rendered in a panel that looks critically at a watershed – or was it – event in Canadian sport. This paper and those of the other panelists will provide a unique set of perspectives on the Series beyond the realm of the endless rhetoric of nostalgia
Would it be heresy, hyperbole or honesty to refer to Jim Thorpe as the Lionel Conacher of the Uni... more Would it be heresy, hyperbole or honesty to refer to Jim Thorpe as the Lionel Conacher of the United States? Any attempt to compare these two athletes would be without purpose or merit. However, Canadian and American sportswriters in the 1920s delighted in such parallels in obvious efforts to add superlatives to Conacher's career. l Typically, the latter athlete was hailed as the "Jim Thorpe of Canada," but at least one American journalist was so im-pressed with Conacher's athletic prowess that he marshalled considerable evi-dence to refer to Lionel Conacher as the "world's greatest athlete." 2 Much more significant than attempts at comparing Conacher to Thorpe is the out-standing point of contrast between the two men. The name, Thorpe (even the sound of the word exudes the feeling of strength and power), is a household word, synonymous with athletic excellence, south and north of the forty-ninth parallel. The name, Conacher, is shrouded in the mystic...
International journal of evidence based coaching and mentoring, 2020
This qualitative study explored the coaching-related experiences of clients (parents who were ove... more This qualitative study explored the coaching-related experiences of clients (parents who were overweight/obese) and coaches who participated in a 3-month obesity intervention. Semistructured interviews were conducted at multiple time points and were audio-recorded and analysed by question and via inductive content analysis. Clients reported increased accountability, goal setting skills, awareness, and external support in relation to health behaviours. Coaches shared tools they utilised, insights from working with this population, and advice for future coaches. This research informs the client-coach relationship; insights from both parties will allow researchers to create effective programming for this population.
Canadian Journal of History of Sport, 1988