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1 Aug 2008Over the past 40 years sport has gained credibility as a field of academic study. This is evident in the expansion of participant and spectator sport worldwide, supported by an ever-increasing range of sport related programmes offered at colleges and universities and ever-increasing research opportunities.
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30 Apr 2011In Handley Cross, an early Victorian sporting novel, Mr.