How Sports Mean Nothing- and Everything
Ian Mendes (TSN)
Secondary Research
The Healthy Flip Side of Being a Sports Fan
Lisa O'Neill Hill (CNN)
How Sports Mean Nothing- and Everything
Ian Mendes (TSN)
A mirror neuron, or cubelli neuron, is a neuron that fires both when an animal acts and when the animal observes the same action performed by another. Thus, the neuron "mirrors" the behavior of the other, as though the observer were itself acting. (The Scientific American)
Fans who identify with a local team have higher self-esteem, are less lonely and are no more aggressive as a group than nonsports fans, according to Wann.
"Pretty much any way you look at it, the more you identify with a local team, the more psychologically healthy you tend to be,"
Wann said fandom unites people at a sociological level.
"You have to remember it's just a game," Wann said. "The problem is that the fan is so helpless. The fan is so at the mercy of their team."
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“But what Craig Anderson accomplished Sunday night – a 37-save shutout in Edmonton in his first game back after the club announced his wife Nicholle has been diagnosed with cancer – moves to the top of the list of impressive goaltending performances in franchise history.”
Random regular season game in November, yet meant so much more….
Mirror Neurons
A mirror neuron, or cubelli neuron, is a neuron that fires both when an animal acts and when the animal observes the same action performed by another. Thus, the neuron "mirrors" the behavior of the other, as though the observer were itself acting. (The Scientific American)