By a simple food-in/energy-out model, a run on the treadmill or swim in the pool should make you want to eat more. But recent findings have suggested that exercise can actually help to slow overeating. And a new study presents evidence that the body’s physiologic response to exercise can help retune the nervous system’s cues and make the body feel less hungry, rather than more so.

Hunger is a complex sensation, but it is determined in part by neurons located in the hypothalamus, which send signals to the brain telling it that you’re either hungry or sated.

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South Williamsport, Pa. — This week, after notching its only victory at the Little League World Series, the team representing Europe went to an interview room under Lamade Stadium. Only a few reporters turned out to speak with the manager, Gary Harrington, and two of his players.

Still, thousands probably saw Harrington’s grin and heard him say, “Our goal was to come here and have fun, which we definitely did.” The interview was available live on broadband. It was carried by an emerging Web site, based in Alpharetta, Ga., called Youth Sports Live.

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People love sports traditions because they unite an entire fanbase. Traditions transcend individuals and connect the owners to the players to the fans to the security guards.

Each tradition is special in its own way. Whether it was started long ago or came about by accident or just by chance, each tradition keeps a special place in sports fans’ hearts and remains an expression of loyalty to their team, or to athletics in general.

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The latest issue of  The International Journal of Sport and Society includes:

• Meaning of Inclusion throughout the History of the Paralympic Games and Movement by Gregor Wolbring, David Legg and Frank Stahnisch.
• “Effect of a Program by using some Techniques of Attention on the Kinetic Expectation Level of the Basketball” by Ahmed Abdul Allah El Roby.
• There’s No Balls in Derby: Roller Derby as a Unique Gendered Sports Context by Madeline Breeze.
• The End of the Affair: After 47 Years Netball New Zealand Establishes a Relationship with a New Broadcasting Partner by Margaret Henley.
• Sports Participation and Delinquent Peer Associations: Implications for Individual Behavior among Minority Girls by Matthew J. Taylor, Tara L. Shoemaker, Desiree Z. Welch and Maurice Endsley Jr..
• Leadership Styles and Sex of Coaches: What do Athletes Prefer? By Danielle N. Grenier and Susan E. Mason.
• Between a Rock and a Hard Place: Depictions of Women in Climbing Magazines by Brad Howard and Adam Cochran.

In recognition of the important role of referees, the international advisory board acknowledges all referees who have refereed papers as an ‘Associate Editor’ in the volume of the journal they have contributed to.

If you would like to referee papers submitted to The International Journal of Sport and Society, please email journals@sportandsociety.com, with your professional details, areas of expertise and contact details. If we feel you are qualified and we require refereeing for papers within your expertise, we will contact you.

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By Tim Parks, in The New York Review of Books

For any practitioner of Zen who imagines he has achieved a state of detached equanimity, the ultimate test must be to watch his national side play at soccer’s World Cup. That England’s team is dull, I tell myself after the first game, I can handle; that they are truly dire, I reflect after the second and third, is perhaps only par for the course. When, in their first knockout match, England goes 2–0 down to a fluent and attractive Germany, it seems the perfect opportunity for resignation and acceptance.

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