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The definition of physical activity in the literature on sports practice is highly heterogeneous. This article provides evidence of the extent to which the inclusion of walking, which is one of the most frequent types of physical activity, and the minimum frequency used to consider a person a practitioner affect the conclusions about the correlates of physical activity practice and frequency. To this end, we compared participation and frequency models by applying different measures of physical activity. We found that the activities included under the definition of physical activity play a...Read more

Fantasy sport has rapidly developed into a multi-billion dollar industry in recent years, with daily fantasy sport (DFS) responsible for $18.9 billion in annual fantasy sport consumption revenue (Fantasy Sports Trade Association, 2017). Efforts to examine the drivers of DFS-specific participation remain scarce, with scholars having reported on the motives of traditional fantasy sport (TFS) consumers and hybrid consumers (i.e., those who consume both TFS and DFS) (Billings, Ruihley, & Yang, 2016; Ruihley, Billings, & Rae, 2014). The authors conducted three studies to develop the...Read more