Book description
The Business of Sports, Second Edition is a comprehensive collection of readings that focus on the multibillion-dollar sports industry and the dilemmas faced by today’s sports business leaders. It covers professional, Olympic, and collegiate sports, and highlights the major issues that impact each of these broad areas. The Second Edition provides insight from a variety of stakeholders in the industry and covers the major business disciplines of management, marketing, finance, information technology, accounting, ethics, and law. Each chapter features concise introductions, a broad range of focused readings and targeted discussion questions, and graphs and tables to convey relevant financial data and other statistics. Important Notice: The digital edition of this book is missing some of the images or content found in the physical edition.
Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Reading Credits
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Part I: Professional Sports
- Chapter 1 Ownership
- Chapter 2 Leagues: Structure and Background
- Chapter 3 Global Leagues
- Chapter 4 Emerging and Niche Leagues
- Chapter 5 Revenue Sharing and Competitive Balance
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Chapter 6 Teams
- Overview
- Impact of Star Players on Gate Receipts
- Ticket Pricing
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Microperspectives
- Globalisation and Sports Branding: The Case of Manchester United
- Consolidated Balance Sheets at June 30, 2009 and 2008, and Consolidated Statements of Operations, Consolidated Statements of Members’ Equity (Deficit), and Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows for the Fiscal Years Ended June 30, 2009, 2008 and 2007, Including the Notes Thereto
- Nets Sports and Entertainment, LLC and Subsidiaries
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Chapter 7 Stadiums and Arenas
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Financing and Economic Background
- The Stadium Game
- Sports and the City: How to Curb Professional Sports Teams’ Demands for Free Public Stadiums
- The Name Is the Game in Facility Naming Rights
- Testimony of Brad R. Humphreys, Associate Professor, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, On Public Financing for Construction and Operation of Sports Stadiums and Economic Revitalization and Development in Urban America Before the One Hundred Tenth Congress of the United States House of Representatives, Committee on Oversight and Government Reform Subcommittee on Domestic Policy, Thursday, March 29, 2007
- Testimony of Neil Demause, Subcommittee on Domestic Policy, Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, March 29, 2007
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Financing and Economic Background
- Chapter 8 Media
- Chapter 9 Labor Matters: Unions
- Chapter 10 Labor Matters: Athlete Compensation
- Chapter 11 Sports Franchise Valuation
- Part II: Olympic Sports
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Part III: College Sports
- Chapter 13 History and Structure
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Chapter 14 The NCAA and Conference Affiliation
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Financial Overview
- The Business of College Sports and the High Cost of Winning
- Unbound: How a Supreme Court Decision Tore Apart Football Television and Rippled Through 25 Years of College Sports
- The 2009 NCAA State of the Association Speech, as Delivered by Wallace I. Renfro, NCAA Vice President and Senior Advisor to President Myles Brand, January 15, 2009
- NCAA 2008–2009 Revenue Distribution Plan
- National Collegiate Athletic Association and Subsidiaries
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Financial Overview
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Chapter 15 Member Institutions
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Overview of Institutional Impact
- Intercollegiate Athletics and the American University: A University President’s Perspective
- University of Michigan Department of Athletics Operating Budgets, 2009–2010
- Faculty Perceptions of Intercollegiate Athletics Survey, Executive Summary, Prepared for the Knight Commission’s Faculty Summit on Intercollegiate Athletics, Oct. 15, 2007
- Direct Impacts Of Intercollegiate Athletics
- Indirect Impacts of Intercollegiate Athletics
- Fundraising
- Emphasis on Intercollegiate Athletics
- Operational Issues
- Tax Issues
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Overview of Institutional Impact
- Chapter 16 Gender Equity
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Chapter 17 Amateurism and Reform
- The Ideal
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Reform
- Symposium: Sports Law as a Reflection of Society’s Laws and Values: Pay for Play for College Athletes: Now, More Than Ever
- Advice for the Next Jeremy Bloom: An Elite Athlete’s Guide to NCAA Amateurism Regulations
- The Game of Life
- A Call to Action: Reconnecting College Sports and Higher Education
- Quantitative and Qualitative Research with Football Bowl Subdivision University Presidents on the Costs and Financing of Intercollegiate Athletics: Report of Findings and Implications, October 2009
- Part IV: Sociological Considerations
- Index
Product information
- Title: The Business of Sports, 2nd Edition
- Author(s):
- Release date: October 2010
- Publisher(s): Jones & Bartlett Learning
- ISBN: 9781449632618
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