Profiles of Sport Industry Professionals: The People who Make the Games HappenJones & Bartlett Learning, 2001 - 485 pages The sports field is becoming increasingly complex and multifaceted, and sports is big business. Students will learn how their careers evolved, how they prepared, and what their failures and successes have been. The editors of this unique text compiled interviews of a sport agent, high school athletic director, sport attorney, fitness trainer, ice rink manager, reporter, and many more |
Contents
Chapter 1High School Sport | 1 |
Chapter 2College Athletics | 29 |
Chapter 3International Sport | 57 |
Chapter 4Legal Aspects of Sport | 87 |
Chapter 5Professional Sport | 117 |
Chapter 6Facility Management | 147 |
Chapter 7Event Management | 177 |
Chapter 8Media and Public Relations | 211 |
Chapter 10Sporting Goods and Licensed Products | 279 |
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Chapter 11Health and Fitness Industry | 309 |
Chapter 12Recreational Sports | 339 |
Sports Commissions | 365 |
Chapter 14The Academic World of Sport Management | 391 |
Sport Marketing | 421 |
Chapter 16Sport Governance | 453 |
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