Sporting events and management

The development of both elite, high performance sport and mass participation, grassroots-level sport are central concerns for governments and sports governing bodies.

This book provides an interdisciplinary collection of theoretical and methodological contributions critically exploring the connections between leisure and wellbeing.

Sport Governance provides a comprehensive guide to the practical application of governance principles to amateur and professional sport organisations operating at the community, state/provincial, national, and international levels.

This book examines contemporary issues of security at sports mega-events (SMEs).

Since 1858 cricketers from all over the world have dreamed of performing beneath the unchanging gaze of Father Time.

'Football history at its best' SCOTLAND ON SUNDAY'Hugely moving.

Creative Arts Marketing third edition is a long-awaited update of a classic and influential text.

The New York Yankees are Major League Baseball's most renowned and successful franchise.

Oscar Robertson is known as one of the best players in NBA history, a triple-double machine who set the stage for the versatility of today's NBA superstars like LeBron James, Russell Westbrook, and Draymond Green.

Now in a fully revised and updated fourth edition, Event Management in Sport, Recreation, and Tourism provides a comprehensive theoretical and practical framework for planning and managing events at all levels, from smaller local events to mega-events.

Graeme Souness is a Glasgow Rangers icon, and a Liverpool legend in the same bracket as Kenny Dalglish, Steven Gerrard and Jamie Carragher.

The COVID-19 pandemic has had an impact on every aspect of our social, cultural, and commercial lives, including the world of sport.

Sunday Times Sports Book of the Year 2015Sometimes you love a football team not only for their strengths, the splendour of their play and the appealing thrust of their character, but also the haunting possibility that their best hopes may never be fulfilled.

Advances in technology have always had a significant impact on sport.

This new edition of a widely adopted textbook equips students with a comprehensive understanding of the sport industry.

This book contains an international collection of essays by leading philosophers of sport on the ethics and philosophy of the Olympic Games.

This book examines the new geopolitical economy of football, exploring the intersection of money, politics, and power in the world's most popular sport.

This is the first book to present a critical analysis of the concept of the European Model of Sport (EMS).

Fantasy sport has become big business.

The Management of Event Operations: project management, planning and customer satisfaction provides an introduction to the management of operations for the event planner and venue provider.

Outdoor adventure activities are becoming an increasingly popular part of physical education programs.

Olympic Stadia provides a comprehensive account of the development of stadia including but not limited to: developments in running tracks, the introduction of lighting, improvements in spectator viewing standards and the introduction of roofs.

This book looks at how sport and sports organisations have had to innovate during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Innovative Marketing Communications for Events Management provides students and event managers with a complete insight into the strategic and innovative marketing of events of all scales and nature.

This book explores the intersection of contemporary sport, advertising, promotional culture and wider society.

Of all winter sports, none is so widely watched and commented upon by the media as figure skating, which is often considered the Winter Olympics' centerpiece.

Performing arts centers (PACs) are an integral part of the cultural and creative industries, significantly influencing the cultural, social, and economic vitality of communities around the world.

This challenging new study examines gender and sexuality in relation to the 'roving colonialism' of sport mega-events.

This book offers new, multidisciplinary perspectives on esports, one of the most rapidly growing sectors in the sports and leisure industries.

The Big Red Machine dominated major league baseball in the 1970s, but the Cincinnati franchise began its climb to that pinnacle in 1961, when an unlikely collection of cast-offs and wannabes stunned the baseball world by winning the National League pennant.

Highly practical and engaging, Sports Marketing equips students with the skills, techniques, and tools they need to be successful marketers in any sporting environment.

The Oval in Kennington, south London with its instantly recognisable gasholders is one of sport's most iconic and popular venues.

This innovative textbook explains how sport and leisure organisations can become more entrepreneurial in order to achieve sustainable growth.

Rodney Pattisson MBE, the three-time Olympic medallist and winner of fourteen world and European champtionships, is an iconic figure within the sailing world.

The Routledge Handbook of Sport Communication offers a comprehensive and in-depth survey of the contemporary discipline of sport communication.

The global geopolitics of sport is being transformed in and by East Asia.

In this provocative new book, Tony Blackshaw argues that Leisure Studies is in a quiet but deep state of crisis.

Design for Outdoor Recreation takes a detailed look at all aspects of design of facilities needed by visitors to outdoor recreation destinations.

Sport is often seen as an indicator of the civic maturity of a community, an aspect of the rights of citizens to health, education and social integration.

Sport and Entrepreneurship combines perspectives derived from business history and sports history, focusing on the important but relatively unexplored relationship of entrepreneurship and sport.

This book offers a rare chance to understand how sport and architecture come together to create an outstanding building type - a symbol of our times.

Outdoor adventure activities are becoming an increasingly popular part of physical education programs.

The Olympic Sports Economy incorporates exclusive case studies and reports from sports management conferences to illustrate the most important business practices and trends of the Olympics today.

Through the contributions of women working in the creative industries, this timely book explores the role of creativity in their lives, the experiences that have positively contributed to and supported their creativity and their work, as well as how gendered considerations intersect with their involvement in the cultural sphere.

Encoding the Olympics assembles a uniquely representative international team of media experts to provide a comprehensive review of the global impact of media and cultural communications associated with the Beijing 2008 Olympics.

Match-fixing represents a greater potential threat to the integrity of sport than doping.

This is the first book to investigate the significance of Brexit for sport, with a particular focus on the regulatory and legal challenges that it poses, and the economic and political stresses that are likely to follow in its wake.

For as long as she can remember, Olympic gold medalist Sanya Richards-Ross's life has been measured in seconds.

Sporting mega events are playing an increasingly important role in the governance of community regeneration and development across the globe.

This is the book which landed the author in the Guinness Book of Records for his record-breaking 20,000-mile tour of every Football League Ground in England.