Sporting events and management

This book explores the relationship between sports law, the Olympic Movement and human rights.

Sport Industry Research & Analysis offers a no-nonsense, straightforward approach to the study of research design and statistical analysis in the sport enterprise.

The 1984 Los Angeles Olympic Games stand as the most profitable and arguably the most important event in the history of the modern Olympic movement.

Despite the mythology of sport bringing people together and encouraging everyone to work collectively to success, modern sport remains a site of exclusionary practices that operate on a number of levels.

The spread of COVID-19 and the consequent pandemic since early 2020 have brought about unprecedented changes in all spheres of global life, creating a new sense of (in)security with social distancing, physical isolation, quarantine and lockdown becoming buzzwords to combat the disease.

Golf is big business around the world.

While societies shape the way their cities look and are represented, urban images, in turn, nurture and structure social relations in multiple ways.

In this highly original history of the world's most famous bicycle race, Christopher S.

A history of modern Spain told through one of world football's most intense rivalries Independent Sports Book of the Year Sunday TimesIt s Messi vs Ronaldo, it s Catalonia vs Castilla.

It is difficult to fully understand the role that sport plays in contemporary global society without understanding how and why governments, NGOs and other organizations formulate and implement policy relating to sport.

College Sports and Institutional Values in Competition interrogates the relationship between athletics and higher education, exploring how college athletics departments reflect many characteristics of their institutions and are also susceptible to the same challenges in delivering on their mission.

Sport and architecture are two elements of contemporary life that have a broad and profound impact on the world around us.

Research on Indigenous participation in sport offers many opportunities to better understand the political issues of equality, empowerment, self-determination and protection of culture and identity.

Since England's famous 1966 World Cup victory, Alf Ramsey has been regarded as the greatest of all British football managers.

Olympic skiing champion Nikki Stone shares her own inspirational story and those of Tommy Hilfiger, Steve Young, Lindsey Vonn, Lester Holt, and others .

This book introduces the fundamentals of sport governance, assuming no prior knowledge on the part of the reader.

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

Analyzing football as a cultural practice, this book investigates the connection between the sport and its built environment.

The Olympic Games is unquestionably the largest and most important sporting event in the world.

Global sporting events involve the creation, management and mediation of cultural meanings for consumption by massive media audiences.

Sport and Tourism: Globalization, Mobility and Identity marks a new era in sport tourism texts.

Soccer players and coaches alike admire the German national team for their combination of individual qualities and teamwork, leading to some of the most creative soccer being played during the 2014 World Championship.

Contemporary events management is a diverse and challenging field.

For decades, amateurism defined the ideals undergirding the Olympic movement.

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

The English Premier League (EPL) is one of the world's most valuable and high-profile sports leagues, with millions of fans around the globe.

Contemporary society is complex; governed and administered by a range of contradictory policies, practices and techniques.

Rich and his contributing authors provide a political and economic analysis of sports stadium construction in the United States-the impact it has on the sports industry itself and on the host communities in which stadiums and arenas are built.

Strategic Cultural Center Management focuses on private cultural centers and their operational preconditions.

New technologies mean that sports clubs and governing bodies are generating more data than ever to help manage their relationship with fans, their performance, and their income streams.

This volume argues for a more quantitative, economic and theoretical approach to sports history.

This volume offers new insight into an important and largely under-examined area of marine leisure and tourism: scuba diving tourism.

Though their primary concern, organizations in the creative industries don't only succeed or fail based on the exercise of their creative resources.

England has contributed some of the greatest players and most colourful characters to the rich history of the Lions, and never more so than in recent years.

This innovative and timely volume of essays critically interrogates the shared histories between sport and a variety of leisure, entertainment and cultural pursuits.

Arts management is no longer a resting place for enthusiastic amateurs or artists with insufficient talent to make the big time.

You would be mistaken in thinking the rivalry between Liverpool and Manchester United was only something that has existed in recent times.

Ancient Greece was the model that guided the emergence of many facets of the modern sports movement, including most notably the Olympics.

No single introductory book has until now captured the range of thought appropriate for scrutinizing the idea of leisure.

The idea of a 'leisure society' was in its heyday in the 1960s and 1970s, when it was predicted that the pattern of falling working hours which had been experienced in Western societies in the first half of the twentieth century would continue indefinitely.

The growing complexity and importance of sports and event marketing has pushed scholars and practitioners to apply sophisticated marketing thinking and applications to these topics.

Faced with a depleted planet and a series of connected crises, socially minded agents and entities within the world of culture and the arts are reacting from within.

Dropping the Torch: Jimmy Carter, the Olympic Boycott, and the Cold War offers a diplomatic history of the 1980 Olympic boycott.

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

From Major League Baseball to English soccer's Premier League, all successful contemporary professional sports leagues include a wide diversity of nationalities and ethnicities within their playing and coaching rosters.

This book explores the lived experience of cultural entrepreneurship examining the challenges associated with cultural labour including the insecurities of managing precarious working conditions.

Australian journalist Will Swanton has spent the last year on the trail of Roger Federer, Rafael Nadal and Novak Djokovic for his sixth book, The Slams.

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.

The right to participate in sports and competitive athletics is more than an issue of fair play--it's a matter of human rights.

For fans of books by Jimmy Bullard, Paul Merson, The Sidemen and the F2 FreestylersMessi might be the most skilful, Ronaldo might have the best shot, but according to FIFA it's 16-stone Adebayo Akinfenwa who's the strongest footballer in the world.